Nervous behavior
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One thing I find very interesting is that as soon someone comes close to the aquarium they hide, but do react very greedy when you feed them.
They do stick together, they have a very strong shoaling behaviour.
I do have strong lights, maybe that is what makes them nervous?Regards, Dusko.
Mine react exactly the same way mate. I think it is the strong lighting. Mine have 46W over them in a 25litre tank.
when i first good mine they were really shy (1st/2nd week) but now thett are fine always swimming around but my tanks low light so light might make a difference (30 watt over 14 uk gallons)
chris
mine stay in their shoal all the time.
when the scissor tailed raboras and dwarf neon rainbow fish were in there with them, the scissors stayed at the back of the tank swimming lengths back and forth, so the galaxies were forced to the front. now the scissors have been moved to a diff tank to leave the galaxies to procreate they have decided to huddle in the plants at the back. dont see them much anymore!
they are great community fish though and got on well with the other fish that were in there.
they dont even fight among each other and i have a mixture of males and females.
they seem fairly hardy as i’ve only had one death and that was cos it got stuck under a stone, i released it as soon as i saw it (no idea how long he was stuck for though :cry: ), then next day it vanished. also had an ammonia spike and they seemed unharmed by it.
tan
Mine stay in a corner in the back of the tank unless:
– they are being fed
– I switch off the air-driven sponge filterI wonder if they prefer perfectly still water and the filter/bubbles/noise is also putting them off.
Has anyone tried keeping them in a tank without a pump running, or switching the pump off for periods of the day to encourage breeding?
@zzyzx wrote:
Mine stay in a corner in the back of the tank unless:
– they are being fed
– I switch off the air-driven sponge filterI wonder if they prefer perfectly still water and the filter/bubbles/noise is also putting them off.
Has anyone tried keeping them in a tank without a pump running, or switching the pump off for periods of the day to encourage breeding?
good point! i’d not thought of this! be interesting to know if those who have bred them had air bubbles (filter or pump) stirring up a current.
@tan wrote:
@zzyzx wrote:
Mine stay in a corner in the back of the tank unless:
– they are being fed
– I switch off the air-driven sponge filterI wonder if they prefer perfectly still water and the filter/bubbles/noise is also putting them off.
Has anyone tried keeping them in a tank without a pump running, or switching the pump off for periods of the day to encourage breeding?
good point! i’d not thought of this! be interesting to know if those who have bred them had air bubbles (filter or pump) stirring up a current.
My breeding tank has a box filter with a constant stream of bubbles. Doesn’t bother them in the slightest.
Well I’m pleased to report the following:
This morning I saw actual spawning happening, AND I saw two free-swimming fry as well.
The spawning seemed to start a few minutes after I switched their light on this morning. This has always got the male going – he darts all around the aqaurium quite quickly for a few minutes after the light comes on, but this morning the females were darting too, and after only a few minutes I saw them actually doing the “clench” thing in the java moss and grass I have growing in the tank. Some VERY tiny orange things were on the grass aftewards, but I’m not sure if that was sand/dirt that was already there or eggs (and there were only 2).
Yesterday was the day I first saw the first fry swimming about, and yesterday I also added 3 chemicals, which may (or may not) have caused the fish to more actively breed (they’re really going at it like rabbits today): Liquifry, TetraAqua Nitrate minus (my tap water has 50ppm nitrate, and I’ve never gotten it lower, so I added some of this in hopes of getting rid of some thread algae I have, and also I added some hair algae remover. As I said, I’ve not empirically measured their courtship behaviour, so not sure if they’re REALLY spawning more actively this morning, but it sure seems that way, and also, it could have nothing to do with the chemicals, but I’ll put it out there to see what others notice.
wow! well done!!! hope someone can film the spawning one time as i’ve no idea what i’m looking for!! i’ve seen them do a juddery shaky thing before, but not quite sure what that was all about! lets hope this is the 1st of many spawnings for you!
tanmy cpd’s are also very shy. any movement outside the tank they are straight back into their hide outs. i find the best time to watch these gorgous fish, is at night wen it is dark and the tank light is still on.
i just thought this was because to 2 main reasons:
1. not a lot of cover in the tank yet so they dont feel very safe when going out into open water2. mine are wild caught; wouldnt you be cautous if you were taken from your home and placed in an aquarium!
dont think much of it, just people look at me funny when i say i dont see them very often, they cant understand it but i still LOVE them!
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