This is a (bad) pic of my Fahaka, she's currently around 9 or 10 inches. I've had her since November last year.
Anyhow, last night I was watching her & she had cleared a big pit in the sand in the centre of the tank.
She was sitting on the bottom looking stressed - dark blotches all over her.
She usually looks kind of like this for a while when the lights first come on but this was different.
As I was watching her, she moved into the pit she had made & started laying eggs!
Thousands of them which came out in a twirling motion, she moved to a different spot & did the same again.
I left the eggs in overnight to see if she would eat them, she didn't - didn't think so as they're so small.
There are some African cichlid fry in the tank with her at the moment & they were looking decidedly fat this morning though.
I'll have to remove the rest of the eggs later today for fear of them spoiling the water quality.
She's still not herself today, keeping a low profile & seems to be constantly checking out her reflection in the tank bottom where she cleared the spawning pit.
Anyone ever experienced this before? It was quite surreal to witness her actually laying the eggs...
