BRANDX
New Member
This is just a story about some recent excitement in a relatively boring tank...
My 15g has a Small Firemouth (2 1/2 in.), One Giant Danio, and three feeder Minnows that were never eaten and are now almost serious pet fish! Well, the 15g sits beside the TV. One night the largest of the Minnows who has a black spot on his face (he is almost the size of the danio 2 or 2 1/4 inches) gets in a fight with the danio!!
They are just going around and around taking turns biting at each other in the side. Neither of them have a big enough mouth to do any real damage, but neither of them knew that! I mean the constant intense swirling around each other at an amazing speed, like a tornado. These two are completely oblivious to everything around them. They are knocking other minnows out of the way, and only stopped to readjust their spinning course when they hit the Firemouth!
Now, my firemouth is far from aggressive with these other fish but he would put a mouth around a fin if he's provoked. The minnow and danio bounced their marry-go-round fight back to an open part of the tank. And I mean to tell you I was just like a big boxing match you could begin to tell at about ten minutes that they were both very tired. Taking water breaks and catching their breath and you could tell that the favored fish here to win would be the danio. They even have a rep for being fin nippers. But, just when he would try a little bit of a victory strut across the tank, that minnow would fly out and ram him. That minnow would not quit!! Keep in mind their is still no signs of physical damage to either fish, this is a pure bully-on-the-playground scrap.
I have now gone and gotten my wife and gone next door and brought my neighbor back to witness this craziness.
The minnow was visibly losing ground at about 12-13 minutes. The danio would start pushing the minnow sideways every other hit or so, the minnow would start to roll a bit on its side from the blow, but would somehow find the strength to come back and bite that danio's tail! Then the minnow would dish some blows of his own, and he's no slouch!!!
At fifteen minutes the danio is now hoping that the minnow will give up. NO such luck. The speed of the fight has slowed down a lot, they each take a second to go to a corner and come back, touch gloves and tornado at each other for another round.
They finally both swam opposite directions and moped around on separate sides of the tank for a few minutes
and now when they pass by each other their is an obvious show of respect from both of them for each other...like, that was not fun and I don't ever want to have to try that with you again!
Just thought some of you might like to hear about a fish conflict that didn't have to result in a death or a removal, even kind of inspiring that my little feeder fish is all grown up and holding his ground!
Ciao,
Brand
My 15g has a Small Firemouth (2 1/2 in.), One Giant Danio, and three feeder Minnows that were never eaten and are now almost serious pet fish! Well, the 15g sits beside the TV. One night the largest of the Minnows who has a black spot on his face (he is almost the size of the danio 2 or 2 1/4 inches) gets in a fight with the danio!!
They are just going around and around taking turns biting at each other in the side. Neither of them have a big enough mouth to do any real damage, but neither of them knew that! I mean the constant intense swirling around each other at an amazing speed, like a tornado. These two are completely oblivious to everything around them. They are knocking other minnows out of the way, and only stopped to readjust their spinning course when they hit the Firemouth!
Now, my firemouth is far from aggressive with these other fish but he would put a mouth around a fin if he's provoked. The minnow and danio bounced their marry-go-round fight back to an open part of the tank. And I mean to tell you I was just like a big boxing match you could begin to tell at about ten minutes that they were both very tired. Taking water breaks and catching their breath and you could tell that the favored fish here to win would be the danio. They even have a rep for being fin nippers. But, just when he would try a little bit of a victory strut across the tank, that minnow would fly out and ram him. That minnow would not quit!! Keep in mind their is still no signs of physical damage to either fish, this is a pure bully-on-the-playground scrap.
I have now gone and gotten my wife and gone next door and brought my neighbor back to witness this craziness.
The minnow was visibly losing ground at about 12-13 minutes. The danio would start pushing the minnow sideways every other hit or so, the minnow would start to roll a bit on its side from the blow, but would somehow find the strength to come back and bite that danio's tail! Then the minnow would dish some blows of his own, and he's no slouch!!!
At fifteen minutes the danio is now hoping that the minnow will give up. NO such luck. The speed of the fight has slowed down a lot, they each take a second to go to a corner and come back, touch gloves and tornado at each other for another round.
They finally both swam opposite directions and moped around on separate sides of the tank for a few minutes
and now when they pass by each other their is an obvious show of respect from both of them for each other...like, that was not fun and I don't ever want to have to try that with you again! Just thought some of you might like to hear about a fish conflict that didn't have to result in a death or a removal, even kind of inspiring that my little feeder fish is all grown up and holding his ground!
Ciao,
Brand
Don't get all ruffled on my account everybody! I have good news, I moved my Firemouth over to my 75g and he's doing fine. The other Danio is probably going 75g too, maybe this week. So, I am going to have another post on some "suggestions," suggestions on what some of you have done with your smaller tanks or can that even be addressed in the New World forum?
I want to hear the New World peoples comments because I have something in common with you and I like to hear your take on the stuff. Just like if I'm a dog person and I see two cats get into a fight in my front yard...I am not going to try to go find a cat person to tell about it; I am going to tell my dog people friends. Their view match some of my own, I can easily identify where they are coming from....You all get the picture. 
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