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I have a large female emperor who had babies recently. I've been checking on her every day and feeding her a couple times a week. All was fine until the other day. I went to check on her, and there were no babies and she was extreamly fat (None of the babies were off her back yet, only a couple weeks old)!
So, since she no longer had any babies I decided to take her out of the smaller isolation tank I had her on and put her into the larger well decorated tank with my red claw of about the same size.
Well, about 10 seconds after putting her in they went at it. The fighting quickly turned into mating behavior, and the male red claw brought her right over to a flat rock to deposit his spermatophore.
As soon as the deed was done, the red claw went after her again trying to sting her, so I seperated her again.
Is it normal for fighting like this to take place or could this just have been because it was a red claw and an emp, and not 2 of the same species?
So, since she no longer had any babies I decided to take her out of the smaller isolation tank I had her on and put her into the larger well decorated tank with my red claw of about the same size.
Well, about 10 seconds after putting her in they went at it. The fighting quickly turned into mating behavior, and the male red claw brought her right over to a flat rock to deposit his spermatophore.
As soon as the deed was done, the red claw went after her again trying to sting her, so I seperated her again.
Is it normal for fighting like this to take place or could this just have been because it was a red claw and an emp, and not 2 of the same species?