Advice for breeding Red Spot Severums
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I agree, I will work on that
I had this happen in the past when I had a male and female trimac, but when the lighting would switch over to the blue night mode the male would totally act as if he did not recognize the female around would start to attack her. When normal lights were on the next day acted as if all was normal. I think this was the case with the sevs. The female that was acting aggressive towards the alpha male and was showing a paired interest with the beta male, is now chasing the smaller male and does not want him around her. I think she is slightly larger than him and treats him as a bit inferior. Now Im thinking to take the alpha male and the female and put them into the 65B to try and figure it out with no other fish to stress them out.
Since I havent really had time to be around the tanks much over the past couple day, I have been avoiding moving the old male back in. Something needs to happen because the current pairing is not good at all. Seems to be a bad pair that just do not like each other. Female seems to not like this male and it shows. Im thinking this weekend to rearrange the stock. Hopefully all goes well.
In my unsolicited opinion, you're being wildly impatient with these fishes. You don't just throw two cichlids together and expect them to work things out overnight; it takes time, and all your meddling is not helping matters.
I had to at least give relief to a fish that was getting daily beat downs, which has been accomplished. While the female may not like the male in her tank, she is not chasing him and tearing up his fins, so a small win. I really dont care if the fish breed, but at the moment I can take on raising a batch of fry so I am willing to let them have a go at it. Im honestly just looking for a bit of calmness in the 90 gallon community which it currently has.
In the end the original dominant male and female are now in the 90 gallon and they are doing great together when it comes to daily living. No aggression with each other but no attempt at breeding either, which is totally fine since there is such a calmness to this tank. The other male ended up in the 300 where he is doing well with the red tail giant gourami. This balance can of course change in a heartbeat if fish change attitude but I at least am enjoying the peacefulness of my tanks.