Anthony93 Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Hi Everyone. The past couple of days I've been keeping an eye on my flower horns to try breed. Today I noticed both the male and female getting darker and the female starting to drop her egg tube. I ended up taking the divider out at 2pm today and they have been kissing and holding lips, dancing showing off in front of each other and the Male occasionally has a nip at her but they have been getting along fine. She has been hiding away from him sometimes but then comes back out and shows off again. They have been pushing into the rocks and dancing but that's about it so far. Is this normal and are they ok to be left together over night and how long does it normally take to lay eggs if she's ready. My first time breeding so need some info please thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angry Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Pretty normal... keep an eye on them closely if the female cant escape securely from the male... If she or he gets badly beaten redivide them and try again later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony93 Posted December 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 I am at work now but my gf is home watching them. The female had a couple marks, skin peel off her nose a little but not bad and he's fine. It's his first time with a female but not sure about her, if she's been with another male before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellalouisarhydan Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 i had a pair here and the fm laid every 11 days !!! i cant speak for the majority but in my opinion nice easy fish to breed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony93 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Yes my female laid before I went on holiday then when I came back after 2 week holiday had another lot of eggs she laid. So Its been almost another 2 weeks now so I'm thinking she will be ready to lay soon again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony93 Posted December 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Still hasn't layed yet but has got even darker today. They are getting along great. Like holding hands along the beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony93 Posted December 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Hi everyone. Update on the pair. This is my male and female flowerhorn that I dividered apart to try and pair them up to breed. I knew the basics of breeding flowerhorns at the time but as I am a newbie and haven't bred flowerhorns before, I started reading up on floerhornfun forum and saw Den's posts about keeping the divider in and leaving a small gap at the bottom. I thought about trying Den's theory at the time but I decided I would let them go with no divider since they were getting along great. After a couple of nights together they were still doing fine. Yesterday afternoon when i started noticing that her egg tube had dropped all the way down but still no eggs, I decided to take Den's advice and put the divider back in with the gap at the bottom. We headed out for the night to go look at Christmas lights. When we came back home after about 4hrs, we found that she had finally laid her eggs. I have now put the divider down to seperate them off for the female to look after the eggs. Because they are both still young, I'm hoping that the male will be fertile and I get a successful batch from them. I have just a few questions to ask that I am not sure of- How long until you can tell that eggs have been fertilised? If the eggs are fertilised how long does it take for them to hatch? Thank you for reading and look forward to getting your responses. Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...