Ahhhhhhh! lol

[vanessa]

i put Oliver into my main tank this morning and half an hour later he was chasing all of my females and wiggling his tail at them. i looked closer and saw that he was trying to lay a spermataphore (spelling?)lol. i dont know if they are interested in him but he keeps nudging them with his snout and head butting them. he doesnt seem to be interested in my wildtype and he mostly seems to be hanging around my golden freak, sometimes he gives marilyn a nudge but she keeps biting him.lol. also he hasnt actually laid any spermetaphores but he has one hanging out of him and his cloaca is open, he just keeps walking around the females is he just trying to find the right female and the right place to lay his spermetaphores? is this normal? i hope they lay eggs but then i hope they dont because i already have some eggs from halszka, if they do i will just keep a few and freeze the rest. i have some pictures of him with the spermetaphore.

 

[dev]

never seen that before interesting...

Axies need lubb too

(Message edited by solaris on July 17, 2005)

 

[shane]

yeah mine did that too only a week ago. i had only put the male in and two hours later he was depositing spermatophore everywhere. he kept head butting my female too, i think it is just them trying to make the female collect some of it. but it looked more like he was bullying her into it. lol she often bit at him too just to scare him i think.

it is a pretty interesting way of doing things. lol good luck if u do get a few eggs.

 

[anne-marie]

I wondered if that might happen Vanessa! If you really don't want the eggs you can just remove the sperm before the other axies see it...I removed some from my tank too, but it was too late for some.

 

[vanessa]

this is really weird, Oliver took twelve hours just to deposit one spermetaphore, he spent all his time chasing the females and head butting them instead of laying the spermetaphore. when i saw it come out of him i thought he would stop but now this morning he is doing the same thing again and all of my females dont seem to want to have a bar of him. they are all just happy to sit there and zone out while he runs around on the bottom of the tank with a spermetaphore hanging out of him.lol. i think maybe it is just him that is interested in spawning and my other females are just ignoring him, anyway i dont think it would be a very good idea if my two axies that i got off anne-marie spawned because they are so young, Marilyn is old enough though but if oliver goes any where near her she just bites him and sometimes it looks like she tries to hide from him and then he finds her and gives her a headbutt.lol. is this normal?

 

[nathan]

I don't know because my male is to lazy to do anything of the sought, also did you have to go to school today because I don’t have to go back till Thursday, ha ha!

 

[rheann]

I have seen where male ducks will chase a female around, several males to one female, and they will just jump on her and wear her out, one after another, and the back of her head will be bald from all of them constantly holding the back of her neck. I feel really bad for the female duck. Axies are funny. I look forward to breeding mine in the future. Can axies breed before they are 18 months old, or is it bad to try and breed them before this? I haven't a clue.

 

[vanessa]

Nathan-i didnt have to go back to school till tuesday, it is sooooo unfair that you dont have to go back to school till thursday. also did u have homework over the holidays? i did which was stupid

 

[nathan]

no ha ha ha