Shebunken Question

[LisaB]

A friend of mine has 6 Shebunken goldfish in her outdoor pond. She has had them since last summer. They all survived their first Maine winter. For the past couple of days 5 of the fish are attacking and chasing another goldfish. She is exhausted and she has had to isolate her.

Does anyone have any advise? They haven't ripped her fins, I just just think they terrorized and exhausted the poor fish.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lisa

[Jessu]

Is the other fish smaller? If so, She may need her own tank until shes the same size of the others.

[captainpiratebo]

is there any size diffrence in the fish?

[LisaB]

Nope they are all the same size...

Lisa

[lucky777ca]

Maybe the fish that was being chased was a female, while the others are males? Since they have overwintered and now the temps are slowly rising again, it would induce the spawning behaviour between the fishes. It's just a possibility.

[LisaB]

That makes perfect sense. She is going to try to order some more females, but the local fish store says they can't order them that way.

Lisa

[Mr. U]

Hi Lisa,
I used to have half barrels that poured water into eachother, and I had couple of shubunkin in each of them. The spawning attempts got so bad between one set of the Shubunkin, the female jumped out into a lower barrel. The male followed afterware! If your female is healthy, you got fish "jigginess" going on :)
Mr. U

[LisaB]

Well she tried putting the female back in with the males on Saturday and they went after her again. She separated them (the poor female sulked all day she said) and tried again yesterday. She said it was like night and day. They were all just hanging out. LOL So far so good!!!

Lisa

[Dangerdoll]

what's the size of this pond?

[Tesla_HV]

Plants, such as anacharis to hide behind?

[LisaB]

No plants yet, but she will get some. The pond is 19ft by 16ft by 4ft deep.

Lisa