Hi all.
I'm not particularly knowledgable on fish and I am well aware of my stupidity in buying fish I don't know much about it, but I'm here for advice on how to take care of them now that I have them.
I used to have just an angel fish and a fancy goldfish which got along harmoniously despite me reading about angel fish being aggressive. Both have since died, and I stopped off in a fish store yesterday to have a look and ended up buying 2 fish that I had never seen before, thinking 'well I have an empty tank at home'. I live in Thailand and my translation from the woman was just 'bird fish' but doing some research they are parrot fish. One is red, one is yellow, and the red one is larger than the other with a missing/deformed tail. When I first put them in the tank yesterday they swam around a lot and mainly ignored each other, but today the red one is bothering the yellow one A LOT. He keeps nipping at her sides (gender unknown, just how I've been referring to them) and sort of pushing her up almost out of the water. The yellow one is being quite active in this video but from my observation is spending most the time mainly hanging out pushed up against one side of the tank while he swims around a lot.
Why is he fighting, to establish territory? The yellow one does not fight back at all. Do I need to remove one of them and keep them living separately, in which case what kind of fish would be better to house them with?
I'm not particularly knowledgable on fish and I am well aware of my stupidity in buying fish I don't know much about it, but I'm here for advice on how to take care of them now that I have them.
I used to have just an angel fish and a fancy goldfish which got along harmoniously despite me reading about angel fish being aggressive. Both have since died, and I stopped off in a fish store yesterday to have a look and ended up buying 2 fish that I had never seen before, thinking 'well I have an empty tank at home'. I live in Thailand and my translation from the woman was just 'bird fish' but doing some research they are parrot fish. One is red, one is yellow, and the red one is larger than the other with a missing/deformed tail. When I first put them in the tank yesterday they swam around a lot and mainly ignored each other, but today the red one is bothering the yellow one A LOT. He keeps nipping at her sides (gender unknown, just how I've been referring to them) and sort of pushing her up almost out of the water. The yellow one is being quite active in this video but from my observation is spending most the time mainly hanging out pushed up against one side of the tank while he swims around a lot.
Why is he fighting, to establish territory? The yellow one does not fight back at all. Do I need to remove one of them and keep them living separately, in which case what kind of fish would be better to house them with?