females fighting?

by **CraigBaines** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:14 pm

ok well hmm, my brother just came round and said to me, is that fish dead?

well i was looking, and she was still moving, but is lying on the bottom, somtimes upside down, her fins are a bit battered and im compleatly lost as too why, the three females have been living together for a while now, no problems....

but there was one who did seem to be attacking her just as i noticed.

Well iv divided the small tank i have one in, and dropped her in there.

Only have about 2 and a half G each, but there babies so its not too bad, trouble is i have no more tanks so i need her to go back in with the females! lol

what could of caused this? It wasnt even the biggest female who seemed to be the aggresive one....

by **pippoodle** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:02 pm

it's mostly the ones that are lower in the pecking order that fight , the bigger more dominant ones dont - how many females are in together hun

before you reintroduce her you need to remove all females together for an hour - rearrange the tank then add them all back at the same time

Cause could be anything - has anything changed in the tank at all ? added any new girls in the last 2 weeks ?

by **CraigBaines** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:22 pm

nothing has changed...

there are 3, there all still young, sister's.

there one a fair bit bigger, then these two who i think were fighting, they look identical, the one who seems hurt is probally a tiny bit smaller though.

I hope she will recover, she at the top now, resting against the fake rock background. At least she's on her own now, im going to leave her out and let her fins grow back, its just they dont have as much room as i like now iv had to seperate her.

Looking abit tatty Sad

by **jasminek** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:48 pm

The excact thing happened to me tonight, although it was my first try out with 3 females didnt work. So having to do a sority with a tank now.

by **pippoodle** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:01 pm

you need more than 3 girls Craig thats the problem - or a larger tank - 3 girls on there own need a lot of space to set up individual territorys

If you can get 3 more girls and go for a larger sorority then that would be better if not seperate the girls - tubs would be fine

by **CraigBaines** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:12 pm

yer i know, but there the girls i got out of breeding!

i have ther emother in there with them, but divided, there all ALOT smaller, so i dont feel comftable, dispite her seeming ok the last time i tried.

Same thing would happen if i was looking to buy females, there still small, i dobt id find any small enought to go in.

by **CraigBaines** on Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:13 pm

oh, the three were in a 16 gallon tank, the mum has about a third of that to her self. so about 10 galons id say.

by **CraigBaines** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:49 pm

poor thing died

by **pippoodle** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:59 pm

so sorry hun - keep the other 2 seperate if you can - aggression between females in groups of less than 4

by **CraigBaines** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:13 pm

may buy anouther divider and keep the three females seperate just like the males tank lol.

by **pippoodle** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:17 pm

might be better until next spawn

by **Storm** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:56 pm

There must be summit in the air, my 3 females were fighting the other day. Nothing since though.

by **pippoodle** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:01 pm

Its the number storm
4 or less bad number of females to have - i wouldnt have less than 6 in a tank but thats just me

by **Storm** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:28 pm

i can see your point there pip, i thinking of going to an all molly/sword and guppy tank lmao.

by **pippoodle** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:37 pm

dont forget if you go guppy molly they can hybridise and you wouldnt be able to sell fry as 100% molly or guppy Wink

by **jasminek** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:20 pm

this happened with me to! But now all seperated andim going for a 10 female betta sority.

by **CraigBaines** on Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:51 pm

I would have more females, it just there still so small im not happy buying females which will be alot bigger to go in with them hmm

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