[DJRansome]

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Once a day is more than enough if you are feeding for 10 minutes...some recommend 30 seconds.

Fast circling is aggression. The shakes can be either aggression with another male or spawning if he is shaking over an egg that has just been laid by a female.

 

[DJRansome]

When they spawn, the male and female swim in a circle. She lays an egg on each circle...as he comes around he shimmy's over the egg. And as she comes around she picks it up in her mouth and lays another. About 20 circles.