I will have to wait for them to breed again and pay closer attention so I can get more useful information for knowing which species it is. Then I can start a thread in the US section about identifying this locally available parosphromenus.
Right now the male is guarding the nest alone and is sometimes leaving it to harass the female. Seems like territoriality and defense and not breeding, though the male is in full color and the female is lighter than usual if not in breeding color.
One fry swam away from the nest and was retrieved by the male. Seems like many fry or partially formed fry (wriggling but immobile) dissappeared, but there is a large quantity of new eggs on the same leaf. He is guarding that one fry or more that I haven’t seen, and some new eggs simultaneously. Or he hid those eggs and moved them but I doubt that.
They’ve shown head down courtship.
Also, the other pair is not eating. They look and act less lively than the pair that bred, and have lost some weight. There are no other signs of sickness other than not eating and somewhat different behavior. Do they stop eating if water conditions are wrong or is it usually from disease? Edit- the male has made a few motions like he ate bbs or tried to eat something off a sponge filter. Still not much eating between the two of them.