Hello everyone,
Im having some troubles with a cacatuoides male. he is really aggressive to other fish. Right now I have 3 tanks. 2 tanks are community tanks, the other tank is for the fry I get from my cacatuoides, swordtail and endler guppy. im not an active breeder, but I like to grow up my fry. I sell them to my local fish store. This male cacatuoides was not mine at first. I got it from my sisters boyfriend. he had it in a smaller tank (too small if you ask me), he killed about 5 fish in there. 3 corydoras and 2 cacatuoides females. his tank was too full, and he wanted to get rid of that fish. My second tank was just running well at that time, and had already introduced some fish (10 cardinal tetras, 3 endler guppy(2f, 1m)). so I took the male home, he got into the tank, he seems to do fine at first. he was just hanging around the big piece of wood, now he started to chase my tetras, attacks everyone of them who is close enough. for now it seems that the tank is big enough, and has a lot of plants in it, some wood, 2 halfs of a coconut. i have seen him chase the tetras for about 20 mins straight. He is also really big, atleast compared to my other male who is older. I have never seen anything like this in a cacatuoides. My other male is really peaceful, he never attacked other fish. the tank he is in is 80L. I hope someone can help me out, because i have no idea what to do. I wanted to introduce some females to him but im waiting with that for now.
Greetings,
TK27
Im having some troubles with a cacatuoides male. he is really aggressive to other fish. Right now I have 3 tanks. 2 tanks are community tanks, the other tank is for the fry I get from my cacatuoides, swordtail and endler guppy. im not an active breeder, but I like to grow up my fry. I sell them to my local fish store. This male cacatuoides was not mine at first. I got it from my sisters boyfriend. he had it in a smaller tank (too small if you ask me), he killed about 5 fish in there. 3 corydoras and 2 cacatuoides females. his tank was too full, and he wanted to get rid of that fish. My second tank was just running well at that time, and had already introduced some fish (10 cardinal tetras, 3 endler guppy(2f, 1m)). so I took the male home, he got into the tank, he seems to do fine at first. he was just hanging around the big piece of wood, now he started to chase my tetras, attacks everyone of them who is close enough. for now it seems that the tank is big enough, and has a lot of plants in it, some wood, 2 halfs of a coconut. i have seen him chase the tetras for about 20 mins straight. He is also really big, atleast compared to my other male who is older. I have never seen anything like this in a cacatuoides. My other male is really peaceful, he never attacked other fish. the tank he is in is 80L. I hope someone can help me out, because i have no idea what to do. I wanted to introduce some females to him but im waiting with that for now.
Greetings,
TK27