should i be worried???

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tinkertaylor

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ok so i have

2 female mollys
1 male
1 male platy

3 male guppies

m/f ?? butter fly catfish
m/f ?? botia robusta loach

i normally feed flakes but as ive read a varied diet will be good for them, which makes sense.

so i bought some frozen stuff to feed them what slowly breaks off ( i thought it broke up pretty damn fast) they all went mad for it!! completly mad!!! and started getting a bit rough with each other tho there was plenty to go around. i did this 2 nights ago.

then last night the OH fed them flakes and an algea wafer.. well this just caused this biggest fight between the biggest female molly the butterfly cat fish (which is what the wafer is ment for ?) the male platy and the botia robusta.... now she only put half the wafer in.. is that an error??

but the wafer ended up underneath / inside the boat and the female molly protected it and chased everyone away until she managed to eat / break it up ( i couldnt quit see what was going on)

but once she came out the male platy has been stuck by her all night / morning and she keeps doing a weird wiggly dance... now i dont know anythink about fish but the way you tell if its male / female the bit underneath is usually laid on his belly but now its stuck out so much!! and hers is too and she keeps sucking?eating? his side and they keep chasing each other around like crazy... now i dont know if this is fish love or that the male platy is harrassing the molly which is bigger?? even the male guppys follow the molly around like crazy and completly leave the other female alone!!!

should i be worried or not?? all fins and tails seem fine on every one.. i dont know if its playing or not ?? HELP!!!! lol

thank you
 
No reason to really worry, it's normal fish usually fight over food amongst other reasons. Aside from the catfish there isn't really anything in there that can cause any serious injury, that said it is still also very unlikely.
 
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