Very early this morning I was able to observe a very intense courtship display of my pahuensis-pair.
I would like to show some photos – and I hope you excuse the photos being no brilliant close-ups. The pahuensis – especially the male – absolutely don’t like the photoflash, if I go to near. I didn’t want to interrupt the mating and thus took the photos from a small distance.
He then moved to his cave to swim sideways back down to her repeatedly, slightly tilted towards her, to show off his “broadside”.