Mating/Pairing behaviour?

[ScottishFish]

As some of you may know I currently have 6 juvenile firemouths in my 48G, I'm aiming to get a pair then rehome the remaining 4.

At the moment I have one male who is no larger than 2 inches, and a female around the same size, the other 4 are smaller and by the looks of it all female. I mustve been lucky in picking them!

Lastnight I observed some new behaviour from the male, he decided to start picking gravel up, swimming to a stone then making a small pile behind it. Looks like this certain stone (rounded and around 3inch diameter) is his new territory.

So was this behaviour him trying to show off and pair with a female, or was he just being a Cichlid and redecorating?

[eltylT]

Don't really know anything about them but I do wish you good luck and I hope you have a frisky male trying to show off his home building ability and one of the females picks up on it . Good luck and let us know happens.

[eltylT]

P.S. how many tanks do you have up and running with fish?

[ScottishFish]

Two tanks the now :)

[HEADIN]

About time that they started getting their freak on..

Does that mean i can have 1 of those spare 1s that are going to be rehomed :):) lol

[ScottishFish]

You are more than welcome to the spares when they are getting rehomed

[fishguy420]

the firemouth is a very intresting fish.I have 1 in my 55gal tank with just convicts.Reasontly I put some little baby convicts back in tank and he acts like a dad to them by protecting them from bigger convicts weird huh.Good luck to u hope everythong works out for u

[HEADIN]

i would definately take 1 of them off your hands mate!