Can Green Terror pairs be split and paired up with other mates?

[Cohazard]

I bought a bonded pair of silver saum green terrors today, I also bought a male from the same tank with different face shape and tail color thickness.

I'm curious, is it possible for the female to be removed from the male she is paired up with and added with the 2nd male?

 

[AcsFoolMike]

Sure, but you have to get rid of the original male first.

 

[Cohazard]

Sure, but you have to get rid of the original male first.

Of course, so would you say leave her in the tank, and introduce the male to her 'territory'?

I would still like to keep both males, albeit in different tanks.

 

[AcsFoolMike]

I'd say that's a better idea then taking her out and putting her in after the new male, yes.

 

[AcsFoolMike]

What you might wanna do is rearrange the tank when you put the new male in with her. This'll keep her from getting crazy territorial and possibly not mating out of spite.

 

[Cohazard]

Okay good point. Thanks for the advice guys.

I am going to let her stay with the male she bonded with (he has grown a nice nuchal hump at 3" because of her) and I can practice raising the fry. That gets at least the hard part of pairing them out of the way.

Later on though, i would like to experiement with the 2nd male, since he has a different head shape from the first male, and a better tail.