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:
http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/tm.aspx?&m=47585&mpage=1Fun 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/public...st_evidence_from_the_field_in_Pseudochromidae