How much can you bend a fish : ?

Just look at these photos of small paro-males when they embrace the females during the actual mating, – and you will see how much the male and female can bend around each other in mating – it is quite impressive if you have the luck to see it or catch it on photo.

Also impressive is how the male, after the female have produced the egg, will bend it body so as to catch the eggs on his side, before together with the female, putting them in the bubblenest cave which he has build for this purpose.

Photos Olivier Perrin 1. P. alfredi 2. P. parvulus