Vivienne

See my topic of the same name! Guess I better just get rid of my male. Randy or aggressive? I dunno, but I wouldn’t put up with him.

Where can they be bought in Christchurch? Would love some for my pond.

Took the harassed female back to the pet shop. Couldn’t stand to see her distress any longer. Adding another female didn’t help and I don’t think adding another one would have helped either. His obsession was totally focussed on her. Thank for the advice though.

I think it is maybe because she is so passive? I feel so bad about this, she is now exhausted. I bought another female earlier today and also a moonlight gourami. I know it’s not a brilliant idea to add fish without quarantining them first, but if I had another tank and heater I would have removed the harassed fish to give her a break. The new swordtail and the existing female don’t take any nonsense from the male. I assume herein lies the problem of why she is being attacked. I have got some flat rocks from the garden on the boil right now to try and give her a few more hiding places. It’s so distressing to see her in this condition. If I’m doing something wrong here please speak up.

Thanks Jude and Alan. I hate the conflicting advice that you can receive from different lfs. When I bought the swordtails I was told that if I had more than 2 females for 1 male, the females would start to morph into males? I’m quite happy to buy another female but can you tell me why it is that he only chases one particular female and never seems to bother the other one?

Hi guys, I’m kinda a newbie fish keeper here so I apologise in advance if this is a silly question. I have a 45 gallon community tank, 10 neons 6 glowlites 1 gourami (gonna get a couple more soon) and 3 swordtails, 1 male 2 females. The male is chasing one of the females to the point of what must surely soon become exhaustion! She finds a lot of places to hide but he systematically hunts her down each and every time. What should I do about this - will it help if I get some more females? Another male? Get rid of the male (give away / flush - what?!?) Please, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.