rbp stripped to the bone, graphic

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whats the temp at and how many times you feed now, number of rbp's, and any pics of the setup? could be high aggression due to lack of food, higher water temps upping metabolism, and over crowding... under feeding, or even just pecking order, the weekest of the shoal must go...
 
how big are they and what size tank is it in? like jerzyperson said higher temperature = more aggression. Increase feeding, lowering temperature, getting a longer tank, adding driftwood are some of your options. Something like this is very common when it comes to shoaling red bellies.
 
Young RBP's are cannibalistic by nature - adults not so much unless starving or their is a member of their shoal whom they deem un-healthy. Most of the time the smaller of the shoal if healthy will occupy the outer most points in a line, the largest "alpha" will be dead center in the line. Adding more water volume, larger tank, isn't gonna stop RBP's from weeding the sick and deformed.
 
like the others have said those are things to consider, I started with 3 RBP's in a 10 gallon tank, and they showed TONS of aggression towards each other, but since I've purchased a 75 gallon tank they get along like a nice happy family....for now. So it maybe the space that you have them in, less space also = more aggression.
 
sucks man i found one of my rbp well what was left of him a few months ago just the skull no eyes no meat no skeleton no anything
 
i had something like that happen i was watching tv and heard some splashing i looked at the tank from where i was sand didnt see anything i heard it again and my 3.5 inch p's were atacking and totally ate on of my 8 inch p's i only had 2 bigger ones that size and 5 smaller ones but they ate him or her
 
the only thing i'm curious about is tank size. i've come home to the same exact thing, was it still alive? mine was
 
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