Homosexual Fish?

Fishfriend1

Fishfriend1

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This is a serious question, and not intended to be taken rudely in any manner, as my mom is also homosexual.

So, I have a little female German Blue Ram. After a week or so, I added a larger High Fin Female German Blue Ram. They kicked off together instantly, but then I had a tank based disaster, and the poor highfin died. I moved the older female GBR into my 20 long again, and then recently (about 1, 2 weeks ago) added a smaller then her male GBR. They haven't kicked off at all. She tried to kill him, then he tried to kill her. She's now spending all her time under some driftwood, while he swims around the main tank... I have no where else to put her except all alone in a 20gal tank with fake everything. Anyway, could she have preffered female fish to male fish, or is she just scared and upset over the death of her former friend?
 
She's probably just freaked out with so many changes in such a short period of time. And they are cichlids, they can be prone to violence.
 
actually fish can be homosexual. dolphins can and cichlids can too. get her another female see if that perks her up if not maybe shes just streesed like the above poster said.
 
This thread wins the award for most awkward thread lol
 
Male fish (male anything, really) add a whole different dynamic to social interaction. You can easily keep two or more female bettas together in the same tank and they will be fine, but you have to keep males separate or they will beat up the females unless the tank is big enough for everybody to have their own space. I think what happened is that your two female rams got along because they are both females, and there's no compulsion or need to mate. When a male was added in place of the second female, the whole dynamic changed. Sometimes two fish just don't get along. That's why when trying to establish a pair to breed that will get along, you buy 6 fish or so and let them pair off themselves. They are much happier choosing their own mate than having one forced on them, most of the time. There are all kinds of biological functions going on that humans can only partially comprehend when it comes to any creature choosing a mate.

Maybe your new male just doesn't cut it for the female. There is research that says that humans choose a mate based on pheromones detected by a tiny organ inside the nose. The pheromones are able to indicate all kinds of things about a persons health and genetics. Humans tend to choose a mate that has an opposite set of antibodies and disease resistances, which makes for a stronger and more disease-resistant offspring. Perhaps it is the same for fish. Maybe the female detects something in the male that she doesn't like.

If you really wanted to test if your fish is homosexual or not, you'd have to let her choose from several other males and females and see who she chose. Deciding she doesn't like one male doesn't really mean anything. Maybe he told her she looked fat, or that she should go get in the kitchen and make him a sammich!
 
lol, I see. Now I have more stuff to buy, don't I?
 
quite common really, ive had female convicts pair and lay eggs togther, ive had male livebearers trying to mate with other male livebearers ( dont know how common that is? ) all in all, i had a few cichlids mate with the same sex. so really it is common.
 
The male is probably too small. Some cichlid females are known to reject males that are smaller then them. Not sure if GBR's are one of those species.

I know with my Krib the female wouldn't even look at the male until he went through a little growth spurt and became bigger then her. Then they immediately paired up.
 
We were given 2 female angels that laid eggs together. We got a third young one that, by behavior, was a male. He'd flirt & shake but the girls weren't interested in him. It may have been the size difference or the old fish were set in their ways.

Male guppies & platys seem willing to mate with anything lol.
 
Fish are not homosexual. Fish develop a hierarchy among the species. Just because one seems to prefer another of the same sex means that the one of opposite sex doesn't cut the mustard (so to speak). It is important to them to be able to pass on their genes by means of a suitable partner. The laying of eggs is a method to entice a male to fertilize them. Females also have a hierarchy was do males. You can have a dominate female but that doesn't mean she has a penchant towards other of the same sex. Sometimes, the laying of eggs is to show how virile she is and worth mating to.

Just as you will have a dominate or subordinate males, you will also find a dom or sub female.
 
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