HELP! - Kribs fighting - 2.5 week old fry

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Okay so 2.5 weeks ago my kribs had their first batch of babies. They've been WONDERFUL parents. Always working together, never leaving them unatended for a second. A couple nights ago I noticed them sparring. It kinda startled me, but it stopped shortly after it started. Tonight, they've been swirling around each other, darting and sparring for quite a while not. Momma's belly has lost it's rosy sheen all of a sudden and turned WHITE.

Is this the start of a problem? Should I take on of them out? please advise!!!
 
are you sure its not prespawning activity again, its not unusual for them to breed again while tending to fry or for the male to try to spawn again with her even if she doesnt want to.
 
Two possibilities:

One wants to take over the care of the fry - One parent will sometimes decide it wants to take care of the fry on its own

The male is ready to spawn again - the female is not

If it gets out of hand, remove the male if possible - they will probably work it out on their own.
 
that's what suddenly dawned on me. OH LORD!!! what was I thinking getting these gorgeous fishies?!? LOL I reads somewhere that if I left the babies in there long enough they would WAIT.

well it was obvious when they were in the fish store that they were a couple, they spawned within less than a week of bringing them home, and they've never been more that 2 inches apart the whole time I've had them. I'm afraid this might be another courtship afterall.

Still open (hoping maybe?) to other ideas thought :-)
 
10gal for just one krib would be fine make sure you are using the same water perimeters as the 55gal give him a few weeks in isolation and after the fry have had a good chance at getting bigger and healthier and you should be able to add him back but since he will be on vacation when he returns he may find his offspring the enemy. i would pick out what you want and do a switch return him and pull the fry to the 10gal..
 
I remember when I was a kid and my mom had a guppy that was going to have babies, she had this net box the was basically like a division of the aquarium. It just kept the babies separate.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and what that's called? I'm wondering if it would work to stick the dad in one of those for a little while instead of a completely different tank? I don't know what it's called though to look for one online
 
its called a breeding net or trap but you will do more harm than good with him in that device he would be better off in a 5gal tank on his own the 10gal would be best the breeder net will cause stress and then poss disease only do that unless you just necessarily have to..
 
okay I just found them, breeder boxes. I think I'm going to make a custom one so that he can still have his normal environent, to a certain extent, but be separate from his woman. I'm getting some great ideas for this. Because if this is going to be a recurring problem, I need a long term solution and I think this might be it. I can make it so it isolates a section of the bottom of the tank to just him for a short period of time.

does anyone see any reason why this would NOT be a good way to go?
 
oh okay. I didn't know there was something wrong with those. I'll go ahead and set up the 10G tomorrow then. Oh the BF's not gonna be happy about that...another tank!!!
 
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