Fighting Fish

[omega59]

i have two female platies in my 10gal and they are always chasing one another, poking and making their stance to fight beside one another. How do i get them to stop fighting??

 

[Colin_T]

sounds like they are just displaying. Unless they are doing physical damage to each other I wouldn't worry about it

make sure there are some plants in there to provide cover, that might help reduce the bickering

 

[omega59]

i have two plants in the corner only. they poke eachother pretty harshy.

 

[5teady_2012]

Are you sure they are both 100% female?

 

[Mikaila31]

My female swords do the same thing. Adding more plants and other objects can help reduce the aggression. Or you can move one to another tank.

 

[rmanpf]

one of them could be a late blooming male - the gonopapodium has not fully developed and it turns out its a male. it happened to me, i bought one male and one female platy, both ended up being male

 

[LauraFrog]

I had the same sort of situation going on in a tank that I was using as an overflow for all the fish that wouldn't fit in my other tanks - I had two platies that were always fighting. I stuck four more females in there and those two bossed the group around, but the fin nipping stopped.

 

[omega59]

no, they are both female LOL.

 

[omega59]

okay i think i know the problem here. theya re both preggers. lol.

 

[5teady_2012]

Just because they are pregnant does not mean they should be fighting.

If its to a extent that one is to stressed, you will have to part them altogether.

 

[omega59]

hi 5teady.

i will give them a little more time together as i plan on adding a few males and females to the tank

btw, were you able to add my video to your website yet?

 

[5teady_2012]

hi 5teady.

i will give them a little more time together as i plan on adding a few males and females to the tank

btw, were you able to add my video to your website yet?

I will be updating the video site sometime tomorrow, could you pm the link to your vid again please m8

 

[omega59]

hehe of course silly

 

[5teady_2012]

Omega, can you post them links, my dumbass delted my pm forgetting to save the links beforehand

 

[omega59]

sure thing funny man,

http/s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee187/o...rrent=test2.flv
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