Prob with my golden severum pair.

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James Gil

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Hi, i recently got hold of a pair of golden severums. All was fine in the 25 gal holding tank, and i recently put the pair in a more spacious 55 gal. Today ive come home from work to find the female has had a bit of a battering from the male. Her pec fins and tail fins are qiute damaged it almost looks like fin rot ( its deffo not btw, she was perfet yesterday). I watched the couple for a while and its seems the male will not leave her alone. Even at feeding time he'd rather pursue the female than eat. So ive put a clear partition inbetween the tank so the female can get a little rest and heal up a bit, and get some good feeds before i remove the partition. The female seems to want to rejoin her companion as she is trying to swim through the partition, as is he. Have i done the right thing by providing a partition between the pair? so me advice please, i feel ive doe the right thing but welcome comments and advice. Thanks:)
 
2 hours later after seperation : The male seems to have calmed down on his side of the tank, tho he still is trying to get under the devider to the female. He has been sat in his side looking at her and exavating a sort of depression/crater in the gravel using his mouth. Not having much experience with chiclids personally i am not sure if he is trying to make a 'nest' of some sort. Any idea's folks?
 
just like a typical married couple: they cannot live together, they cannot live apart.

You can make an openning in the divider big enought for the female to swim thru. If and when she goes over to the male side and gets beat up or chase, she can go back thru the openning.

I think the pair fight to see if they are compatible with each other before spawning.
 
Well according to the shop i got these from the 'pair' had already spawned in a species tank, the eggs were lost or eaten by the others. So i know they have been compatible, as for now i dont know. As for the cutting a hole in the devider, is there any way or method to judge the right size of a hole to cut? And im gonna try to upload some pics to show u guys.
 
What I meant is that the fish will test each other to see if they are compatible for one another.

Just cut the hole big enought that you think the female will fit but not the male.
 
Ok hope this has worked, here is a pic of the damage my female suffered
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o285/epouhage/IMG00020-20090428-2105.jpg
and from a different angle
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o285/epouhage/IMG00019-20090428-2104.jpg

and a pic of the 'devider' i have installed
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o285/epouhage/IMG00023-20090428-2107.jpg to the right of this pic u can barley see some rummy nose tetras, my attempt at some dither fish and u can see the sort of devider aswell. will try to upload a pic of the handsome male, he was hiding behind the filter and got a little spooked by my blackberry, so i have left him in peace for now.
 
i would have done the same thing... my large male would deff kill a female if he felt like it...he has made other fish want to jump out of the water rather then stay in the tank with him...

the cutting only a hole the female can get through is a great idea also.
 
yep, i think a hole in the devider is a good idea:) just gonna leave the pair of em to chill out for tonight and let the female rest a little then i shall try to make a suitable hole in the devider when i come home form work tomorrow afternoon
 
try putting a keyhole cichlid or convict if you think your male is strong enough as a dither. Those tetras won't cut it. It'll give the female some alone time while the male is out fighting.
 
Actually it was convicts i was after but there was none available at the time so i sort of panicked a little and thought 'what is fast and maybee large enough to piss off the male' however i shall get some convicts asap and give these tetras to my friend. I was actually thinking of a pair of convicts as i hear they can get quite defensive of terriotory, the theory being my male wont take any crap off them and vice versa, then hopefully releasing some stress off the female.
 
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