Greewok
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Well, today I went back to gravel in the bare bottom tank. Almost instantly I noticed a big change in the paddle tails. They were really active, checking out their new carpeting and chasing eachother around. One of my main males likes to snipe other tank mates from above. He sits in the hornwort and watches them, when they get close he flys down and chases them. This evening, when he flew down, he started shaking his tail right in front of the big girl. I have only seen this once before with him. Unfortunately, she wanted nothing to do with it and eventually swam away. His dance didn't go unnoticed as another girl saw it, and swam right up to him putting her face in his cloaca area. He would slowly circle a flowerpot with her bumping his curled tail and following. They did about four laps and it looked like he dropped around three sperm packets. One I could see was stuck to her inside back leg, and two in the gravel. Here are a few pics of the action: