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female died laying eggs

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I'm totally devastated, what would have been my first spawn in 2.5 years (2nd in total) has ended in disaster. The female was trapped for a few days then today i had a wee look and noticed she didn't move and was looking very pale, on closer inspection turned out she died with 2 eggs hanging out of her and her fins were a bit messed up aswell. I had a hard job getting the body out as the male still thought she was alive and wouldn't leave the cave.

To have failed spawn is fair enough but loosing a female zeb at breeding age.....sad is not the word, anyway i'm off to perform a zeb funeral .

Hopefully i won't have to wait another 2.5 years :cry:
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gutted mate....! :cry:
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:cry: :cry: :cry:
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very sad,i have a zeb die on me aswell but it was young,sorry for your loss even more so as it was mature breeding age,any zeb death is a very sad
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R.I.P.

Sorry to hear, hope you get an other fem spawning again soon.
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Hi jo, so VERY sorry for your loss! :cry:
These are beautiful little babes!
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Thanks everyone, its just one of those things that can't be helped. Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar thing happen I know this cannot be prevented but I am curious as to what killed her, laying the eggs or perhaps the male got a bit over excited and killed her.

any thoughts
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I have had only one successful spawning thus far and the female died a few days after the babies were out of the cave. She looked fine (no signs of fighting) so I have no idea what happened. There were no changes in water conditions to explain this and the babies and surviving male continued to thrive.

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i think just like human. people die sometime in the old day due to difficulty of giving birth. nowadays those cases are gone. (better technology) there always a risk everytime they try to lay eggs i guess. :?
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Jo
I have just gone through what you went through a short while ago. It's tragic but in my case she had given life to a least 42 others.

It's just hell of a way to die tho :(
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