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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The White Tank.

The grey female that I put in with Mr. White and the three white females is in her 2nd cycle. It's weird, but it's like there's some sort of fish racism going on in that tank. I'm not sure if the grey fish is just keeping to herself or if the white fish are isolating her, but she spends a lot of time hanging out in the corner of the tank.

Since she's gone into her 2nd cycle (I can see her egg canal is swollen again), Mr. White has taken to pestering her, trying to show off.

He's moved all the rocks around in the bottom of the tank, not as much as Mr. Blue used to, but enough to notice. He's staked out a corner of the tank as his "territory" and chases everyone else out of there. He herds the grey female out to the middle of the tank and circles her, but she acts like he has bad body odor or something and can't get away from him fast enough.

So, yeah, the breeding thing is not going so well.