Usually when you add new fish it starts a territory scrap. I've always added in territorial fish as a group to avoid that. Also, with fish that just act like jerks, the best way to deal with that is a larger group of fish so the aggression is spread over the group instead of one fish being constantly attacked. Then there are times when the trouble maker ends up in a bag or water and put into the freezer. Prob the most humane way to kill the bugger bar clove oil which knocks them out.
That's what is happening with the others. The bully is going for all the other three but two of them stick together and fight back so the bully as backed off. It's just the two loners that don't get on now. Problem is, the other tank as a lot more (smaller) fish it it so he'll probably end up killing them
I have no idea as the mrs (nm) got them, I've had no involvement bar her moaning at me that they keep fighting Just checked her Facebook and she's not posted a picture yet
she didn't go and put male siamese fighting fish in the same tank Post a pic when you get one. Other fish like loaches will fight to establish pecking order tho that is between two males of similar size, the big ones don't bully the small ones. They sound like barbs or tetras of some kind tho.
She reads about absolutely everything before doing something so I doubt she's done something that silly but who knows Definitely not tetras
The victim is a shade of pink. The two that stick together are a shade of blue. The bully looks grey to me. #nothelpful
ah yeah ratty ****s them, I had moonlights a few years ago, full grown male kept hammering the juvenile male that was a quarter of his size. I often called them ****fish. I had 17 of them in a big planted tank years ago and no one fish ever got singled out, just regular beatings for everyone. Their attacks just look ****in stupid as well, "i'll ram you with my face", not made for fighting those ****s
Got 4 in my tank no problems. I do have an 8 yr old Flying Fox which is a complete psycho and attacks everything in the tank for about 5 minutes every day then calms down. Photo below of one of mine please log in to view this image
the mrs (nm) told me the bully was in a tank on its own when she bought them so maybe it was just the runt so to speak
Never buy a fish that is in "solitary" usually there for a reason. If the "fish screws" have taken its shoelaces and put it on suicide watch, that's also a bit of a give away!
She didn't buy it. She bought the other three and was given the other as they wanted to free the tank up. they said it was the last of that batch.
