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Offline Loon36cf

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Help please can male cichlids hold
« on: July 20, 2013, 02:15:00 AM »
It looks like my male peacock is holding is this possible???? He is not eating and staying in pretty much one spot as well as a motion like he is tumbling eggs

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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2013, 02:35:59 AM »
He is holding a beer:)
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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2013, 02:36:51 AM »
No that's me
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Offline danielratti

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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2013, 06:24:00 AM »
Shouldn't be. Could be hormones and really a female could also be bloat.

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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2013, 12:48:23 PM »
So I took him out to see what was in his mouth and yes I found about 15 eggs and 6 little pieces of gravel. He is 100 percent a male but I'm unsure why he had the eggs like he was tumbling them. Unless he tried eating them and took up too much gravel that he couldn't swallow them? I have no idea.
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Chris

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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2013, 02:15:40 PM »
How long have you had him? Where did you get him from?

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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2013, 02:36:54 PM »
About a month and he's about 5 6 inches I got him from Gcalvus
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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2013, 04:17:42 PM »
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Re: Help please can male cichlids hold
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2013, 09:57:04 PM »
Interesting...
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