The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

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PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

Re: aggression of sphaerichthys vaillanti

#4151
Jacob
Participant

One male died, the only explanation since all other fish look fine is that it was mouthbrooding and that stressed it.
I don’t even know if it was that male but there are only two and one was seemingly mouthbrooding for a few weeks. Never saw any babies but there are so many fish in this tank they easily could have been eaten right away.
Or the male was hiding and not eating for some other reason, but it looked like mouthbrooding.
Can that process really stress them enough to kill them not that long after?
There were several days after it stopped apparently mouthbrooding and when it died, almost a week.
Never looked sick and no other fish shows stress.