Blue Acara Help!!

[Fishy_7]

Hope someone can explain this behaviour to me! I have a pair of Blue Acara that are quite large. I have recently re-housed them in a tank that is exclusively for them.

Got home tonight to find that they have spawned on a rock but they have began to lock their jaws aggressively. They have done each other quite a bit of damage! The females lower lip looks very mashed up, some blood. The male's head jas a cgunk missing where the female's mouth has locked on. Despite this, they continue to engage in thei rather violent activity.
Can anyone explain why they are doing this? They used to do it in the past but never caused so much damage to each other!!

I did a water change and added some Stress Coat to try to help their injuries...

Thanks.

 

[freddyk]

Whatever the reason is you'd better seperate them or install a dividor before the damage becomes fatal for one of them.

 

[max11180]

probably better to isolate the male.. in my acaras, the female always makes the better parent.. in fact my male is quite useless, think he has amnesia! He's supposed to be guarding and drifts off to see what she's up too
Leaving the fry wide open to whatevers close at the time.

 

[Warrior]

I would leave the male with them rather than the female as the male is always the better perant with cichlids really. Also if the female wants to lay eggs again she might kill off that first batch to make room for new ones whitch belive me, isnt to un-common.

 

[freddyk]

I would leave the male with them rather than the female as the male is always the better perant with cichlids really

This is a generalization, which makes it immediately wrong. Some species of cichlids the females is the only one who takes care of the fry, sometimes it's the males, and sometimes it's both. With Acara it's both, but I've heard of males taking over.