Female dashing about in breeding tank

[tannerdorman]

<img src=images/icon_speech_ugh.gif border=0 width=23 height=15 alt=Insert Speech Icon: Ugh> My female is still full with eggs but now she is starting to have randome 5 minute jolts where she swims around like a corkscrew or a torpedo. then she will lay on the floor of the tank and become all zig zaged. what is this?

[Myron Tay]

Hi there

Believe that your female is stressed. Should be alright after some time. If this continues after a day, suggest you take her out, re-condition her and try again after that.

[tannerdorman]

now shes doing it all the time and she is back in her part of the tank

[tannerdorman]

My female passed away 2 days ago so i am going to a local asian fish retail today to enhance my breeding stock.

I was thinking about keeping my male and getting another male and then buying 2 females and separate the males in glass chimnies inside of a ten gallon (half filled) and put the two females in the ten gallon tank so they can swim around the males that are in the chimnies. The females can get plump with eggs and the males can build their bubblenests.

[tannerdorman]

Is this O.K.?

[Myron Tay]

Hi there

I would suggest conditioning the male and female separately (i.e. out of sight of each other) for some time (at least a week or two) before letting them have sight of each other.