Female Fighters Chasing Others And There Own! Help!

[damovts]

hey all, some of ya might of saw my thread about my male fighter now he is in the tank on his own

and took some people's advice to add 3 more females to our previously 2 females

BUT EMERGENCY!!

We just did a 50% water change due to high ammonia and noticed that a harlequinn is now dead *maybe due to high ammonia*.. and a neon tetra has a half of his back fin taken off!!

Would this be the females?

Also the females are stil chasing each other

Do i have to let them all settle in for the newly welcomed.

P.s our females are with the following

Neon Tetra's
Harlequinns
Bleeding Hearts
Silvertip's *look like big ish terta's but orange*
Peppered Cory's

None of them are nipping each other ... its just the females now chasing the other's or chasing each other

 

[Colin_T]

If you have an ammonia reading then stop feeding the fish for a few days. Then only feed them a small amount every couple of days until the ammonia and nitrite is gone.
In the mean time do a daily 50% water change to keep the levels low so there is less stress to the fishes.

Female fighters don't normally fight or chase each other so if they are displaying, flaring out their gills and fins, then they are probably males and should be separated from each other.
You can try putting some floating plants in the tank and this might help. Plastic plants can be put in and will float.

 

[damovts]

Thnaks for the advice. we have been doing water changes and it is going down slowly.

We are trying to discover if one of our fish are female or males, so if you have any idea on determining it we have pictures of what it looks like in this thread: http/www.fishforums.net/content/Bettas/2...A-Female-s-s-s/

Thanks