Cockatoo dwarf cichlid is afraid of other fish?
Hello, I have a 200-liter tank with a male purple cichlid, a cockatoo dwarf cichlid, mollies, platies, neons, etc. My male cockatoo dwarf cichlid is extremely scared and spends all his time in the corner. He barely eats, only has half a tail fin left (will it grow back?), and avoids all fish. Since the purple cichlid is older and significantly larger, the latter chases him away and suppresses him.
I don't know what to do. The cockatoo dwarf cichlid is defenseless against the splendens cichlid. I don't know if it will grow quickly due to stress. Should I add a female?
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Your fish composition is quite adventurous – Mollys need completely different water than the cockatoo.
And the socialization of two dwarf-colored beards never goes well (almost) – at least not when one of the species is a PPP – they are so rabid and aggressive that they chase and suppress everything else.
Stress makes fish sick very quickly and lets them die, the cockatoo will not live long in the AQ – and no, if you still use the much smaller females, then also the PPP will be killed.
Find a new home for the cockatoo very quickly – otherwise he does not live long and inform you better about the posture requirements in the future.
Nearly I read almost everywhere that the water values of both fit. But thanks anyway.
Mollys need highly alkaline hard water, best even with a salt additive. Apistogramma needs as soft and neutral as possible to even acidic water. It can't fit in an AQ.
and who only has a little idea of water chemistry, he knows that this value can never be true. With a total hardness of 13 NEVER you can have a neutral PH value, or a low alkaline range – you can tell someone who doesn't know that in water chemistry these values are absolutely dependent on each other.
In addition, one should cultivate animals – and that means that one does not provide them "approximately" or at the outermost limit their living conditions, but makes them optimal.
As I said, how good your cockatoo is, speaks volumes for me.
So I looked again
PH: My pool: 7 – 7.3
Cockatoo: 6-7.5 (Max. 8 according to some websites)
Molly: 7-8
dGH: My Basin: 13
Cockatoo: 0-15
Molly: 10 – 30
So I think that's what fits
I don't believe that – because fish are genetically influenced by their natural biotope and if they have to bear so many different water levels, they have stress and become sick. The osmo regulation fails, the organs fail, the animals die… but you know better – that's why your cockatoo is so bad…
I know sooo many who hold together and succeed for years
If I were Cockatoo Cichlid, I would be afraid of these neighbors.
What you do is animal cruelty, violation of §2 TierSchG and punishable.
You want to show me right now or just because I made a mistake. I was not aware of this great hospitality before. What's wrong with you.
In view of your obvious inconsistency, this would be a measure, even if my reference to the legal situation was actually intended to illustrate how catastrophic that is what you do to the animals.
Fish in an aquarium not just gather colorful like stamps in an album.
Wrong is that you do not inform yourself accordingly about the posture requirements in the animals you want to maintain!
Yes, no stress, I will definitely enforce measures now, as it does not fit the fish.
Where didn't you find anything? And if you don't think about cohesion, it's not because you can never keep both species together!
Otherwise § 2 TierschutzG
Whoever holds, supervises or maintains an animal,
You didn't pay attention to sentence 1 or sentence 3.
I'm sorry, but I almost barely found anything where you're talking about being together.
Hi.
Problematic is here the magenta, at 200l I can tell you from his own experience that he sees the complete pelvis as his precinct, other ash are naturally expelled. The best thing would be if you separated the little one and found a new home. For a long time, it certainly doesn't matter, it's stressed and maybe comes badly to food, live bearers are guaranteed faster:(
I could also take the gorgeous colorful one
The PPB and the living-bearers can get each other on the nerves without taking great damage, there is equality of arms.
The Neons and the poor Apistogramma go down without a gun and belong in their own basin.
Tetras, live bearers and crayons have no more in common than zebras, wolves and guinea pigs. She wouldn't keep anyone together in a cradle. From a magenta to an apistogramma it is far more than from the gorilla to the human being. Do you want to share your apartment with a gorilla? Or would the gorilla be happy with you as a roommate? No? Then why are you doing it to the fish?
That's what this is escalating. I'll put every cichlid in the quarantine for a while and watch who'll get better in the main pool.
So if you think that's okay…
well, if you have a built-in, appropriately decorated and large quarantine pool, then I would set up exactly DAS permanently for the cockatoo. If he survived this and regenerated the fins and his general condition again completely, then you buy him 1 or 3 females (depending on the size of the pelvis) and there he can live quite wonderfully.