Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:15 PM
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:27 AM
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Good luck - looks like courtship to me! HOw long have you had the Moorish Idol?
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:05 PM
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I have had the Moorish Idol about 8 months now. At first the powder borwn tang bully him a little but now he now actually picks on the powder brown now. he actually eats more then the tangs do. Moorish Idol name is Rock Star Blonde Naso name is Happy Powder brown name is Zip Yellow Belly Hippo name is Thunder Blue Hippo name is Lightning Purple tang name is Grumps Flame Angel no name Rock Beauty No name Lepoard wrasses no name
<message edited by jerwin on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 3:31 PM>
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:15 PM
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So back to the Hippo tang pair. I watch them again last night and the male is still doing his show. I feel he is trying to win the girl right now. here is the more interesting part. the male use to sleep at night behind the back hanging filter in the video. the female use to sleep in a hole in the rock structure below the hanging filter. Since they have gotten together on Sat night they have both move to sleep behind the rock near the heater which is 1/2 the tank away. They now sleep together at night. I have check for the last couple of nights just to make sure. Background on the fish. Male: he is now about 2 1/2 years old and I got him when he was about 1 1/2 inches long. he is now about 7 inches long. he has been in this tank since I got him Female: I got her from a friend about 8 months ago. She is about 6 inches long. These things have only started happening since 4/12/14
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:55 PM
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Saturday, April 19, 2014 1:52 PM
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Nice video! I can see how you could get wet sitting near the tank!
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:28 PM
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Just an update. The male Tang puts on a show every night still for over a month from about 8pm until 10:15 when the lights go off. They usually spawn on Wed night of each week. This week they spawned on Tues night. Today I did a water change on the tank and the pair just spawned again. So that that is 2 spawns in under 7 days. I was thinking it was once a week type thing as when I breed Discus. But now I know they can spawn more often then that. I will keep everyone up to date with the next step. I am going to start to try to collect he eggs.
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Re:Yellow Belly Hippo and a Blue Hippo courting
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:19 PM
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So hippo tangs are still at it. They are almost breeding every night now. They spawn on the current dates confirmed by me. They might of spawned other nights when I was not in the room to watch. 6/10 6/14 6/15 6/18 tonight I turned off the main pumps and right after they spawned I turned off the lights and power heads. I was able to video some of the eggs floating on the surface. The goal is to build a device to contain the eggs in the tank for the next couple of spawns.
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