SparKy697
Aquarium Advice Addict
This morning I watched something I had not seen before. Two SAEs engaging in a “dance” where they positioned themselves head to tail and nipped on the backs of each other while they spun in a violent circle around each other. Then they would stop and and align themselves head to head, bodies parallel to each other and fight to nip at the top of each other behind the head but in front of the dorsal fin. While this was all going on, the black stripe that runs down their sides was all but gone! Faded to almost nonexistence.
This all went on for nearly 10 minutes over the exact piece of rock on the bottom of the tank
Everything I read says that these fish have never been known to breed in captivity, so is this just a territorial dispute? The third SAE kept it’s distance way on the other end of the tank, but usually they are all three inseparable.
Thoughts?
This all went on for nearly 10 minutes over the exact piece of rock on the bottom of the tank
Everything I read says that these fish have never been known to breed in captivity, so is this just a territorial dispute? The third SAE kept it’s distance way on the other end of the tank, but usually they are all three inseparable.
Thoughts?
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