my male jag snapped

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I not sure why he snapped but he mauled the female pretty bad. there is usually egg crate between them in their 75G but I decided to put in 2 huge pieces of driftwood to waterlog it, in preparation for their 6 footer 100G tank, which is here already, but the stand isn't finished yet.

1 night was all it took, she is in bad shape. a ton of scales missing & fungus starting to grow everywhere now, it seems. she is in a quarantine 10G tank now in an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial bath. hope she pulls thru...

wonder why he snapped & why she couldn't defend herself this time? she has been pretty resistant before, dishing out as much as she took... not this time though, he doesn't have a single scratch on him?! but he is a little bigger then her now... he's 9", she's 8" now. makes me wonder if they'll make it unseparated in the 100G.... may need some target fish...
 
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I'm sorry to hear that. :(

I have a pair of oscars that did that. Best of friends for the longest time and then one night after a water change, I discovered Nicholas trying kill poor Armand. Armand didn't fight back much and I had to pull him out. I have no idea why they snap like that either. I told the story to my mother and she suggested maybe one said something the other didn't like. :D ;)
After about a week, I put Armand back into the tank and they have been perfect buddies ever since. You just never know.
 
Male Jaggs get soo teritorial when they hit the 8-9" mark
 
the anti-fungal/bacteria bath really helped her. the big fungus puffs have fallen/faded off. but the damage is visible now. she is missing scales from parts of her body, BARE FLESH is visible. OUCH!!! it's gonna take a while to recover from that. she hasn't eaten yet since the incident.... hmmm I wonder if the red devil in the other ad-joining 75G ticked off the male jag... see the red devil always flares at the female jag, however when I took off the egg crate, the male jag could now see the devil when he went over to her side....
 
she's close to 100% healed now. wow took almost 1 month to heal up. I finally took her out of the 10G quarantine tank yesterday. changed her water once, sometimes twice a week while adding anti-fungal med & some salt. sure enuff she grew scales back to cover up all the de-scaled areas. if u 1st saw her w/all the open & fungal(ed) areas, u may think she wouldn't make it.
 
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