need advice about removing a fish

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Jack Dempsey
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Hello everyone,

I have a tank with 3 blood parrots and 4 EY labs and 7 Black tetras (they used to be 10 but that's a second issue I will make another post for it related to changed behavior after introducing home made food)


Okay the story is blood parrots and EY labs all turned out to be males. One of the blood parrots is the dominant male and is larger than the other two he chases everyone else. he has good health and appetite and shows good behavior of nesting under a drift wood.

My question is I want to introduce a female or two but I am thinking of removing him instead of the less dominant males to make it easy on the electric Yellows as well.
But I also don't want to do this because I am feeling I am giving out the good fish.

Whats your opinion what do you think I should do? I want to breed them soon.
 
U cannot have what you have now ,and then intro an opposite sex. The the dominant male parrot will be more aggressive and if they bond into a pair they will be mean to everyone in the tank. So if there are already fish like Electric yellows having hard time, you need another tank. A pair will be mean and territorial together
 
the animal guy said:
U cannot have what you have now ,and then intro an opposite sex. The the dominant male parrot will be more aggressive and if they bond into a pair they will be mean to everyone in the tank. So if there are already fish like Electric yellows having hard time, you need another tank. A pair will be mean and territorial together
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Okay thank you for the tip. I am going to get a larger tank soon so I can use it to move a pair their .

But let me rephrase my question. Is it better to breed a dominant mail or breed a non dominant mail with better colours?
 
This is easy question bro it's always better to use the dominate fish. In nature creatures who are dominate carry heavy traits and normally are the best in looks and coloration as well as size. You breed two 10's and you will get some, you breed a 10 with a 6 and you will get many 5's understand?
 
BastardFish said:
This is easy question bro it's always better to use the dominate fish. In nature creatures who are dominate carry heavy traits and normally are the best in looks and coloration as well as size. You breed two 10's and you will get some, you breed a 10 with a 6 and you will get many 5's understand?
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Thanks, whats making me not sure here is that the dominant fish is orange ans has a white botch near its gills it doesn't look bad but but one of the other is smaller but reddish and his colors are deeper.

So in the end it comes to size versus colors?
 
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