Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / April 2005

  Breeding that is. I have a gold female that was laying eggs like crazy,
but kept swapping out potential mates until I found a male. He's a huge
green male that succeeded in 2 spawnings. I moved the babes to another tank
a few times. She then left a few batches of unfertilized eggs over the next
few months. They did actively take care of them until they started rotting
and were discarded.  It's been 6 months and no eggs at all. Just cold
stopped. They still act very territorial about the cave wall where they
watched the eggs in the past, so they still act like a pair. They are alone
in the tank. I wonder if the male is too old?  He's twice as big.  But even
so she stopped producng eggs completely. I do water changes and PH checks
and such with no help. Anyone have any ideas why they stopped, or what to do
to get them going again?