Re: Murder in the Malawi Tank

matt wrote:
"Gill Passman" <gillnosapmatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43268552$0$38046$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Hey, i've had 2 yellow labs be "murdered" in my tank too. I originally came to this NG to find out what happened to the first, but found out it was one of my demasoni's picking on him. I bought a larger one to repalce him, but the second one died, leaving just hte larger one. So far he's been ok. He's about a 1/2" larger than the others. All the labs were larger than the demasonis. THis week he killed yet another fish. I'm not sure what to do about this agressive fish. In any case, the yellow labs are on the less agressive side, and having a larger one seems to help.

I remember that posting. Weren't you thinking of swopping out the Demasonis?



I swapped out the aggressive demasoni and my tank is much happier. In fact, i'm not even sure which is the dominate. the two demasonis have the same color. In any case, no one is picking on anyone.

-matt 


Glad to hear you problem got sorted :-)

My two seem to have drawn up an imaginary line across the tank which only gets crossed for feeding time or chasing of one of the others. In fact we have observed one of them herding all the other fish into the other one's half of the tank. The ragged female is making a good recovery and starting to grow her tail back...

Gill
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