Anubis Attack!

[sandfire]

Ok so I am not doing any favours again!

My brother who loves his big aggressive cichlids asked me to nurse his Jack Dempsey back to health after it was attacked by his Green Terror in his tank which I like to call Thunderdome.

I put it into an empty tank which contained a beautiful selection of Anubis which HAD been happily growing on bogwood for about 5 years…

He has DESTROYED the plants, chewed them all to shreds and just spat the bits of leaf out!

I don't want to chuck them out, would it be best to remove all the chewed leaves (which would be 99.9% of them) so the plant can put its efforts into growing new leaves, what would be the ideal conditions for Anubis to thrive?

 

[Themuleous]

If its used to the tank its in leave it where it is, leave the few remaining leaves. Anubias are fairly reslilient, so it should bounce back.

Sam

EDIT - remove the fish though!

EDIT 2 - dont take this the wrong way but if the Jack Dempsey was in such a bad state should it have even been in your brothers tank with the other fish?

 

[sandfire]

If its used to the tank its in leave it where it is, leave the few remaining leaves. Anubias are fairly reslilient, so it should bounce back.

Sam

EDIT - remove the fish though!

EDIT 2 - dont take this the wrong way but if the Jack Dempsey was in such a bad state should it have even been in your brothers tank with the other fish?

Don’t worry I will not take it the wrong way, what you said is SO TRUE, The fish is going to be re-homed, once I have made it better.

My brother and I have multiple arguments, I tell him NOT to keep Green Terrors, Oscars and Jack Dempsey in one 4ft tank, (that's why I call it his Thunderdome....two fish enter, one fish leaves)

Unfortunately some 16 year old Saturday lad from the LFS told him they can live together as long as they were brought up from youngsters....I know utter RUBBISH, on so many levels!

But he will not listen to me (even though I have been keeping fish longer than that 15 year old has been alive) what do I know?

It was either I take the fish and try and make it better or it would be killed.

 

[Themuleous]

The wonder of LFS hey?