Sunday, March 1, 2009

Waiting for spawn


This morning woke up early thinking my fishes will spawn...yesterday after water change, there were signs of chasing here and there....guess it is a false alarm. So for the next few days I will separate the males and females again into 2 different tubs and absolutely no feeding at all. My logic is that there are 2 basic instincts......(1) hunt for food to eat to survive (2)hunt for sex to ensure continuity of the species. IMHO and I am still experimenting.....if you starve the fishes, male and female...it will trigger their desire initially to hunt for food....the prey drive will be heightened considerably and this continous hunt for food with no desired result will also trigger and tilt the balance for the other basic instinct and that is to hunt for sex.

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