Mahlhavoc
11-27-2005, 2:27 AM
Ok, so I went out and got my first two real fish last week, two ys maroons. Well from all my previous knowledge and reading, you should get em young or one 3 times smaller than the other and introduce em slowly through glass.
Welp, I got one about 3" and the other about 2 1/2". . yeah yeah I know, should of been a blood bath by day two, but it wasn't! The smaller one bowed down to the larger and now they seem (so far) inseperable! They seem to be pairing up and it tickles me pink. Man I was praying they wouldn't be both females and kill each other, even tho I have read "two females wont be hospitable" and "a male alone long enough will be female and can't go back to male" and then heard "females can go back male", and that you can only pair 'em "if they are two thirds different in size", and that "any maroon over 2" alone is surely a female" I have heard so many differring opinions...And yet here I am :)
YS Maroon are by far my faves because of their size and attitudes so I took the only two my friend had in his shop, what patience? LOL
Anyhow, for those of you that know what I am referring to, this is something I thought I would share because of the fact it should be a no go and could of led to bloodshed.
Welp, I got one about 3" and the other about 2 1/2". . yeah yeah I know, should of been a blood bath by day two, but it wasn't! The smaller one bowed down to the larger and now they seem (so far) inseperable! They seem to be pairing up and it tickles me pink. Man I was praying they wouldn't be both females and kill each other, even tho I have read "two females wont be hospitable" and "a male alone long enough will be female and can't go back to male" and then heard "females can go back male", and that you can only pair 'em "if they are two thirds different in size", and that "any maroon over 2" alone is surely a female" I have heard so many differring opinions...And yet here I am :)
YS Maroon are by far my faves because of their size and attitudes so I took the only two my friend had in his shop, what patience? LOL
Anyhow, for those of you that know what I am referring to, this is something I thought I would share because of the fact it should be a no go and could of led to bloodshed.