My fish are killing each other :<

Nate

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did you call the little one vlad? ;o flush it down the loo and let it go on a massive adventure in the sea! it will become a shark killer!!! sharks won't be able to see it as it's so small
 

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Dudley52 said:
Why would you want to do that? Its a new recent addition to the tank. There are lots of different reasons why it could be attacking, water conditions (they could be totally different from what it used to live in and therefore has not got used to the water yet). Not enough places to hide.

Do you test the water for ph, nitrites, nitrates and Ammonia?

While the new addition is getting used to the new water, you could buy a separating net, to separate it from the other fish, then release it after a week or two with the other fish and see if it is still aggresive towards them.


I don't see why water conditions would make 1 fish out of 5 of the exact same sort brought at the same time decide to get pissy at all the other fish.

With our latest tank we have several colony's in it and again we add half a dozen of a new kind in and sure enough 1 of them starts to bully all the other fish, nipping at them or trying to 'back up' onto the fish with the bone spikes on its tail.

The water conditions havent changed, no other fish are bothering it, yet it will still chase anything it sees and theres plenty of room for all.

Should you add more places for the other fish to hide and let them suffer getting chased ? or should you remove the problem fish.

You can get the exact same problems with birds, but usually with our birds its because one of them is ready to breed and the other isn't. But birds are alot easier to seperate then fish.
 

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My father and I kept and bread tropical fish for a long time, and I agree with everthing Kagato has said. Youve just got a bastard fish, changing the water or putting more hidding places in is unlikely to solve the problem.

Remove offending fish, place inside newspaper, slap brick onto newspaper, throw newspaper and fish paste away.
 

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Kagato said:
I don't see why water conditions would make 1 fish out of 5 of the exact same sort brought at the same time decide to get pissy at all the other fish.

With our latest tank we have several colony's in it and again we add half a dozen of a new kind in and sure enough 1 of them starts to bully all the other fish, nipping at them or trying to 'back up' onto the fish with the bone spikes on its tail.

The water conditions havent changed, no other fish are bothering it, yet it will still chase anything it sees and theres plenty of room for all.

Should you add more places for the other fish to hide and let them suffer getting chased ? or should you remove the problem fish.

You can get the exact same problems with birds, but usually with our birds its because one of them is ready to breed and the other isn't. But birds are alot easier to seperate then fish.

He said he bought a ickle goldfish to replace one that died..... so that is the new addition, while the other fish are mature members of the tank.
 

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Just flush the damn fish that is killing the others and replace it... its just a damn fish. Even vegetarians don't care about them :p
 

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Maybe if its flushed down the toilet it will go kill all the crocodiles and anaconda's people flush down there?
 

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Bahumat said:
Maybe if its flushed down the toilet it will go kill all the crocodiles and anaconda's people flush down there?

Haven't you seen that its distinctly impossible to do that.

At least with a full grown croc, Abe Simpson failed miserably :(
 

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yes, don't try to flush down a 5 meter crocodile in your toilet, it may cause a clogging
 

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m8, just add a pirahna, i saw this nice vid of a goldfish getting ripped apart by 1 curtesy of dudey (cheerz m8 8-> )
or u cud just rip the bastards tail fin off and watch it try to charge the larger fish then
:drink:
 

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Weever said:
m8, just add a pirahna, i saw this nice vid of a goldfish getting ripped apart by 1 curtesy of dudey (cheerz m8 8-> )
or u cud just rip the bastards tail fin off and watch it try to charge the larger fish then
:drink:

Rather rip your arms off and watch you try and post useless shit.
 

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Weever said:
m8, just add a pirahna, i saw this nice vid of a goldfish getting ripped apart by 1 curtesy of dudey (cheerz m8 8-> )
or u cud just rip the bastards tail fin off and watch it try to charge the larger fish then
:drink:
thats not true afaik
if you add 1 piranah it will hide in a corner and die, they need a group to start hunting
Put it in a seperate tank for a day and then put it back seems to have calmed it down, seems more interested in its own reflection now ><
hmm.. maybe i should name it vlad after all
 

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Chronictank said:
thats not true afaik
if you add 1 piranah it will hide in a corner and die, they need a group to start hunting
Put it in a seperate tank for a day and then put it back seems to have calmed it down, seems more interested in its own reflection now ><
hmm.. maybe i should name it vlad after all


yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss doitdoitdoit!
 

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this was the best post in a long time, made my day :)

one question who does alot of test of the waters ph for a goldfish? :)
 

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Weever said:
m8, just add a pirahna, i saw this nice vid of a goldfish getting ripped apart by 1 curtesy of dudey (cheerz m8 8-> )
or u cud just rip the bastards tail fin off and watch it try to charge the larger fish then
:drink:
fuck off?



thanks ever so much
 

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Raven said:
best way to put a fish down i have heard (if you have to ofc) is stick it in the freezer in a margarine tub of water. That's how we killed one of ours that had a disease.

hahaha that made me laugh SO hard
 

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have to do a larger assignment (most important assignment of the year) and a subject of my choice, will probably go biology and this seems quite interesting. is it psychological, eviromental, a third or a mixture of all options. either that or comination of history and biology about the plague (black death? directly translated from the danish term of it).
 

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have to do a larger assignment (most important assignment of the year) and a subject of my choice, will probably go biology and this seems quite interesting. is it psychological, eviromental, a third or a mixture of all options. either that or comination of history and biology about the plague (black death? directly translated from the danish term of it).
 

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have to do a larger assignment (most important assignment of the year) and a subject of my choice, will probably go biology and this seems quite interesting. is it psychological, eviromental, a third or a mixture of all options. either that or comination of history and biology about the plague (black death? directly translated from the danish term of it).
 

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Huntingtons said:
have to do a larger assignment (most important assignment of the year) and a subject of my choice, will probably go biology and this seems quite interesting. is it psychological, eviromental, a third or a mixture of all options. either that or comination of history and biology about the plague (black death? directly translated from the danish term of it).

wtf :s
 

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Vladamir said:
i thought you were the juggernaught?
surely you want your minions named after you? :D





Whole tank, other 2 were hiding and i cba to get them out.
You could prolly just make out a couple of the tiny fish which clean the tank
 

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i would love to know what food your feedin them with.... do they eat or smoke it?
 

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