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mik
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Ok this isn'ta problem just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this type of behaviour at the moment.
My four-foot tank is kept in my garage and holds 6 adults. The filter is under-gravel and there are two lifting pipes one at each rear corner.
The temperature has dropped over the last couple of weeks to 15 deg C and is holding there. The five in one test i check water quality with gives me no cause for concern.
Every time I have been to check on my charges, this week, they are playing a game of who can bully the way into the small gap behind the right hand side lifting pipe. There are typically two winners who stay in the vertical position for the duration until the action starts again and they are usurped. Then the remaining 4 sit on top of each other at the base of the tube.
When they are contesting it looks like eels mating. It's that fast with bodies twisting all over each other. No mating behaviour/no s'phores/no eggs just madness. Oh yeah, food intake has finally dropped and appetites are satisfied with feeding every other day.
My 3 young'uns inside the house (temp 18-20C typically) are behaving normally. Well normal for axies anyway.
It's quite entertaining but i end up thinking what's so special about the RHS lifting pipe, why not the left one?
My four-foot tank is kept in my garage and holds 6 adults. The filter is under-gravel and there are two lifting pipes one at each rear corner.
The temperature has dropped over the last couple of weeks to 15 deg C and is holding there. The five in one test i check water quality with gives me no cause for concern.
Every time I have been to check on my charges, this week, they are playing a game of who can bully the way into the small gap behind the right hand side lifting pipe. There are typically two winners who stay in the vertical position for the duration until the action starts again and they are usurped. Then the remaining 4 sit on top of each other at the base of the tube.
When they are contesting it looks like eels mating. It's that fast with bodies twisting all over each other. No mating behaviour/no s'phores/no eggs just madness. Oh yeah, food intake has finally dropped and appetites are satisfied with feeding every other day.
My 3 young'uns inside the house (temp 18-20C typically) are behaving normally. Well normal for axies anyway.
It's quite entertaining but i end up thinking what's so special about the RHS lifting pipe, why not the left one?