First off, it is frustratingly difficult to find information about yellow lab behaviors, esp breeding. Searches reveal youtube videos of the actual spawning and not behavior beforehand, and those cliche sales pages that say random wrong info like "they aren't territorial and can be kept with community fish." Anyway.
I noticed my bright male yellow lab acting odd tonight, and was too dumbfounded like -->
<-- to grab my camera for a picture. He was coming to the front of the tank, opening his mouth like he was puking (or shouting, wait for it), then he'd sort of shimmy backward and turn, rince and repeat. First thought is he's talking trash because he knows I'm out there and I'm the feeder (hence my shouting comment lulz). Then I thought "snap, maybe he's displaying for the female in the tank? Or maybe he's dying =0. I wonder about displaying because the female would do something similar but more inverted and it looked like her vent was swollen. Not like the chest of that poor guy from "Aliens"or anything tho. The male would periodically chase away my red zebra and zebra/lab hybrid, then chase her a bit.
They've stopped now but does anyone know what was up? More specifically, how do labs act BEFORE spawning starts?
Lastly, does bearding seem to indicate a desire to breed? My other male is getting his Gerard butler on with a five o'clock shadow. Yeah, I know ratio is bad, I'm rehoming my second male friday.
Sorry for long post
I noticed my bright male yellow lab acting odd tonight, and was too dumbfounded like -->
<-- to grab my camera for a picture. He was coming to the front of the tank, opening his mouth like he was puking (or shouting, wait for it), then he'd sort of shimmy backward and turn, rince and repeat. First thought is he's talking trash because he knows I'm out there and I'm the feeder (hence my shouting comment lulz). Then I thought "snap, maybe he's displaying for the female in the tank? Or maybe he's dying =0. I wonder about displaying because the female would do something similar but more inverted and it looked like her vent was swollen. Not like the chest of that poor guy from "Aliens"or anything tho. The male would periodically chase away my red zebra and zebra/lab hybrid, then chase her a bit. They've stopped now but does anyone know what was up? More specifically, how do labs act BEFORE spawning starts?
Lastly, does bearding seem to indicate a desire to breed? My other male is getting his Gerard butler on with a five o'clock shadow. Yeah, I know ratio is bad, I'm rehoming my second male friday.
Sorry for long post
