 In some cases, there is biparental care, discussed in a later section, but the female will always take an interest in caring for the eggs and newly hatched fry.There are many different species of cichlid that use pit-spawning as reproductive behavior, but one of the less commonly studied species that exhibit this behavior is the Neotropical cichlid fish or the Cichlasoma dimerus.This fish is a substrate-breeder who displays biparental care after the fish have hatched from their eggs.