I originally had obtained a pair of B. pallifina from JDAquatics some months back, and they successfully spawned within a month or so. Unfortunately, the male swallowed the eggs soon after and died via an unfortunate acrobatic leap from his tank in the middle of the night. The female stopped eating for around a week after this, but later resumed its normal habits. I took a gamble and recently got another male in hopes of successfully spawning the species; the female displayed breeding stripes around ~3 days after introduction and started bulking up for eggs; the male seemed to have accepted the female, as no aggression was noted and the two were often found next to each other. The female has now developed a heavily rounded body and I observed her nudging the male, displaying her belly/side, and attempting to embrace him. However, the male refuses and tries to bite her side while shoving her away; it only seems to happen when she makes breeding advances and no other time does he display aggression in any sort, as the female and male still lie next to each other on an anubias leaf relatively frequently. I haven't noticed the same thing happening with my first pair, but they were fairly secretive, so I might've missed it. Anyone know why the male keeps doing this? Should I separate the two and try introducing them again some other time?
Tank is a 75G community with apistos, a few cories, a few plecos, and a few misc. community fish; none of the inhabitants bother the bettas and the bettas seem much more appreciative of the larger tank as compared to when I had them in a 20G long.
Tank is a 75G community with apistos, a few cories, a few plecos, and a few misc. community fish; none of the inhabitants bother the bettas and the bettas seem much more appreciative of the larger tank as compared to when I had them in a 20G long.