my lobster attacked my loach

[fishmanuk]

ive got a lobster with my tropical fish hes about 6 inch long. now ive had him in my tank for about 2 months and everything has been ok up until this morning.i always keep him well fed with frozen fish but when i looked in my tank this morning my lobster and one of my bottom feeders where having a bit of a fight,the bottom feeder is only about an inch long, i managed to seperate them, but the lobster had eaten all of my bottom feeders finsoff, plus its tail and its covered in scratches with blood in them, its not eating at the moment just lying still in the tank so i dont no if he will survive or not has anyone got any suggestions on what to do
ps will his fins and tail grow back

 

[wuvmybetta]

Well....I'd recommend moving one of them into a hospital tank.More than likely the loach could use some hospitalizing.

If you don't have a hospital tank,I'd keep the water extra clean and add some melafix. But now you have to decide which you'd rather have,the lobster or small fish. The two just don't mix.

 

[kaley822]

awww keep the small fish, i feel bad for the guy

 

[FishDan]

The lobster will continue this with your other fish. Any fish that is slow enough, sleeping/resting near the bottom, or just plain unlucky enough to get to close will be attacked and made a meal of by the lobster. I feel bad for your fish, but I have never had to deal with this type of injury so I don't know if the fish will be healed with treatment or not. I do know that the lobster will continue this behavior, well fed or not. It's just doing what it's instincts tell it to do. If you want to keep the lobster, try keeping it with fish that stay in the mid- to upper levels of the tank, though even they may get victimized at some point (usually at night, when they are less active). Or try getting it a smallish seperate tank.

\Dan

 

[fishmanuk]

i added meds to my loach and within a few hours he was dead

 

[Logitech]

Sorry for the loss of your Loach. I'd seperate and put the lobster in a tank on it's own. It's bound to do this to another bottom-dwelling fish, a slow fish, or a sleeping fish.