GT with Tourrets

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iplaylacrosse6

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I have a M,F pair of GT's and have had them for a couple months now, everything was going fine. Its a 125 gallon tank, and all parameters are normal I have checked recently and havent found anything unusual. I added a RD a week ago, and the 3 seemed to be fine, but today I noticed my male GT seems to randomly flip out, swim into the walls and almost knocks himself out to the point where he is floating around. While unconcious the RD will sometimes nip at his fins, but it doesnt seem like the RD is trying to kill him. After about 1 min he pops back up and acts normal again. Anyone have any ideas? the F GT is doing quite well and has no problems.
I was thinking the only thing could be stress from the RD trying to get ride ofthe dominate male GT. Any other ideas?
 
That happened when I got my Red devil also. Whenever my GT and RD got to close to each other my GT would spaz out in a tourrets type of twitch. I believe its sort of a nervous twitch that he had from being intimidated by the RD. I think its normal. He stopped as he got bigger. But with all my fish it only happened with the RD but he was also the biggest.
 
How big is your GT? What other fish are in the tank? It should go away as the GT get a feel for the RD. (Hopefully)
 
he is about 3-4 inch. sadly to say he didnt make through the day, he was belly up for a while and never came back round. Is it possible to have fish go mental? cause ive never seen anything like this.
 
i would bet the RD stressed the hell out of him.
although the GT is considered moderately aggressive, red devils are in a whole other league in the aggression stakes.
i think your GT was looking for a way out, away from the RD but ran into the glass in his desperation.
i would suggest being prepared to seperate your female GT from your RD.

just my opinion.
 
Ravyn_Smoke;3832513; said:
Definately keep an eye on the RD. I honestly think the best tankmate for a RD is decor. Those guys can take agression to a whole new level.
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Sometimes even the décor isn't safe! My rd/midas are constantly beating on their driftwood and fake plants!
 
Ravyn_Smoke;3832513; said:
Definately keep an eye on the RD. I honestly think the best tankmate for a RD is decor. Those guys can take agression to a whole new level.
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I agree.. There's not many that will live there life out without killing everything else in with them..
 
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