Aaron789

Na I haven't measured them yet but the two bigger ones would be 10 or so, the smaller one was in the cave today with the other one I thought was a female guarding it, so I might wait a couple days and see if anything happens,
Thanks for the help so far

Yea I'm fairly certain that the first is a female using the nose method, and seems to have quite a chunky body compared to the male and also has only two bristles on the front of the mouth. Is it possible for a female to be more dominant than a male? Cheers for all the help so far as well

I'm fairly certain it's a female, which is why the behaviour is confusing, the first pic is her the second him and third the latest one i got which is female aswel I think ,
This is why the behaviour is so confusing, maybe the male just isn't up to the task I think,

Cheers for the tips, is it unusual though for the female to occupy the cave a block the male from entering, would that mean they aren't a good pair? Also would adding other males or removing that female make any difference do you think?

Thanks for the advice everyone,
No luck as of yet, although I have re arranged the tank a bit and upped my filtration and amount of drift wood and plants, they seem happier tho, also bought a young female, yea not the best idea but I thought it was worth a go, still having the problem of the main female blocking the cave from the male, I had 2 caves in there a larger square one and he didn't seem to like the cave much but the new female does seem to follow him around quite a bit, I have been considering moving the original female out of the tank into another one or moving a common male bn in in the hope of the pep getting a little more testosterone going and get the desire to breed.
Also I have been considering changing the water from tap to rainwater hoping that it might help having softer lower ph water, but I'm not sure how difficult it will be to do because i don't kill them with a spike of some kind,
Any advice is always appreciated
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