Ch@d Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 one of my electric yellow has got eggs in her mouth and has had them for about 5 days, today i look in my tank and i see another one so i caught her and put her in my little tank with the other yellow and now they are fighting. will they calm down or will they keep fighting. :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Not a good idea to have 2 holding fish in the same small tank together they are territorial.. The fighting may end up with one of them being injured or spitting their eggs/babies. Obviously you can get away with it if you have a bigger tank or tons of rocks etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 My personal experience is that it wasnt a good idea to remove the holding fish. By the time I reintroduced the mother it was a foreigner again, at the bottom of the pecking order. And dead the next day. When you are going to re-introduce the fish into the main tank make sure you 'rearrange the furniture'. Changing the aquascape breaks up territories and scares them a little, giving the fish a chance to slip back in. I let the next one spit in the tank and the mother and some fry survived. The next I stripped after staying a couple of weeks in the main tank and the mother and more fry survived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ch@d Posted March 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 nearly 2 weeks ago she had eggs in her mouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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