Glo Fish in Time-out

Mabel

Mabel

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May 10, 2007
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I had to put my Orange Glo Fish in Time-out today. While eating dinner I was monitoring the behavior of the Orange Glo Fish chasing and picking on my last Blood fin. Something almost killed the other Blood Fin; I took it to my fish lady because I was concerned it was ick but very happily it wasn't. She said that something had "beat it up".
So, How long can I keep the Glo Fish in the Breader Net?
 
GloFish are genetically modified zebra danios (danio rerio) and need to be kept in schools. Do you only have one Glofish? If so, this may be why it is nipping other fish. Nippy, active schooling fish such as danios will disperse aggression among themselves when kept in schools... otherwise, they may pick on other fish.
 
I have three Glo Fish. Pink, Orange, and yellow. So, Does anyone have a suggestion as to how long I can keep the nippy one in a breeders net? I had heard that if you confine the one that is aggravating the others for a time, it will help with the behavior.
 
I don't think the breeders net will get the 'reformed' effect your hoping for... :(

The net is very stressful to the fish. Personally I know of only 2 ways to address aggressive Danios: 1) Remove the agressor and hope the others don't become dominate aggressors in his absence, and 2) keep Danios in a school of 6+ (helps, but these fish are extremely active and 'nippy' by nature to fish of similar or smaller size).

I would not keep the Danio in the net for more than a day, 2 max.

What size tank and what is your stock? This can also play a factor.
 
I have a 35 gallon tank with: 3 pricillas, 3 Glo Fish, 2 skirted tetras (Fruities), 2 Glass Cats, 1 Tri-colored Shark, 1 weather loach, 1 neon (last of his tribe), and now 1 blood fin (last of his tribe too), 1 farthwala (stick pleco), 1 albino Cory that is the size of a man's thumb (he has been the same size for almost 2 years). Under gravel filter and rear tank filter, bubble veil wand and 3-4" of fine Gravel.
 
I did nurse a beat up malawi back to health in a breeder net - he stayed in there for 2 weeks. But he was poorly, therefore quite inactive.

If you put him in the breeder put some decor in there two - a small fake plant or two - slightly less stressful.
 
I am thinking that I will take him out tonight and figure out what to do with my three Glo Fish. I want more Neon's but the blood fin's I don't think I want anymore. I will probably give the pricilla's away too.
 
The concept of "time out" doesn't work for fish. Your stocking includes several single specimens that do much better in schools. Cories, tetras, loaches, all these prefer the safety of a school. Only then will they behave as they should. Your "glofish" is no exception. Danios alone are a pain, but a bunch of them usually confine their nippiness to each other. If you can't afford a bunch more glofish, then just get some plain zebra danios. The glofish doesn't realize that the hand of man has remade it in some unnatural way, so it won't know that it isn't a zebra danio. The rest of the school might pick on it though, due it it being abnormal and assumed to be deformed..
 
my three Glo Fish are very healthy and large compared to the others that I have seen at any of the local LFS's so, I might just sell them back to them. Considering I paid 5.50 a piece for them back in November I should be able to get at least that amount back out of them if not more. I think I have 2 females and 1 male. I read that the females are plump in the middle and the males are thin and sleek looking.
 
Isn't 3 a crowed? If someone keeps schooling fish in a tank in groups of three and they are of the same (Tetra), why is that not a good thing?
 
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