Boys will be Boys

NCaquatics said:

These three have established a hierarchy and its interesting to see. You can tell the most dominant by how he holds all of his fins out, the second dominant only has his dorsal ouspread, and the lowest has all of his fins tucked in.

This is how the 3 of them display to one another, and proceed to chase the lowest around the tank like a bunch of chihuahuas after a mailman. But dont separate them, because then they mope and hide constantly. They are always together this trio. The two mickey mouse blues are brothers from the same brood born in this tank.

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Bonus photo, the tiny brothers when they were just a couple weeks old.
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vanalisa said:

How bad does the chasing get? I mean is the least dominant one going to get hurt?

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NCaquatics said:

Hes chased, the odd nip, but no damage. He follows his brother immediately after regardless. Ive separated them before and they got depressed, go figure lol

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vanalisa said:

That's promising. I had 2 and one mysteriously died. What do you think about a trio of males with 6 minnows and 4 Rainbow furcatus and 2 Amano in a 20g?

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Retired Viking said:

That is so cool, would like to see a short video if possible. Looks like you have plenty of hiding spot in case things get out of hand.

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NCaquatics said:

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It worked for the blue's mom!
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Retired Viking said:

That is so cool, would like to see a short video if possible. Looks like you have plenty of hiding spot in case things get out of hand.

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