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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / January 2007Electric Blue Sibling Canabalism
I have had three juvenilles lost due to other juvenilles munching them. In each case, only the head was eaten off. Is this just a case of the poor blighters being hungry or is it a case of them sorting out the pecking order? If this is the case, am I losing my males? >I have had three juvenilles lost due to other juvenilles munching them. In >each case, only the head was eaten off. > > Is this just a case of the poor blighters being hungry or is it a case of > them sorting out the pecking order? If this is the case, am I losing my > males? hmmmm..... I'd say your losing the runts how big are these fry? prob more chicks than anything....... >>I have had three juvenilles lost due to other juvenilles munching them. In >>each case, only the head was eaten off. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > how big are these fry? > prob more chicks than anything....... Strangely, they don't seem to be the smallest fish. They are average or a little above average. This is why I was wondering if it were the bigger males killing the smaller males. I'm hopeless at estimating size but I think they are about three cm long. The biggest ones may be 4 cm and are just getting a touch of blue on their anal fins. I added a heap of new rocks and stuff to the tank and I think this has reduced the problem. The first few all had their heads eaten off. I have saved a couple with their tails eaten off and dumped them into a tank with smaller fry. >>>I have had three juvenilles lost due to other juvenilles munching them. >>>In each case, only the head was eaten off. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > The first few all had their heads eaten off. I have saved a couple with > their tails eaten off and dumped them into a tank with smaller fry. could be but unusual at that small size. I'd increase frequency of feeding, lower the temp a bit and either add more ornaments or remove them all. That should chill them out a bit!! Beware of baby electric blues eating other fry too! Until you see one make a kill treat it all as suspicious, test the water for ammonia and nitrite. Chuck some shellgrit or coral or marble or something in incase pH crash...... hmmm I dunno...... But I imagine it's all in hand mate. Play the numbers, sometimes the weak just die. life goes on. :) |
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