I have owed a dovii for about the last 8-12months, its around 8" longer
alway hated my flowerhorn which its lived next door to(divider) they spent much of thier time attempting to kill other another through the divider.
now walked in to my local fish shop last friday, spotted a large-ish dovii forsale probley twice mines length and roughly about 3-4 times it size, very dull pretty sad looking fish, small signs of hole in the head, got it cheap $20 with instructions too keep the water good feed it well it should be fine.
all well and good very happy with it. now the issue is that my new large fish seems to be very calm, very little agression quite happy swims about etc usall fish business, i was told it was getting bashed by it old tank mates who ever they were and well its pretty much how its going now.
now realising that dovii and agrey bastards and love to kill/fight how do i tell the difference between mating behaviour ( asuming i have male and female ) and genreal im going to kill you this is my home behaviour, the first 4 days they werent too bad last night the smaller one started digging throwing gravel everywhere and genrally trying to be sexy, with little intrest from the new larger one although it did partake in some gravel moving. now this afternoon after i cleaned the tank out they have been fighting alot, jaw locking the smaller one chasing the bigger one etc
iv never breed dovii only convicts, so whats the go do they want to kill one another ? or is it mating ? or is it niether and just the fact they have big teeth and hate the living? any advice would be good
they are housed alone in a standard 6 foot tank.
cheers.
ill upload pictures later too see if anyone is able to sex them because iv got no idea they are both pretty bland, probley due to inbreeding because of the fact that australia probley doesnt have the been supply of cichlids.
alway hated my flowerhorn which its lived next door to(divider) they spent much of thier time attempting to kill other another through the divider.
now walked in to my local fish shop last friday, spotted a large-ish dovii forsale probley twice mines length and roughly about 3-4 times it size, very dull pretty sad looking fish, small signs of hole in the head, got it cheap $20 with instructions too keep the water good feed it well it should be fine.
all well and good very happy with it. now the issue is that my new large fish seems to be very calm, very little agression quite happy swims about etc usall fish business, i was told it was getting bashed by it old tank mates who ever they were and well its pretty much how its going now.
now realising that dovii and agrey bastards and love to kill/fight how do i tell the difference between mating behaviour ( asuming i have male and female ) and genreal im going to kill you this is my home behaviour, the first 4 days they werent too bad last night the smaller one started digging throwing gravel everywhere and genrally trying to be sexy, with little intrest from the new larger one although it did partake in some gravel moving. now this afternoon after i cleaned the tank out they have been fighting alot, jaw locking the smaller one chasing the bigger one etc
iv never breed dovii only convicts, so whats the go do they want to kill one another ? or is it mating ? or is it niether and just the fact they have big teeth and hate the living? any advice would be good
they are housed alone in a standard 6 foot tank.
cheers.
ill upload pictures later too see if anyone is able to sex them because iv got no idea they are both pretty bland, probley due to inbreeding because of the fact that australia probley doesnt have the been supply of cichlids.
