Kribs

[littlenemo]

Taken female out will make still be aggressive on his own.

 

[BETTY BOO]

Kribs have immensely individual personalities, from what I've seen. typically a lone krib is well behaved in a community setting, the aggression really comes out when they are paired off an spawning.see how he goes. what other fish do you have??

 

[littlenemo]

Neons rams catfish angels Molly's assassins apples

 

[BETTY BOO]

all those fish should do fine.just see how he goes

 

[Gilli]

I have a male krib who is an ungrateful grumpy old git! I bought 2 very young ones about 18 months ago and was assured they were male and female but as they grew on both turned out to be males, so I then bought another female (by this time I could tell the difference better than the fish shop assistant!) to see if one of the males would pair up intending to take the spare male back. She paired with one but as all was peaceful as i have a large 250L tank and plenty of space I kept the other male. But I always felt sorry for him as he occasionally tried to court the female but was told off by both of them!. About 6 months ago (18 months down the line) my female died, and last week her mate also passed away for no apparent reason.

I was in the fish shop this week and spotted a beautiful female in a bunch of males and thought id give my batchelor a real treat and get him a mate as he'd missed out the first time round. (Once again I knew and the shop assistant didnt have a clue! ) So far shes been in the tank for 3 days and he hates her! Wouldn't you think he'd be thrilled ? Luckily there is plenty of space so im hoping he will accept her in time as shes coloured up beautifully and is much smaller than him which is supposed to be a good thing.

So much for being kind to your fish - i wish i hadn't bothered!

 

[Gilli]

Krib update - my grumpy male has decided that the female is good enough for him after all! He has stopped chasing her aggressively around the tank and is now letting her follow him about. When she does wander off he now goes looking for her. Ive seen her dispalying to him but not him to her yet. She really is a pretty little thing so he should count himslef lucky!

 

[Mowbz]

Funny things, Kribs. I had a small group to get a pair, there was a fight and 2 didnt make it. I too ended up with 1 female and 2 males. I too thought it would be alright as they are in a 340, plenty of space for the two males to establish as their own, and the female can pick. She eventually picked the larger of the two, and had one lot of fry. About two weeks past the fry hatching, she killed him. The fry were subsequently eaten by the remaining male, before they had a batch of their own. Same thing happened, 2 weeks later, found him at the bottom too, no signs of illness. I can only assume she killed him too.

I picked her up a new mate at a LFS yesterday, over 3" so much larger than the first two, and her, im hoping this isnt going to be an ongoing thing.

I generally find the females are the ones that do the majority of the nipping etc, so i imagine removing her wont stop the male being agresive with the others, unless its because they have eggs somewhere.

 

[Gilli]

The new Mrs Krib

 

[littlenemo]

she really nice. my male on his own has calmed down now he seems to have a new friend my large angle fish lol they follow each other everywere there so funny

 

[gregswimm]

Taken female out will make still be aggressive on his own.

What size tank do you have (or more importantly what are the dimensions of the bottom)?

My tank is 30"x12". I have a pair of kribs and had aggression problems. I added more cover (in the way of lots of live plants and a total of 5 caves all in caves u dug out under pieces of driftwood. Make sure you add something large in the middle of the tank that will block view of the entire tank from one side (so your fish cannot see across your tank) this will help divide up territories. Large diameter pipes pressed into the soil so they are laying flat but slightly underground makes great krib caves (i have personally never had much success with clay pots). Live food seems to make the aggression worse, but it does encourage spawning and nice colors.

 

[chenks222ahh]

Taken female out will make still be aggressive on his own.