Nexorcist
Fish Fanatic
HI everyone.
I'm fairly new to hobby (about 5 months).
I started out with 3 Bettas in 3 gal. then moved to 10 gallon, and just last night started a transition to 29 Gal.
I currently have:
3 sunset platy (2 male and 1 female) thanks to this forums i can tell the sex
2 coral red platy (1 male and 1 female)
1 Striped Raphael catfish (i never see him so don't know the sex)
1 Plecostomus (sex unknown)
Without a clue about fishless cycle in first 3 month i encountered every fish desese in the book.
After loosing all my Bettas i got 3 male guppies and 3 sunset Platys mentioned above.
Guppies keep going after Platys non-stop, after 2 weeks i returned guppies to fish store and got what i hoped was 2 MALE coral red plays.
So now i have total 3 male and 2 PREGNANT female, i went ahead and got a bigger tank to be ready for the fry.
The biggest problem i have now is one of the male Sunset platy keep harassing everyone in the tank (except for pregnant red platy and it just started about a week ago) and combined with transition to new tank all of them are under high stress.
I know my male to female ratio is the biggest problem but i really dont want to get more females.
Is there anything i can do to stop the harassment besides getting more females ?
Any advice will be helpful.
Thanks.
I'm fairly new to hobby (about 5 months).
I started out with 3 Bettas in 3 gal. then moved to 10 gallon, and just last night started a transition to 29 Gal.
I currently have:
3 sunset platy (2 male and 1 female) thanks to this forums i can tell the sex
2 coral red platy (1 male and 1 female)
1 Striped Raphael catfish (i never see him so don't know the sex)
1 Plecostomus (sex unknown)
Without a clue about fishless cycle in first 3 month i encountered every fish desese in the book.
After loosing all my Bettas i got 3 male guppies and 3 sunset Platys mentioned above.
Guppies keep going after Platys non-stop, after 2 weeks i returned guppies to fish store and got what i hoped was 2 MALE coral red plays.
So now i have total 3 male and 2 PREGNANT female, i went ahead and got a bigger tank to be ready for the fry.
The biggest problem i have now is one of the male Sunset platy keep harassing everyone in the tank (except for pregnant red platy and it just started about a week ago) and combined with transition to new tank all of them are under high stress.
I know my male to female ratio is the biggest problem but i really dont want to get more females.
Is there anything i can do to stop the harassment besides getting more females ?
Any advice will be helpful.
Thanks.
