Sexing Severums

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They keep cleaning off a piece of driftwood and defending it. The gold keeps making a shaking movement over the piece of wood while the
Red chases the other fish off. And then they go back and sit next to each other


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SePPii said:
They keep cleaning off a piece of driftwood and defending it. The gold keeps making a shaking movement over the piece of wood while the
Red chases the other fish off. And then they go back and sit next to each other


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If they are not being aggressive with each other, that could potentially be breeding behavior. Have they locked lips at all? That seems to be a big sign of breeding behavior in most all cichlids.


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Haven't seen them lip lock but doesn't mean they havent


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tomka123 said:
I got 3 & one seems to be a male by the face, the other 2 female. Today is day 4 & I woke up to one of the females dead. Via that normal & why? She was beat up.


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What size tank? If it is too small or doesn't have enough places to hide, you cold have a potential breeding pair that removed an invader.


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There is 1 of the 2 that are left really chasing the other around. I have them in with some young pbass. Does this sound like a problem, or can this be expected the first few days? I think they have plenty of space & if you look at the picture above, I think there is plenty of structure creating different areas in the tank for them. Should I be concerned & what should I do to better the situation?
 
Idk my tank is basically wide open. I have the 2 Severums, 2 Kelberi Pbass, my Marblexmotoro ray, and a NTT dat. No issues til the other day and the red has gotten really aggressive towards the bass and dat and defending an area.


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SePPii said:
Idk my tank is basically wide open. I have the 2 Severums, 2 Kelberi Pbass, my Marblexmotoro ray, and a NTT dat. No issues til the other day and the red has gotten really aggressive towards the bass and dat and defending an area.


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I have another 55 gallon with 3 xingu +1 tem in it that I might move the aggressive one into if this continues through the night. The bass in the 75 arae 2-3 inches. The xingu & ten are 4-5 inches, so they may handle the sev better... What do you think about that idea? That would leave 1 sev in each tank.
 
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