robertmarda
Aquarium Advice Freak
Today I moved my male silver lyretail molly from my 10 gallon tank to my 20 gallon tank.
I soon discovered that he and my blue powder dwarf gourami had taken an unfriendly interest in each other. I'm not sure who started it but both seemed to be aggressive toward the other. They circled each other often and I saw the molly lunge a couple times at the gourami and also the gourami move close to the molly. Since I have noticed the gourami being aggressive toward the smaller mollies in the tank and suspect he may have been responsible for some of the ones that have vanished, I put him in a breeding net in the 20 gallon tank to isolate him.
At this point I thought everything would be fine. But oh no, the molly wasn't through. He picked a fight with my 2 inch long algea eater, who also has an aggressive streak on occassion. He lunged at the algea eater who ran. The molly, satisfied, turned to swim away and the algea eater darted after him. He left just as fast when the molly turned on him again.
Now I can't find the algea eater anywhere in the tank. There are places for him to hide so I don't think these two will ever do any serious harm to each other.
I would never have expected this from a molly. Have any of you ever seen anything similar?
I think I'm going to find a new home for the gourami and after getting some other algea eaters I'll probably find a new home for the current one which I suspect will become more and more aggressive. Of course he may be just the right size for my 55 gallon tank so I could move him there.
I soon discovered that he and my blue powder dwarf gourami had taken an unfriendly interest in each other. I'm not sure who started it but both seemed to be aggressive toward the other. They circled each other often and I saw the molly lunge a couple times at the gourami and also the gourami move close to the molly. Since I have noticed the gourami being aggressive toward the smaller mollies in the tank and suspect he may have been responsible for some of the ones that have vanished, I put him in a breeding net in the 20 gallon tank to isolate him.
At this point I thought everything would be fine. But oh no, the molly wasn't through. He picked a fight with my 2 inch long algea eater, who also has an aggressive streak on occassion. He lunged at the algea eater who ran. The molly, satisfied, turned to swim away and the algea eater darted after him. He left just as fast when the molly turned on him again.
Now I can't find the algea eater anywhere in the tank. There are places for him to hide so I don't think these two will ever do any serious harm to each other.
I would never have expected this from a molly. Have any of you ever seen anything similar?
I think I'm going to find a new home for the gourami and after getting some other algea eaters I'll probably find a new home for the current one which I suspect will become more and more aggressive. Of course he may be just the right size for my 55 gallon tank so I could move him there.