Has any one had any luck with the Time Out Tank Method. What I mean is taking an aggressive fish and placing him in a seperate tank alone. I was curious if this works?
Time Out Tank
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yea it works.....i make my fish sit in the corner and face the wall sometimes too..........hahahaha
na it doesn't work..............
na it doesn't work..............
What kind of fish?
of course you cant teach a fish anything by punishing it,but if you have a group of similar sized similar aggression level fish,taking the "bully" out for a few weeks gives the others a chance to recover any injuries and establish a new order of dominance.So when he returns hes now at the bottom of the pecking order.
Still,doesnt always work,I do that with one of my mbuna tanks and I usually have one fish in solitary
of course you cant teach a fish anything by punishing it,but if you have a group of similar sized similar aggression level fish,taking the "bully" out for a few weeks gives the others a chance to recover any injuries and establish a new order of dominance.So when he returns hes now at the bottom of the pecking order.
Still,doesnt always work,I do that with one of my mbuna tanks and I usually have one fish in solitary
gomezladdams;481822; said:
I agree...it can work in some situations but certainly won't work all the time. I've taken an aggressor out and put it either in a 5 gallon bucket for a few hours or a smaller tank for a few days. then I rearrange the main tank and let the fish in there establish a new pecking order and reintroduce the aggressor. I've had it work a few times and others it didn't matter, the larger aggressor still took over again.
It's not as bad an idea as it sounds. Certainly, it doesn't work the way some thought. You can't punish the fish and expect it to behave better, but I have had some luck with my fish doing this...not so much a time out, just time apart. As mentioned above, it can help with the dominance thing. I had a Male and Female JD, the female was a bit larger and used to torment the mulm out of my male. So, I put her in the midas tank on the other side of a divider and let her live there for a week. The male wasn't so afraid to come out and started seeing the tank as being his, so when I re-introduced the female she wasn't top dog and he wouldn't back down and now they're a happy couple. Always swimming together, rarely biting at one another, and when they do, its' normal, not overly malicious.
I've had similar success with my oscars. They were in a 75G and the larger one started beating on the smaller one, tore him up a bit. I put them in seperate tanks, let the smaller oscar have the big tank for a while, meanwhile the big one lived in the 48G. Put the big one back in the 75 and the little guy stood up for himself, even locked jaws for a day or two with the big one, now they are back to being buddies and following each other everywhere.
So I guess it's not a timeout tank, it's a let the weak one get established in the tank before letting the bigger one back in. I don't think it would necessarily help interspecies fighting, a RD and a Uro aren't going to get along either way unless they have enough space, but it has worked for me with violent pairs.
I've had similar success with my oscars. They were in a 75G and the larger one started beating on the smaller one, tore him up a bit. I put them in seperate tanks, let the smaller oscar have the big tank for a while, meanwhile the big one lived in the 48G. Put the big one back in the 75 and the little guy stood up for himself, even locked jaws for a day or two with the big one, now they are back to being buddies and following each other everywhere.
So I guess it's not a timeout tank, it's a let the weak one get established in the tank before letting the bigger one back in. I don't think it would necessarily help interspecies fighting, a RD and a Uro aren't going to get along either way unless they have enough space, but it has worked for me with violent pairs.