Nagmad
08-25-2014, 08:34 AM
Hi everyone,
I have looked through the post and probably missed it but I was after some advice. I have a breeding pair of discus that were in a community tank, I had another tank so I removed all the other fish and gravel and left the pair in this tank. This pair over the past two weeks have began fighting and each day getting worse. They never have done this before and seemed to work well as a team. The last batch of eggs the fighting appeared to be over who got to fan the eggs. So yesterday after dividing the tank I added two fish out of my community tank in the hope that the focus would get spread to these two as well even though they were behind a divider, this didn't work so I took the divider out. Tonight she has layed eggs again and he followed, as soon as the process was finished the fighting began again, I separated the pair with the divider, leaving the female with the eggs, and the male is going backwards and forwards along the divider, should I leave them separated and leave him in his half of the tank or should I remove him from the tank completely. I would not have seperated them but the fighting is constant. I'm sorry for the long post but I had no intentionions to breed and now I have a breeding pair would like to give them a chance so any advice would be appreciated so I don't cause my male any unwanted stress.
I have looked through the post and probably missed it but I was after some advice. I have a breeding pair of discus that were in a community tank, I had another tank so I removed all the other fish and gravel and left the pair in this tank. This pair over the past two weeks have began fighting and each day getting worse. They never have done this before and seemed to work well as a team. The last batch of eggs the fighting appeared to be over who got to fan the eggs. So yesterday after dividing the tank I added two fish out of my community tank in the hope that the focus would get spread to these two as well even though they were behind a divider, this didn't work so I took the divider out. Tonight she has layed eggs again and he followed, as soon as the process was finished the fighting began again, I separated the pair with the divider, leaving the female with the eggs, and the male is going backwards and forwards along the divider, should I leave them separated and leave him in his half of the tank or should I remove him from the tank completely. I would not have seperated them but the fighting is constant. I'm sorry for the long post but I had no intentionions to breed and now I have a breeding pair would like to give them a chance so any advice would be appreciated so I don't cause my male any unwanted stress.