Lady Hobbs
03-23-2008, 06:19 PM
When I got my firemouth and parrots (full grown) the parrots were just awful to the firemouth so she went into another tank and now she has 5 friends. I tried about a month ago to put them back together and that firemouth come tearing out of her cave, grabbed ahold of the parrots mouth and away they went.
I can't stand fighting so separated them immediately. I now really need to shuffle some fish around and would "really" like them to share a tank but am afraid to try it again. The parrots can not bite back since they can't close their mouths but are 3-4 times larger as the firemouths so can push them around pretty well. But if they can not bite back I'm afraid can't defend themselves.
Perhaps if I had left them together longer they could figure out who the boss of the tank is but I can't get myself to wait it out. I do not want injured fish!
It drives me nuts when so many have these two species together and all I have is fighting. My blood parrots are a pair so perhaps that is adding to the fricken.
What would you do in this case? Put them together one more time and see if anything improves in a couple hours or just forget it and not subject them to this stress? I would have to move out my Silver Dollars, redo the parrot tank for them, etc, so it's a big job if it won't work.
I can't stand fighting so separated them immediately. I now really need to shuffle some fish around and would "really" like them to share a tank but am afraid to try it again. The parrots can not bite back since they can't close their mouths but are 3-4 times larger as the firemouths so can push them around pretty well. But if they can not bite back I'm afraid can't defend themselves.
Perhaps if I had left them together longer they could figure out who the boss of the tank is but I can't get myself to wait it out. I do not want injured fish!
It drives me nuts when so many have these two species together and all I have is fighting. My blood parrots are a pair so perhaps that is adding to the fricken.
What would you do in this case? Put them together one more time and see if anything improves in a couple hours or just forget it and not subject them to this stress? I would have to move out my Silver Dollars, redo the parrot tank for them, etc, so it's a big job if it won't work.