baby rbp biting each other!!! help!

[chubbz626]

i have about 14 2inch rbps in a 60g tank for now until i can upgrade my tank/ wait till they get bigger..

i always fed them 3 times a day.. 1 cube of bloodworms every 7-8 hours and they were fine since half an inch and now recently all of them and i mean every single one of them is niped on the fins and theres one with a missing piece of flesh next to his top fin!.. now i feed them 2 cubes every 4 hours and they seem to do okay.. they still nip each other i have driftwood and plants in the tank and the water is heated to 83. i also feed them some jumbo dried shrimp as well if i think they are lookin hungry.. they eat EVERYTHING i put in there!

what shude i do?? feed them more?! i dont want any to die n they look fugly now.

 

[DarthRhom]

Not much you can do, its the nature of the beast. Keep em well fed, give plenty of hiding spaces. You're most likely gonna lose a few.

 

[chubbz626]

yeah im trying to keep them well fed now.. i feed them like effing 10 times a day with bloodworms/pellets @_@

 

[jthefishguy]

there is not a thing you can do. I sell RBP, I've had 500 in a tank feeding them 4 times day. They will always eat eachother. They eat eyes first, then the fish. Thats the nature of it. Always buy more because they will always eat a few.

 

[fishman646]

yeah it will happen

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Well this is what to do take the heater out of the tank or turn it way low, let the tank drop to the low 75s this should slow down there eating and cut down on aggression, problem solved it worked for me when my two used to start constantly fighting.

 

[chubbz626]

Thanks multispeciesTamer for the tip. im gonna lower right now and we'll see how it goes from there. il update

 

[chubbz626]

i dont want to make a new thread but whats the best temp to keep the rpb's at?

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

probably between 75-78

 

[dudey]

between 78 and 82. To keep aggression down go lower towards 77 or 78. Almost guaranteed to have nips when they are younger especially with 14 in a 60 gallon tank. They will eventually outgrow their cannibalistic stage. Just keep the feeding up, temp lower and try to upgrade soon.