In addition, a lot of snakeheadd are subtropical. They will continue to fight and feed normally in temps down to low 50's.
Guys i need help and quick !!
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ok guys i dont need a pissing contest in my post i need advice.
They've been separated for a bit now and the fry are still doing ok.
I cannot afford to have them fight like this, it's insane so for now my best bet is to have them separated until the female recuperate a bit and start healing.
My 75 Gallons will be here in a bit and i need to find some good low maintenance plants for it and other tips/tricks to make hiding places.
They've been separated for a bit now and the fry are still doing ok.
I cannot afford to have them fight like this, it's insane so for now my best bet is to have them separated until the female recuperate a bit and start healing.
My 75 Gallons will be here in a bit and i need to find some good low maintenance plants for it and other tips/tricks to make hiding places.
Without the female, the fry have no food. Yes, you can feed them other things. Two things can happen. Either your fry will slowly die, or they will grow extremely, extremely slow.
In addition, you will not be able to reintroduce the female back without loss. The male will not recognize her, and she will not recognize and feed her fry later on. In fact, she may even eat them.
In addition, you will not be able to reintroduce the female back without loss. The male will not recognize her, and she will not recognize and feed her fry later on. In fact, she may even eat them.
The fry can swim freely from one side to the other.
The fry can swim freely from one side to the other.
They really need to stay with their parents until the parents start to chase them around. That's when you are supposed to seperate them. It happens around 4-5 cm. Most snakeheads are egg feeders. If you take a look at the stickys on snakehead care, you will see that a lot of species are egg feeders. If you seperate them too early, they lack proper nutrition from mom and also the slime from dad in some cases. If they are still too small, a lot of times they will just slowly die. If they are somewhat bigger, their growth will be greatly stunted. But, you don't have to take my advice. Most of the more experienced snakehead keepers here won't even care to respond to you because most people don't take advice anyways. At the end of the day, they are your snakeheads, and you can do whatever you want with them. I can only give you advice.
In addition, it's now too late to put your female snakehead back. A snakehead has the ability to recover from the most serious injuries GIVEN that its water conditions don't change much. For example, no water changes, low fluctuations in temp and ph, no meds, no salt, and most importantly, no new water. Changes in water stress out a snakehead, and that's when they start to grow fungus. By you putting it in another tank, you have just stressed the hell out of it. If you put it back into its original tank now, you will stress it out even more. Like I said, it's very normal for snakehead pairs to fight after breeding. My female pulchra got beat the crap out of after breeding both times. It fully recovered both times. Many people's snakeheads fight after breeding. The female is usually very weak after laying eggs, and the male is usually much stronger, and has the advantage. You should have let them sort out their own business. Even if you were to reintroduce her back in a month or two, the male will not even recognize her, and therefore will fight because they are no longer a pair. She will be seen as a threat to his saftey, like introducing a new fish into an established tank.
In addition, it's now too late to put your female snakehead back. A snakehead has the ability to recover from the most serious injuries GIVEN that its water conditions don't change much. For example, no water changes, low fluctuations in temp and ph, no meds, no salt, and most importantly, no new water. Changes in water stress out a snakehead, and that's when they start to grow fungus. By you putting it in another tank, you have just stressed the hell out of it. If you put it back into its original tank now, you will stress it out even more. Like I said, it's very normal for snakehead pairs to fight after breeding. My female pulchra got beat the crap out of after breeding both times. It fully recovered both times. Many people's snakeheads fight after breeding. The female is usually very weak after laying eggs, and the male is usually much stronger, and has the advantage. You should have let them sort out their own business. Even if you were to reintroduce her back in a month or two, the male will not even recognize her, and therefore will fight because they are no longer a pair. She will be seen as a threat to his saftey, like introducing a new fish into an established tank.
She was never removed from the tank the only thing i did was put a division in the tank so they would be apart for a bit, now this morning the female jumped over it and they are back together so i remove the barrier and let them sort out their problems, next time i will only get 1 channa.
I have to admit that i was not fully prepared to take on this situation and i will wait for my new tank to get here , get the right gear and the right plans and have my fish well established in there. It's my fault and YES, i do take advice and listen but when you have a few people that tell you different things, who do i believe ??? Brucki and Tokyogazmask i have done what they told me but this fighting was too much for me and i got scared, panicked so now i will stop all treatment and will let them sort this out, if one dies.... i would not like it but there is nothing more that i can do.
I just noticed that when i put melafix in the water they reacted to it but also i use Flourish for my plants, i wonder if one or the other make them angry or stressed....
Snakehead fry are very sensiti
ve to water changes, including drastic temp changes. Lowering temps may do more harm than good. Big water changes, salt, meds, will wipe out fry.
All I said was a small temp change, nothing else, if his sh are going to kill eachother then yes it will help, I didn't consider fry at that point for the sake of the parents.....and I never advised a drastic change, 5-6 degrees over 8-12 hours won't hurt.
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add hiding places, cork bark tubes or something similar.
Pieces of cork ar suitable too, so the femal can hide outside the water and breath air whitnout being seen by the male
Pieces of cork ar suitable too, so the femal can hide outside the water and breath air whitnout being seen by the male
