As for the 'bows, I have only had one bad experience with an aggressive
female, and that was when I separated out my beautiful pair of
rubrostriata to breed them. In the tank, the male rubro and the male
wanam were the two dominant fish, and did they ever hate one another! The
female was a very large and beautiful specimen, but gave no real hint of
being that aggressive while in the community tank. However, when I put
the pair together into a large tank (w/ lots of mops) to spawn them, she
beat the male up so badly that I couldn't save him. Then, just to rub it
in I think, she layed a huge pile of eggs on the sponge filter! Wretched
fish! I only had the pair, so I never did get to spawn them.
Everyone here always says to watch that the males don't beat up the
females, but the females should also be watched for aggro tendencies.
Glad I'm not the only one this ever happens to. ;-)
Julie Zeppieri (RSG) <><
On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Peter Hughes (X) wrote:
>
> OK people have been talking about the lack of traffic at the moment and I
> am going to ask a question that may stir some comment. This comes from
> observations in one of my rainbow tanks with a mixed rainbow population
> ie Goyder tri's, a single male coen tri, a pair of boesmani, a female
> eachamensis 'Euramoo', a herbie, and a lucustris.
>
> The dominant fish in this tank changes from hour to hour, there are the
> morning fish (the male boesmani and the lucustrus) and the evening fish
> (mostly the tri's). However one of the most persistant.y aggressive fish
> is the female boesmani. She chases the larger coen around the tank
> flareing her fins in the way that males do when fighting. She has at some
> stages beaten him into a corner and kept him there. The coen is probably
> the overall dominant fish with the boesmani the only real challenger, so
> it came as a great surpise to see this happen. I have watched it now on a
> number of occasions.
>
> Has anybody else had experiences with aggresive females? Or is it just me
> who had a female betta kill the male?
>
> Looking forward to some comments on this
>
> Peter
>