Today is not a good day in my world.
I've been in all weekend, trying to get work done, and had one of the most frustrating weekends I've had so far. On Monday I had to take two of my male eye biters out of the tank (they had fought badly between Sunday night and Monday morning). I knew it would happen eventually, so that wasn't so bad. This left one male with four females and I thought everything would be fine, and it was at first. On Wednesday afternoon, I noticed a female had spawned, so I caught her and put her in isolation (I have to isolate females after spawning so that I can catch the babies the day they are released). Everything was fine. Friday night I left at 5:30, the male and the three females were fine. Came in Saturday morning at 11 and couldn't find one of the females. I fed my babies and decided if she wasn't out by 3 PM when I did the second feed on the babies, I would take the tank apart to find her. Well, I went back down at 2:30 and the tech told me that he'd removed a female because she was floating belly up, still breathing but badly beaten. I moved her to a bigger isolation tank, dosed with some stress coat and some salt and hoped for the best (high restrictions on medication use in the Uni). I came in today and she looked awful, barely breathing, actively bleeding, and looking awful. I did a salt dip and she seemed to perk up a bit, but I doubted she'd make it through the night. The second female has large bites taken out of her tail, but has been recovering. The male is awful. I'm furious. One male and three females in a 90 gallon tank and he decided to go psycho and attempt to kill all of his ladies. I went down to check at 5 today and sure enough she'd passed on. I've attached some pics to show just how badly she was beaten.
The most frustrating part of this, is that now I have one male and one female in a 90 gallon tank, a female in isolation 'til she releases babies, another female in isolation til her bites heal, and two males in isolation. The techs want the males back in the main tank, but I cannot have three males and one female in the same tank. They'll destroy each other if not her. . . any suggestions? I've rearranged the decor every day to try to stop the fighting and it doesn't seem to have helped...
I've been in all weekend, trying to get work done, and had one of the most frustrating weekends I've had so far. On Monday I had to take two of my male eye biters out of the tank (they had fought badly between Sunday night and Monday morning). I knew it would happen eventually, so that wasn't so bad. This left one male with four females and I thought everything would be fine, and it was at first. On Wednesday afternoon, I noticed a female had spawned, so I caught her and put her in isolation (I have to isolate females after spawning so that I can catch the babies the day they are released). Everything was fine. Friday night I left at 5:30, the male and the three females were fine. Came in Saturday morning at 11 and couldn't find one of the females. I fed my babies and decided if she wasn't out by 3 PM when I did the second feed on the babies, I would take the tank apart to find her. Well, I went back down at 2:30 and the tech told me that he'd removed a female because she was floating belly up, still breathing but badly beaten. I moved her to a bigger isolation tank, dosed with some stress coat and some salt and hoped for the best (high restrictions on medication use in the Uni). I came in today and she looked awful, barely breathing, actively bleeding, and looking awful. I did a salt dip and she seemed to perk up a bit, but I doubted she'd make it through the night. The second female has large bites taken out of her tail, but has been recovering. The male is awful. I'm furious. One male and three females in a 90 gallon tank and he decided to go psycho and attempt to kill all of his ladies. I went down to check at 5 today and sure enough she'd passed on. I've attached some pics to show just how badly she was beaten.
The most frustrating part of this, is that now I have one male and one female in a 90 gallon tank, a female in isolation 'til she releases babies, another female in isolation til her bites heal, and two males in isolation. The techs want the males back in the main tank, but I cannot have three males and one female in the same tank. They'll destroy each other if not her. . . any suggestions? I've rearranged the decor every day to try to stop the fighting and it doesn't seem to have helped...