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Scooter dragnet pairing/mating questions.

I bought 2 new scooter dragnets yesterday to go with the one female that we had. So I thought I bought a male and a female however one of them was hiding their large fin and both the sales guy and I didn't see it. They told me I was buying them at my own risk, so I am not sure what I want to do yet.

They all seem to be getting along. The one larger male and my current female (the black one) did a sand kicking type thing next to each other and were hanging out (dancing type thing) for awhile. After that they did this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UXcZ638pu0). (ignore the audio, I didn't feel like taking out the noise from my phone) I am not sure if that was a territory fight or a flirting thing. After that they have been staying calm and being boring. I am assuming that they paired up, but I am not quite sure after seeing the fight.

I was also wondering since the two males were already getting along if there are different types of males (ie drones)and if I can/should keep the smaller unpaired male. (or if someone has a female that would like to trade that would be better)
 

MadReefer

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I read on the net a few articles that said keep 1 male with 2/3 females. You would increase from there 2 males with 4/5 females, etc. Never read about pecking order.
 

mnat

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You may want to check this out:

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=176&t=989

Any dragonet is extremely hard to breed, they just put an exhibit down in the Smithsonian centered around breeding mandarins. That whole board has a lot on breedin mandarins led by Matt Wittenrich who really wrote the guide on the subject. He also pretty much setup the Smithsonain exhibit.
 
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