lobsternoob
02-06-2009, 03:04 AM
So 2 days ago i sadly lost my female firemouth, she got beat up badly, I wont go into specifics it was bad. I highly doubted her death was due to water problems seeing as i witnessed her being chased (and tested the water 2x it was the usual) by my male GT at the end and a little bit before too, but she was just being chased, never saw her caught. Typically the male Fmouth would protect her. He's acting really weird now and has been for a while. even before the loss of his mate.
I'm thinking now that the (my) GT's and firemouths WILL NOT work together, at least these particular ones or maybe my 50 is too small for them they feel crowded i guess. The biggest of the crew just broke the 3" mark, the male Fmouth. The fish are still all small, and the Gt's are both less than 2/3 the size of the fmouths. If you've seen a previous thread i made the GT's were sold to me as blue acara's. my BIG mistake for not looking and knowing better. The firemouths looked like they were mating and setting up a nest. the other night i went to the store, came back and saw a very badly beaten almost dead female FM couldn't save her. Odd to me because the FM are typically dominant in the tank. I don't know what the heck to do.
My water parameters are still great. I think the Male FM and GT are going at it, just so unexpected because the FM literally dwarfs the GT.
So now to the actual point of this giant post. The large male FM is acting really weird, he's putting his mouth right up to the front of the tank and swimming like crazy, it looks like hes trying to bust through the front of the tank, I have never seen this before, wondering if anyone else has?
I'm also thinking now, I'm gonna totally retool my stocking. This isnt working well at all, and i hate to see bad aggression and losses of fish, i interpret that as me doing something wrong. I had the exact same stocking in a 55 gal years back and never had probs.
I had plans to move them into a bigger tank i have stored now, but i don't know. I'm very discouraged now, because I have never experienced aggression like this before and i have had this same exact tank stock and setup in the past, just 5 gallons larger.
As always a huge rambling thread, sorry, but I really am not happy about this.
I'm thinking now that the (my) GT's and firemouths WILL NOT work together, at least these particular ones or maybe my 50 is too small for them they feel crowded i guess. The biggest of the crew just broke the 3" mark, the male Fmouth. The fish are still all small, and the Gt's are both less than 2/3 the size of the fmouths. If you've seen a previous thread i made the GT's were sold to me as blue acara's. my BIG mistake for not looking and knowing better. The firemouths looked like they were mating and setting up a nest. the other night i went to the store, came back and saw a very badly beaten almost dead female FM couldn't save her. Odd to me because the FM are typically dominant in the tank. I don't know what the heck to do.
My water parameters are still great. I think the Male FM and GT are going at it, just so unexpected because the FM literally dwarfs the GT.
So now to the actual point of this giant post. The large male FM is acting really weird, he's putting his mouth right up to the front of the tank and swimming like crazy, it looks like hes trying to bust through the front of the tank, I have never seen this before, wondering if anyone else has?
I'm also thinking now, I'm gonna totally retool my stocking. This isnt working well at all, and i hate to see bad aggression and losses of fish, i interpret that as me doing something wrong. I had the exact same stocking in a 55 gal years back and never had probs.
I had plans to move them into a bigger tank i have stored now, but i don't know. I'm very discouraged now, because I have never experienced aggression like this before and i have had this same exact tank stock and setup in the past, just 5 gallons larger.
As always a huge rambling thread, sorry, but I really am not happy about this.