Psyco Male Cichlid Disease.. An Epidemic??

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fishman09

fishman09

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So i really need to vent and was wondering how many people have experienced similar problems that i am facing right now. My two parachromis pairs, dovii and la ceiba freddies spawned around the same time and for one reason or another the fry didnt last long. the doviis had a group of 1 month old fry that feasted on the new group of wrigglers and the freddies fry just kinda dwindled about a week after spawning as i wasnt feeding the fry and tried to see if they could graze on the algae i let grow in the tank. well when the fry dissapeared both males decided to beat the crap out of the females at basically the exact same time. very frustrating as both have been great pairs with no issues and im afraid the bonds may be broken and may have to be divided from now on.

any other experiences with this disease with well bonded pairs out there?
 
I have experienced this with every pair that had troubles fertilizing, when they ate the eggs or I pulled fry too early. Yes it sux and you might have to divide them temporarily like I have had to. But all it takes is a normal spawn and the pair is back to normal again. Sorry about the crazy outbreak;) but things should go back to normal.
 
It happens, next time pull fry sooner and divide the pair temporaily. Ik it takes LONGER for FRY to row when separated, but it works better for me and anytime I experiment w/ waiting longer, the male looses it at the most inappropriate time.

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Every time I have lost a female to a male breeding partner it's been right after fry disappeared prematurely due to whatever.

I think in nature this would usually naturally break their pair bond once this happened and they would go their separate ways. In a tank, you have a pissed off couple of fish with nowhere to swim away to.


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My male is always hard on his female, so I like to give my dovii pair time apart from each other. It seems to help the female recover and lets her be calm for awhile. My male one time ripped the females upper lip off (luckily it grew back). The parachromis males can be tuff on their mates especially dovii since there is so much size difference. I have found it helps if when you remove the fry to leave some in there to help keep the pair from turning on each other when the fry all disappear.

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aclockworkorange said:
Every time I have lost a female to a male breeding partner it's been right after fry disappeared prematurely due to whatever.

I think in nature this would usually naturally break their pair bond once this happened and they would go their separate ways. In a tank, you have a pissed off couple of fish with nowhere to swim away to.


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Agreed. Happened with my RTMs a few times. Males are males, ok I'm done get lost.........lol
 
thanks everyone. ive always heard of stuff like this happening but have yet to experience it. its very odd how males can be so kind and gentle and possibly even submissive to the females but when there fury is unleashed there seems to be nothing that can stop them from beating the living crap out of the females with so much ease. removed the dovii as she was pretty threashed and gave the female fred places to get away from the mal and she seems to be doing much better at avoiding issues.
 
I also think fish have short attention spans and after a week or two of being divided or removed should amost make the intro all bran new:)
 
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