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Just a view of my community tank with all the fish in it

I just put them together to try and breed them and pretty much straight away they seemed quite friendly and playful towards one another and swim quite close together, they also seem to be nipping the others fins and for majority of the time they are joined lip to lip usually at the bottom of the tank – doesn’t seem like either are struggling to escape. Once they are done with this weird interaction they go to the top of the tank for a breathe, and then befin the whole thing again. Currently they are joined by their lips – the male is upsidedown and they they are moving around gracefully as this happens….. WTF— Can someone explain what is happening? Should I worry ?

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This is Fry (the boy) and Leela ( the girl) getting to know eachother before they spawn.

This is an update to a previous video after 8 months of improvements and iterations to the setup. The idea of the setup has always been to create a healthy, long term supportable environment that is low maintenance, low budget, and low tech. A lot of research, trial and errors went into this setup. No major hazards or changes made since the beginning, so this setup can be used as a proven guide that’s been running for a year. Suggestion to viewers is to take an aquarium setup serious, as there are many right ways as there are wrong ways. Summary of what I learned in the process, and where I want to take it in a future aquarium is as follows: – General rule of thumb in an aquarium as the size of tank increases setup cost increases, maintenance cost increases, but maintenance effort decreases. Yet bowls, vases and such are hostile to house fish in and are even illegal to do so in some European countries. – An aquarium should always be amongst the highlight of a room, so position, stand, dimensions, filter noise, colors, and illumination should be well thought ahead. – Inside an aquarium consider type of substrate, background, light hood, heating, filtration, and how to conceal them the best. Try to balance color contrast with dark colors on substrate and background, with green of plants, and bright colors of fish. Read about “Aquarium Golden Ratio” for layout. – As setup time progresses many types of algae is part of natural occurences, by no means are harmful, but can be …