Golden Angels

mike190762

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Hi Folks, I have 2 golden angels in my tank. I have had them for about 8 months. The last few weeks one has started to bully the other one.

It has pecked most of the scales off and it's eyes are very glazed.

I'm afraid I may lose it before long, is there anything I can do to stop the bullying or just wait for nature to take it's course?
 
If your tank is large enough, add some more (an even number) angels of a similar size and this will solve your problem pretty much permanently. You can always remove any extra fish once you have 2 that pair up. It sounds like yours have reached or are reaching sexual maturity and have begun to show more aggression towards each other. If you are lucky, this will pass and they'll pair up. If not, as they may both be the same sex, you'll have some aggression like this indefinately. How big is the tank? In a bigger, more heavily planted one, the less dominant fish should have places to hide to get away and would not come to much harm. However, it sounds like your fish does not have any retreats as it sounds very stressed. Letting 'nature take her course' is not a good idea. For one, keeping fish in a tank is by no means natural in itself. Letting nature take her course under such artificial circumstances is likely to lead to the unecessary death of one of the angels. A good idea would be to seperate them into 2 different tanks and then re-introduce them in a couple of days, having re-aranged this tank, and see what happens. It'll probably only be a temporary solution though. Alternatively, remove one from this tank permanently. As lone angels can become aggressive towards their non-angel tankmates, it would be best to remove the more aggressive one so the more placid one, which is less likely to bully tankmates, is left behind.
 
Thanks for that sylvia, unfortunately I only have the one tank as I'm relatively new to fish keeping.

I inherited my tank, fish and all off a friend who was moving.

The tank is 130L and as I've been told on numerous occasions well over stocked.

I could always see if my colleague in work can take it one off my hands as they have several tanks.
 

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