I just got my Biota mandarin pair a couple of weeks ago, and I just notice yesterday that the male is picking on the female, does he just not want to share his pods? are something else
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as far a I can tell, what i think is the female has the rounded dorsal fin and what looks link a longer bodyDefinitely a male and a female right?
Right and the male as the spiked dorsal.as far a I can tell, what i think is the female has the rounded dorsal fin and what looks link a longer body
rightRight and the male as the spiked dorsal.
That's how I got my wife so it could be perfectly normal.so now they are latching onto each other and wrestling, is this normal behaver between males and females, they are very small like .75 inch
lots of pods in the tank, i grow my own and add every week, no luck on feeding them, they are fat and have grownAre they having enough food? They will fight if food become a problem.
mine slept in the same spot at first too, since i am feeding pellets 3 times a day i have not seen them fightI had biota mandarin pair since they were 1" in size. In the beginning they would sleep in the same spot with each other. But about 1 year into taking care of them the male killed the female. Not sure why?? Animal will be animals.
I had a wild caught mandarin pair, many years ago. There was no shortage of food, either pods or from feeding frozen foods, and one day he simply just turned on her, and attacked her and pursued her relentlessly. She didn't make it, and faded away in the following weeks.
I recorded this just a week or two before the male went psycho.
Really sucked, she was my first attempt and success with this breeding, and lived healthily for a whole year in a 10G before moving to a larger home and getting a mate.