I've got a 55gallon all male tank that I've been working on for quite some time. Originally I had stocked lithobates, electra, ruby red, baenschi, maylandi, ngara flametail, and lwanda.
I found my lwanda to be too aggressive and removed him and then of course everything was fine. few weeks later my ruby red is the new boss and pushing fish into the upper corners and stressing everyone out. So I decided to do a big change and got rid of him and the sulfur head who was really really beat up and added a swallowtail, a red shoulder, and an azureus. Everything was great for a few months, everyone was showing great color (these are all young adults at about 3 inches) Then all of a sudden my azureus and red shoulder began to slowly become more subdominant while my electra out of nowhere went from one of the middle fish to the big bully.
sooo.. as you guessed now my electra is causing a bunch of stress, my azureus is all black almost showing no color, and my red shoulder is greyed out for the most part and both are hiding in the top corners the majority of the time.
so what should I do? upgrade to a bigger tank or do I need to remove fish or add more fish? maybe a group of acei or something? I'm so out of ideas =\
im beginning to think haps and peacocks are just not for me
I found my lwanda to be too aggressive and removed him and then of course everything was fine. few weeks later my ruby red is the new boss and pushing fish into the upper corners and stressing everyone out. So I decided to do a big change and got rid of him and the sulfur head who was really really beat up and added a swallowtail, a red shoulder, and an azureus. Everything was great for a few months, everyone was showing great color (these are all young adults at about 3 inches) Then all of a sudden my azureus and red shoulder began to slowly become more subdominant while my electra out of nowhere went from one of the middle fish to the big bully.
sooo.. as you guessed now my electra is causing a bunch of stress, my azureus is all black almost showing no color, and my red shoulder is greyed out for the most part and both are hiding in the top corners the majority of the time.
so what should I do? upgrade to a bigger tank or do I need to remove fish or add more fish? maybe a group of acei or something? I'm so out of ideas =\
im beginning to think haps and peacocks are just not for me