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[Martinspuddle]

I lost one of my female angels . One of those annoying cases where she looked in perfect nick when I pulled her out. Probably about a week away from going to live at my parents house.

Sorry you lost her. This is probably down to the female you have left of the three.

Angelfish are notoriously hard to sex, are you sure of the sexing?

I now have two males and one female, and it's currently a war in there. The remaining female doesn't seem to be helping. She's just switching the end of the tank and which male she hangs out with when they're not fighting.

...I shouldn't laugh, I have the T shirt, medals, long service award for Pterophyllum scalare and many on this forum when I first joined, were sceptical what I was telling them.

Let her choose the male she wants. You have two bedraggled looking males afterwards but the strongest pair.

Have you got somewhere the loser can heal?

[BigBen]

I lost one of my female angels . One of those annoying cases where she looked in perfect nick when I pulled her out. Probably about a week away from going to live at my parents house.

Sorry you lost her. This is probably down to the female you have left of the three.

Angelfish are notoriously hard to sex, are you sure of the sexing?

I now have two males and one female, and it's currently a war in there. The remaining female doesn't seem to be helping. She's just switching the end of the tank and which male she hangs out with when they're not fighting.

...I shouldn't laugh, I have the T shirt, medals, long service award for Pterophyllum scalare and many on this forum when I first joined, were sceptical what I was telling them.

Let her choose the male she wants. You have two bedraggled looking males afterwards but the strongest pair.

Have you got somewhere the loser can heal?

Potentially, but I don't think so as the one still alive is a bit stunted and pretty small and there hadn't previously been any fighting between the females (doesn't mean it didn't happen though).

100% on the sexing. Both pairs have bred and the ovipositors have been quite distinctive.

I have a 60l that is so close to being cycled, days away, so I think I will pop one in there until my parents tank is ready, which will hopefully be a week or so. They're both a bit tatty already.

[Martinspuddle]

Ah, sorry didn't know you had mated pairs already.

[BigBen]

They paired off really quickly. They were a decent size when I got them, so age could have been a factor. I've no idea of the life expectancy of cichlids.

[Martinspuddle]

I found around ten years, maybe a little longer.

Once read someone had one live to the ripe old age of 15 years.

[BigBen]

I found around ten years, maybe a little longer.

Once read someone had one live to the ripe old age of 15 years.

I doubt they're that old to be honest. The boys were looking horrendous when I went in to chuck a bit of muscle in for the golden vampire just now Had a good couple of years with them breeding at the same time, no problems. Now they've gone all cichlid on me

[plankton]

Once they go cichlid they stay that way. They're the only cichlid I've ever attempted (my wife liked them) and they were a nightmare after a year or so going from a pair overnight to a singleton the next day (never did find the body) followed by the rest of the tank being decimated....

[Martinspuddle]

Once they go cichlid they stay that way. They're the only cichlid I've ever attempted (my wife liked them) and they were a nightmare after a year or so going from a pair overnight to a singleton the next day (never did find the body) followed by the rest of the tank being decimated....

I decided long ago never to keep them again. They're alright paired up for breeding on their own but not in a general community and certainly not kept in groups. Might look fine in a species aquarium until all hell breaks lose when they pair up!

Never kept one on it's own, so can't comment on the behaviour of a singleton.

[BigBen]

I think a pair will be ok to be honest with the other fish I have in there. There is nothing sharing their domain currently, other than a single keyhole.

Shame they've turned like this. They were doing well. Kribensis are still the worst that I've kept. Not had issues with much else from memory. I had a grumpy female Apistos Agassizi towards the male but fine with other fish. My big krib was horrid, and ate anything that would go in it's mouth in the end, and killed the female with him overnight.

[FishBubs]

The worst fish i have ever seen for aggression believe it or not was a hillstream loach. Man this thing would zoom about the tank targetting corydoras and latch onto them something chronic, it was swiftly removed from the tank and taken back to lfs. It did however stress my corys so much that it killed three of them. Crazy stuff