Iron Man
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I've owned all kinds of livebearers and found the swordtail (both male AND female) to be very territorial torwards each other. So aside from mating behavior, what is the most aggressive livebearer you've owned?
Most Aggressive Livebearer?
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theotheragentm
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I've really only found males to chase after males and females to chase off everything right before giving birth.
helterskelter
Livebearer Specilest
I've had the Pike livebearers in the past, Belonesox belizanus
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Is fish will only eat only live fish and they get to 12" for females and 5" for males
The females will eat the males if your unlucky was well!!!!
This is not a common livebearer though but it's just like a guppy in the fact that it produces live fry every month or so
Helter
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Is fish will only eat only live fish and they get to 12" for females and 5" for males
The females will eat the males if your unlucky was well!!!!
This is not a common livebearer though but it's just like a guppy in the fact that it produces live fry every month or so
Helter
theotheragentm
Fish Herder
Those are really cool. Females eating males...damn you!
nmonks
A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from
Iron Man --
You need to distinguish between two different things here. Do you mean predatory or aggressive? Pike livebearers are certainly predatory, but they aren't at all territorial or aggressive, and similar sized specimens will coexist happily enough... provided they don't get too hungry! But of course the most predatory livebearers are among the sharks, such as the great white (yep, a livebearer).
If you mean which livebearers fight among themselves, that's a different question. Halfbeaks probably earn a place at or close to the top of the list. Male wrestling halfbeaks have been used for "sporting" purposes in exactly the same way as bettas. They will certainly fight until they are exhausted, and if kept together will cause damage to one another. Broken beaks and split fins are not uncommon.
Some of the mosquitofish are remarkably aggressive, too. The common mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, is, for its size, as feisty as any cichlid. Males squabble, and both sexes will bully smaller fish, stealing food, robbing nests of eggs, nipping fins, and so on. Some of the splitfins (goodeids) are not dissimilar.
Cheers, Neale
You need to distinguish between two different things here. Do you mean predatory or aggressive? Pike livebearers are certainly predatory, but they aren't at all territorial or aggressive, and similar sized specimens will coexist happily enough... provided they don't get too hungry! But of course the most predatory livebearers are among the sharks, such as the great white (yep, a livebearer).
If you mean which livebearers fight among themselves, that's a different question. Halfbeaks probably earn a place at or close to the top of the list. Male wrestling halfbeaks have been used for "sporting" purposes in exactly the same way as bettas. They will certainly fight until they are exhausted, and if kept together will cause damage to one another. Broken beaks and split fins are not uncommon.
Some of the mosquitofish are remarkably aggressive, too. The common mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, is, for its size, as feisty as any cichlid. Males squabble, and both sexes will bully smaller fish, stealing food, robbing nests of eggs, nipping fins, and so on. Some of the splitfins (goodeids) are not dissimilar.
Cheers, Neale
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Iron Man
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Yea I should have said "fighting amongst themselves" or "territorial". Thanks for all your comments and keep them coming. I've been curious as with this question as I've noticed that for their size the various livebearers I've owned could be pretty aggressive. Mainly with mating behavior (male chasing female) but also with fighting amongst themselves.
The last livebearers I owned were swordtails and I had 1 male and 3 females in a 55 gallon live planted tank. The male was the most shy and rarely came out but the females fought amongst themselves constantly, as bad as malawi mbunas!
One female finally died from being so stressed and weakened (the smallest female of course). So I swore I'd never get livebearers again.
Anyway....was just curious as this isn't something talked about a lot.
The last livebearers I owned were swordtails and I had 1 male and 3 females in a 55 gallon live planted tank. The male was the most shy and rarely came out but the females fought amongst themselves constantly, as bad as malawi mbunas!
One female finally died from being so stressed and weakened (the smallest female of course). So I swore I'd never get livebearers again.
Anyway....was just curious as this isn't something talked about a lot.
theotheragentm
Fish Herder
[quote name='Iron Man' date='Jan 8 2007, 04:00 PM' post='1437748'Anyway....was just curious as this isn't something talked about a lot.[/quote]
It's normally not brought up because the most common livebearers are supposed to be community fish, meaning they get along. There is always the exception, which you seem to have gotten unfortunately.
It's normally not brought up because the most common livebearers are supposed to be community fish, meaning they get along. There is always the exception, which you seem to have gotten unfortunately.
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