Cannibals

[Whitey]

I just returned from work to find a gang of my fish including a yellow lab, murdering a fellow yellow lab including eating his eyes.

 

[Nick Sw]

Wow sorry to hear it, I`ve only got my first fish Friday and I`ve been explaining to people about there aggression and lack of tolerance to other fish one of the questions was how do they kill each other ? So they physically set about biting a fellow fish to death ?

 

[brewyn]

There wont be one person out there without a mbuna cichlid that has been nipped or pecked, chances are was that your lab was a dominent or subdominent fish that has lost its status and its become pay back time.

 

[barkzz]

I have found when a cichlid loses its place in the pecking order all the lower fish take a shot at him/her to see if the can gain a rank in the aquarium.

( take em while they are weak)

 

[Ferris]

Most species will actually pick on a fish that is weak or ill as they attract predators. I suspect the lab in question was either extremely sub-dominant or suffering from an infection/disease. Once a fish is dead, it just becomes a source of food so it could have been intact when it died and the rest have basically been eating it.

 

[Sp3nc3r]

or maybe like most other fish *even guppies* the fish was pretty much dead and they were just eating it


go to walmart you'll see what im talking about

 

[Neal]

go to walmart you'll see what im talking about

Now that made me laugh! Anyway, sorry for your losses, but it may have already been dead like some other people have said, most fish won't turn away a fresh meaty meal, even if it was their buddy throughout life!

Neal