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Hello, at saturday I have pleasure to watching my paros spawning. They breed in a black plastic film cointainer. Around this coinainer there were plenty of leafs and I know that my paros prefer leafs for spawnning. But in this case they spawn in film cointainer ( very bad picture attached – light spot under the male are eggs :)) I’m was worry becouse all eggs are on the bottom of container – The spawn was ended , female swimm away and male left alone… Next day (yesterday) I want to see eggs, I take my little torch and…there was no eggs inside, Male stays close to container but I thought that eggs are eaten.. Today I decided to move this container little far form front glass and I discover that above leaf next to container ( about 5 cm) there are egss! “sticked” to that leaf 😉 So he must transfered eggs after spawn ! But this is not all 🙂 When I moved container he was little confused but he finally find his eggs… And he started to transfered them to this container!!!! He transfered eggs in mouth and he stick them to container roof 🙂 It is so fascinating! He is doing this right now so I’m going to watch this..;) Greetings!
Martin, this is a nice description of a well-known behaviour. It does not happen with each spawning that the eggs are being transferred to another place, but it is not a rare event. And sometimes they are transferred a second time and – perhaps – a third. Sometimes even larvae are transferred in this manner. This tranfer often happens in tanks with more than one cave, or with many leaves that are cave-like. Mostly, in the small breeding-tanks of experienced breeders only one cave is offered and readily accepted. If there is no alternative, then there is no choice for the pair and the male. And they don’t seem to feel uneasy.
Some species are more used to this transferring of the eggs than others; we have often observed it with parvulus and ornaticauda, but less often with others.
Your pictures give us nice insights into the breeding behaviour. And then it is not of great importance if they are not of the best quality. But perhaps you could post such a “bad” photo smaller than usual; that would be sufficient to identify the important detail that you want to show us.
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