question about bleeding heart tetra behavior

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Flower1982

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Before I ask my question I just want to say I hope everyone had a Merry Chrtistmas today. Hopefully you all got what you wanted :).

Now on to my bleeding heart tetra question. Two of my bleeding hearts tend to swim side by side and then they bump into each other (sorry I can't describe is very well. Anyway, I believe they are both males. I have 3 bleeding hearts I think I have 2 males and 1 female.
Here is a video of the two males (sorry for the noise in the background. that would be my birds chirping. If you listen carefully you'll hear my parrot joey say his name lol.) Do you guys know what they are doing? Are they trying to see who is more dominate?

http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/birdlover1982/?action=view&current=bleedingheartsmovie.flv
 
They are probably just showing off to each other and seeing who's more dominant. I've seen this kind of behavior with my discus.
 
I have 3 bleeding heart tetras right now. If I got 2 more would that be ok? The only thing that concerns me about getting more tetras is that the new tetras would be pretty small compared to the three i already have. The only ones that do the domination display are the 2 males i have. The female i have tends to stay out of it.
 
Perfectly normal. Males do the same with the females, as well. Just enjoy it...it's harmless.
 
Ok the other night I got 2 more bleeding heart tetra and i also got another bolivian ram. I suppose I should have gotten a third bleeding heart but the poor bolivian ram was the only one left in the tank and I thought it would been nice to have a pair. Anyway, Here are some pictures of the new bleeding hearts and the bolivian ram. Both of the new bleeding hearts are the same size I didn't get a picture of them together. So far they are all getting along. As soon as I put them in the tank they swam over the other bleeding hearts. They look so tiny compared the the other three i have lol.

The new bleeding hearts:
newfish.jpg


newfish2.jpg


Bolvian ram:
newfish3.jpg
 
The large fish is not, I think, a BH. I think it's possibly the related Bentos tetra or one of the other ones from the complex. BHs do have a very obvious red patch.
 
I'm pretty sure they are bleeding hearts. I admit the pictures of the larger ones aren't very good looking.
Here are some better pictures of the larger fish:
bleedinghearttetra4.jpg


bleedinghearts3.jpg


bleedinghearttetra.jpg
 
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