Aggressive... guppies!?!?
I have a planted 75 gallon tank in which I keep mostly angels and a few pearl and dwarf blue flame gouramis. Every so often I'll toss in twenty or thirty feeder guppies which will keep the angels busy for a few days hunting them down and slaughtering them. Well, a few guppies, which were on the larger size, particularly females, escaped and have founded a flourishing and vibrant subculture down amongst the undergrowth where the angels can't go. I haven't discouraged them because I've noticed that guppies (like mollies and swordtails) will eat some beard or brush algae which the otos and snails don't. Anyway, what's happened, is the guppies are harrassing the dwarf gouramis. They're constantly stalking them and picking, poking, prodding and otherwise relentlessly tormenting the poor fish, singly and in packs. One of the gouramis has died and a couple of the others are looking pretty pathetic. Does anyone have an explanation or theory to explain this? I've never seen it before. kush "You can't have everything - where would you put it?" |
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