big midas vs dovii pair with eggs video, epic!

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I wouldn't call it epic? This is the exact reason I never ever keep pairs or females in community tanks. It is one of the quickest ways too introduce physical aggression to any community tank. I would be using a divider as others have said until you can get them separated.
 
I've had my fair share of fish scwabbles. But this was cool no doubt. I don't keep either species at the moment but. If you over populate the tank it will cut down on those encounters for sure. My suggestion would be a divider until you can overstock. But hell you didn't post this for suggestions on how to break up the fights! Keep on keeping on!

Awesome video.

Drew

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love what your doing with the big tank and that is not to big of a fight for a dovii atleast. my 8'' dovii will turn other parachromis species inside out if they come on his side of my 240. they say dovii attitude change when they hit the 12'' mark so it looks like you have a couple more months of him not starting anything but as some one already said when you get these cichlids with eggs aggression goes through the roof. an idea would be to get some plastic eggcrate to separate when they have fry. just cut hole big enough where your other fish can fit but the big males can not. good luck and love your female dovii she is gorgeous
 
I think it's a great video. Some fish are on this planet to swim in circles and look pretty (angels come to mind), and some are here to do battle! If not in your tank, they'd kill each other in a lake. Let nature sort it out. Or get a divider lol. It's not like you threw the fish in there to fight, dovii were dumb enough to spawn on the bare bottom with a Midas swimming around that outweighs both of them put together. They should just consider themselves lucky you don't have any big catfish in that tank.


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Very cool screw the naysayers! All of us on here know you take great care of your fish and are not some dumb kid that threw fish in just to fight. That is actually a small skirmish considering you have two breeding pair of big boy cichlids. The blue on your dovii are awesome. Keep doin what you're doin.

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hey all, thanks for all the replys and all opinions are valued and im glad some people know i am a good fish keeper... i never intended them to fight although i obviously knew they would and will increase as the dovii put on size. i think the reason most of us few who keep aggressive communitys do it to enjoy the hierachy of the tank and the fact that there will be scuffles can get the blood rushing... neither of these fish have so much as a badly ripped fin atm! this is the second time ive had both pairs spawn since xmas... either i'll get another tank or sell the dovii, i could sell this dovii pair in a heart beat to many people i know. i know the midas is staying with me forever now, he is fast become as important to me as my dogs!-) the flowerhorn will be moving to our bedroom soon and i may sell the festae as they dont do much for me other than looking nice.... pike is open to offers aswell, anyone?
 
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