Courtship?

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Courtship?

Post by emanuel »

Are my L168s starting a courtship? I'm surprised to see this behavior, they never did. They did as in the video for about an hour.
sorry for my bad English
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Re: Courtship?

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I haven't kept l168 but looks more like a territorial disagreement to me.
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I agree with seb47. This is fighting, not courtship.

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Re: Courtship?

Post by emanuel »

Great, thank you very much!
Today everything is quiet again, they don't fight anymore and they have a very bright and shiny yellow and black color again.
It was strange to see them fight yesterday, they usually never interact with each other
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Re: Courtship?

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Pre spawn behavour can be quite intense I have a you tube video of my eigenmen whiptail in pre spawn behavour which I tried to post here but could not figure out how, but anyhow the pair do not appear to be courting, but were and ended up spawning in a tube

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Re: Courtship?

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youtu.be/u94zzF5AKks
this is my video

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Moderator note: I edited this post to fix the YouTube link.
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