jcardona1;1724144; said:
Cool! yeah im sure not all carpintis are this way. maybe its just his personality. so what do you look at to sex a carpintis??
thats a good idea, i might try that. actually, all these guys are due to be transferred to my 210 this weekend, so i wonder if that would change things. if nothing works, ill just keep him in my 30g until i can find something a little bigger just for him. Do you guys think a 55g would work just for this guy?
first of all 30G on his own wont hurt him he could get to 6-7" at max in there before rehoming in a diff tank.
you could try reaquascaping as mentioned before, breaking up the terriotory and making more hinding spaces and caves you could also use some tubes or something that the loaches can fit in which he cant. after reaquascaping the tank and moving/changing everything around put him back in the tank in a week or soand see how things get on.
if all else fails you could do him a 55G which would set him for life i think, maybe even get a female in later stages of his life who knows.
i suspect he is becoming more aggressive now because he is getting on the verge of maturity and wanting to guard his territory and show everyone else who's boss.
if you put them in the 210 all the other fish will have more room to run away so this should help aswell.
you can tell the sex of them fairly easy enough by my knowledge anyways- MALE = more spangles on the gill plates, longer and pointier dorsal and anal fins, and venting them is also another way to tell (maybe to small at this age tho males is thiner and pointier), also nuchal humps tend to be more visible reaching the 6-7" mark.
FEMALE = not so many spangles on the gill plates, slightly shorter more rounded off dorsal and anal fins, and venting them aswell (females have a fatter tube which is hard to spot unless in breeding mode in which case it is fatter and shorter)
(please correct me if i am wrong)
below is a picture of a definate male hope this helps
