[quote=”Stefanie” post=1706]
Now I saw these two bigger paros in a hidden place of the tank (not the “territory”) interacting in a conspicuous way: The fish circled around each other in a soft, dancing way, sometimes pressing their bodies lengthwise against each other, making “wavy”, snakelike movements. Their colours didn’t change perceptibly while doing this. They did this for minutes (stopped, when I fetched my camera … as one could except :S )
Do you know this kind of behaviour? What does it mean? (I have a suspicion, but I’ll wait for your answers first)[/quote]
I’d like to pick up this old thread again.
Two days ago, I saw two very young P. ornaticauda slowly turning around, probably in the same way as described by Stephanie, but without touching each other.
They allowed me to take some pictures. Unfortunately they shot away at high speed when I turned my camera into video mode.
I’ve often witnessed such behavior before, between other juveniles and also between adult females. I can’t immediately remember that I’ve ever seen parosphromenus males, performing such slow dances, or sometimes just hanging more or less parallell to each other (although this might perhaps already be considered as a slightly different behavior.
Stephanie, you obviously had an idea about it but hoped to get some other points of view. What was your approach?