Strawberry psuedochromis making nest

[cb1964]

I didn’t know that these fish would dig a nest? It is interesting to watch.

 

[cb1964]

It has picked up mouthfuls of gravel and spit it out all day long.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Yeah, not a whole lot of info on the reproductive behavior of these (they seem to be pretty secretive about their reproduction even in the wild), but they do seen to nest/den up for breeding:

Breeding Journal, Species: Pictichromis porphyrea: Magenta Dottyback

Breeding Journal DataSheet This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place or changes are made to your system General Species: Pictichromis porphyrea Social Structure: pair Size of Individuals:4 cm Age of Indivi...

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Fun fact for anyone interested, these fish have been shown to exhibit bi-directional sex change (meaning that they can change from female to male and male to female).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268989373_Bidirectional_sex_change_in_the_magenta_dottyback_Pictichromis_porphyrea_first_evidence_from_the_field_in_Pseudochromidae