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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

gutted mate....!

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

R.I.P.

Sorry to hear, hope you get an other fem spawning again soon.

Hi jo, so VERY sorry for your loss!

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

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.

Paul

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.

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