Albino sharks playing?

Maj0rFiSh

Maj0rFiSh

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I have 2 alibino sharks, they sometimes like to wriggle around together, are they mating do you think?

They chase each other around alot, just playing, but i have seen them lately wriggling around together and rubbing up against each other, anyone have these fish and seen them do similar things?
 
I have one rainbow shark in my 50g tank and was told when I bought him that they really should be kept singley unless you keep at least 6 of them, basically as I understand it the more dominant of your two sharks will pick on the other one so in order to make sure no one shark gets pickled on you need at least 6 in a group. Rainbow sharks can grow to about 9" so if you had 6 you'd probably need a very large aquarium.

From information I've read sharks tend to do what your describing i.e. wiggle nedxt to each other, I can't say for sure if this will get worse and if they'll eventtually turn into a full blown attack but I do know they generally get more aggressive as they grow larger, on the off chance you have two tanks it might be worth seperating them, as I presume at the moment there not keen on seeing each other probably cos they're bumping into each other all the time. I know certainly rainbow and red-tail sharks generally have a more severe intolerance of their own kind than they do other species of fish.
 
The thing is i knew that they arent really ment to be together, yet they dont really attack each other, there is one that is more dominant, but wriggling around together cant mean he/she is hurting or attacking each other can it?

One chases the other but gives up very quick, or if he does catch up, dosent do anything the just stop, it seems like they are playing more than anything, like hide and seek lol.
 
I'm still gonna go with my original theory, I very much doubr there playing, its more likely the dominant one is getting annoyed by the other shark and is trying to chase it away. Almost any website you care to read on Rainbow sharks clearly says keep them alone (i.e. one shark) or keep a group of at least 6, do some researxch yourself, as I say I've recently got one too and tried to find info on these fish, to be honnest its not very much, for some reason theres a general lack of info especally on rainbow sharks. However from the scraps I have read, you need substancial tank room because the thing about all these sharks is thee are teretorial and like to establish certain areas of your tank as their own, say a piece of pipe or driftwood etc. I've no idea what size these sharks are of yours I presume they are still young ????.

Like I said in my last post they do generally get more agressive as they get older, I notice you say you have two tanks, why not put one of your sharks in the new tank. Even if not for the sake of them fighting each other their eventual size will mean they outgrow 14/16g tanks quite quickly and really you'd be looking at a 40-50g tank just for each fish. But anyws have a look at this link it seems to be the most helpful of anything I can find.

http://www.****************/catalog_pages/sharks_eels_loaches/shark_rainbow.htm
 
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Vyper said:
I'm still gonna go with my original theory, I very much doubr there playing, its more likely the dominant one is getting annoyed by the other shark and is trying to chase it away. Almost any website you care to read on Rainbow sharks clearly says keep them alone (i.e. one shark) or keep a group of at least 6, do some researxch yourself,
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Thanks for the help, but i must say mate, i research all day and night on this stuff as its a new hobbie, i must have read hundreds of pages of info in the last 4 weeks, and i have already read that these fish re better off alone than with one of their own species, i just wanted to see if anyone else had more than 1 together...
 
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