I moved the nagyi-pair to a fresh tank today. I got this advice at the IGL-Forum because it was suspected that I had too many snails in the old tank, due to organic overload. I tried to trap the snails first, but neither a fish food tab or a piece of cucumber lured many snails. So it’s not quite clear whether the “too many snails theory” was right – but the fish had been in the tank since last November and I thought it to be an opportunity to clean the tank and remove some mistakes of this first set up.
They had been courting the whole morning (see pictures at the P. nagyi-Thread), again using the little film canister as a cave. It was very easy to catch them – I only fished the cave out, using a water bowl. The fish didn’t leave the cave for one minute, they stayed in it during the whole period of acclimation. The female only darted out when I put them into their new tank. But soon they were spawning again!
There already has been a small clutch of eggs when I moved the cave. If the bigger yellowish globes that can be seen are young snails again ….. I can’t change it. Maybe they have already been sitting in the cave and I moved them too. In the IGL-forum there were different opinions about these bigger globes – some thought it to be snails, some said no – and even if, that such snails were much to small to harm the clutch.
I’ll have to wait and see ……..