can you put hime in his own tank with a couple of cons or somthing he can't catch but still be the dominant fish, that could work also.
Urgent query for all you MIDAS/RD Experts
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Don't know if this will help, but I found this while looking through the media section. Seems someone had a similar problem and he believed it related to temperature..
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=382036
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=382036
Will check the temps and see if that can be the cause.
All other fish are perfectly normal, in looks and behaviour, though...
All other fish are perfectly normal, in looks and behaviour, though...
i say throw in a female... likelyhood is that the babies would be eaten anyway, unless you siphoned out the babies... a female will probably bring him back!
purplecandle;4791043; said:
You know this is somthing I didn't think about because I was focused on the dominance aspect but a decrease in temp between his previous tank and your tank could very well have an effect on the size of his nauchal hump and behavior. Increasing the temp in your tank could however increase the overall level of agrresion in the tank too. You should ask the guy you got him from what temp he kept him at. I remember when Jason had the trouble with his heaters and posted those pics. It is interesting how temp effects them and is deffinatly worth looking into. I just looked at the thrmometer in my RD's tank and it's 82 for what that's worth.
Purplecandle may have hit the nail on the head.
It was just luck that I found it, I was looking for pics of deformed EBJD's to make sure mine is not deformed..
I sure do hope this problem can be solved with such an easy fix. Good luck on getting your bull back!!
I sure do hope this problem can be solved with such an easy fix. Good luck on getting your bull back!!
It could very well be a dominance issue as stated already. Maybe a dispute you weren't there to witness? I would let him go for a while and see how it pans out. I would not introduce a female to the tank as it will usually induce aggression. Maybe in time he can find a central position in the hierarchy so he still feels dominant.
The second would be food IMO. If what you are feeding is different to his previous diet, it could have diminished his interest to eat. My midas does this all the time. The nights I feed Hikari floating pellets, he is at the top smashing them with gusto. The alternate nights I feed Masivore, he sits back at the bottom while every other fish is eagerly feeding.
Temperature is the third thing to consider but as Aquanero said, increasing temps can also induce aggression which brings us back to the dominance issue.
The second would be food IMO. If what you are feeding is different to his previous diet, it could have diminished his interest to eat. My midas does this all the time. The nights I feed Hikari floating pellets, he is at the top smashing them with gusto. The alternate nights I feed Masivore, he sits back at the bottom while every other fish is eagerly feeding.
Temperature is the third thing to consider but as Aquanero said, increasing temps can also induce aggression which brings us back to the dominance issue.
greenterra;4791506; said:
The place he was in, he ate Hikari Koi pellets, period. Of the cheaper, grosser, variety.
At the beginning, with me, he ate the Hikari floating sticks and spat out the Massivore ( all my other Midas/RD love Massivore ).
I will up the temps, well aware of the agression level increase, but the Aro's and Cichla will always stay on top of the others, so agression, I expect, will not be a big issue.
But I am leaning on putting him into the partitioned tank with the other bloke.
