My Monos Are Mean

[jonny5]

so my golden wonder killi was getting a little big for my FW tank, i think he ate one of my small celebes rainbows. So i moved him to the brackish tank where a another full grown golden wonder killi resides. Well i acclimated him for 2 hours and then put him in. The new golden wonder is about 2-2 1/2 inches and quite fat. Anywho at first the big killi checked her out and the newly added one kinda stayed at the top trying to get used to its new environment.

I come back 3 minutes later to find the new guy on the bottom with a few scales chuncked out and half his caudel fin nipped. I wondered who did this only to see my trio of monos go in for another round of bullying this guy.

I got my killifish reacclimating back to FW now but to mean its strage how mean the monos were considering i have a florida flagfish in with them that is smaller than the killi i tried to introduced.

Just sharing my experience here.

 

[nmonks]

Monos can be aggressive, and it's normally recommended you keep them with fast-moving or robust tankmates. They generally work fine with scats, archers, catfish, brackish water cichlids, damselfish, and virtually any hardy marine fish. I'm not altogether surprised they nipped at slow-moving, surface swimming killifish. The problem is that your Asian killifish hardly move at all, and sit there at the top of the tank looking edible. Given that Asian killifish are, at best, low-end brackish water fish, whereas monos are brackish to marine fish, you'd have needed to keep them in separate tanks anyway.

Cheers, Neale

 

[jonny5]

Monos can be aggressive, and it's normally recommended you keep them with fast-moving or robust tankmates. They generally work fine with scats, archers, catfish, brackish water cichlids, damselfish, and virtually any hardy marine fish. I'm not altogether surprised they nipped at slow-moving, surface swimming killifish. The problem is that your Asian killifish hardly move at all, and sit there at the top of the tank looking edible. Given that Asian killifish are, at best, low-end brackish water fish, whereas monos are brackish to marine fish, you'd have needed to keep them in separate tanks anyway.

Cheers, Neale

ah ya ic. I have had the salinity up towards 25% sea water and the killifish seemed to have done fine but i sappose i am pushing it.