Recent Convict Aggression

I didn't get much of a choice. The guy scooped out a male and female as i had asked for. Now, I'm wondering if I leave her alone in the tank and put him in another until he grows up to a bigger boy and re-introduce him, do you think time away might help her forget he's not quite her cup of tea?
Is it love at first sight or shall I walk by again?
so to speak?
 
That sounds doable. Maybe try beef him up, but cut back on her feedings a little bit untill he is a little larger than she is. One of the studies cited in a book I read dealt with a cichlid species where the sizes of the sexes overlapped (largest female could be bigger than the smallest male). However when they looked at who was pairing up they noticed that the the males were always the larger of the pair, and when they measured the difference between the male and female in a pair, they got a fairly constant ratio so that you could almost predict who would pair up from a given group of fish based on thier sizes. The book was The Cichlid Fishes, by Barlow. Most of his personal studeis were done on midas cichlids, but he cites studies on many other cichlids. It's a great read if you ever come across a copy.
 
Thank you very much, I'd hate to lose him. He's a nice looiking fish with what will eventually be beautiful finnage too.
I will look out for the Barlow book.
I'll separate him for awhile. I think he's just a bit too tiny and not aggressive enough for her tastes (wimmen eh?). I'll feed him well and se what happens.
Being alone and well fed might bring him out of his shell.
 
Convicts

Most will disagree with me on this but ive found that a green terror works to keep my fish under control because he just cant leave other fish alone the convicts spent most of there time teaming up on him tell thay just became unceprable so try this it works great

in my 40gallon

Look here 40gallon.blogspot.com

2 Convicts
1 Green Terror
1 Guppy
3 Black Skirt Tetra
3 Red eye Tetra
3 Seapia Tetra
1 Butterfly Ram
 
Sad news, I lost the male tonight. I moved im to a temp. tank and he jumped.
I came home to find him on the floor, too late he was long gone when I got h
ome from work :thud:

I'll be looking for another male and keep on trying. This time a larger more robust man I think :(
 
Well, I got another well colored male. He's stil smaller than her by a half inch or so and she did the same thing. It was good for 20 minutes before she started harrassing him. Its another small male, so I've got him in my 66g until he gains a bit of size.
I think size is the issue. Yessssss. I'll try and bulk him out and reinroduce in a month or so.......
I've never seen this before. Lol, I'm in a whole new world....sick-lids ;)
 
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