Bubba643
Aquarium Advice Freak
So I had a smaller year old (what I thought was female) EBA in my 60 gallon tank. I then came across a large (also what I thought was a female) who was jammed into a 90 gallon tall display tank at my LFS with about 5 full grown plecostomus and about 30-40 different types of midsize community fish. Obviously cruelly overstocked, she looked miserable so I decided to rescue her and add her as a tank mate for my other EBR. Immediately after adding much to my surprise I started seeing pairing and spawning behavior (shaking displays, vigorously cleaning potential spawning locations, etc). It's been about a week or so and the behavior is building and my smaller EBA has gotten darker and bright blue while becoming more and more vigilant in chasing off the one other juvenile peacock I had in there. They rarely leave each other, no eggs yet but being my first experience with Acara I had a few questions.
One, am I right to assume they are male and female at this point? I assume they wouldn't behave this way if they were both females.
Two, if they are a pair, which is which? This species seems harder than most in seeing differences without venting. I've watched every YouTube video I can find and even seeing a female actually lay eggs I can't notice a difference physically between the male also pictured in the video.
Here are pics of both of mine what do you guys think?
EBA #1 rescue
One, am I right to assume they are male and female at this point? I assume they wouldn't behave this way if they were both females.
Two, if they are a pair, which is which? This species seems harder than most in seeing differences without venting. I've watched every YouTube video I can find and even seeing a female actually lay eggs I can't notice a difference physically between the male also pictured in the video.
Here are pics of both of mine what do you guys think?
EBA #1 rescue