Should I Or Shouldn't I Get Another Female Swordie?

[FishBlast]

That load will be fine except that there is no way you will be able to keep all of the fry from even one female swordie for 5 years. They just expand their numbers too fast for that.

I won't even keep that many fry anyway. The other fish will take care of fry numbers, and I might even give away any survivors that might hide in the java moss or somewhere.

Anyway, they didn't have white or koi lyretails, but I saw a beauty I just had to have.
Meet Eris, the goddess of discord.

She's half pink, half black with green-blue glitter, like Cracker.
Cracker tried to flirt with her, but Bee smacked him hard... Now he just follows Bee closely while Eris is all alone behind the bogwood, pecking the moss. Lol @ Cracker trying to court Bee now... she is ticked off and jealous.

 

[FishFanatic04]

A little jealousy can spark a lot of romance lol Nice new addition!

 

[FishBlast]

A little jealousy can spark a lot of romance lol Nice new addition!

Looks like the ladies are fighting over the male's attention. They're hitting tails while Cracker watches. But now Cracker doesn't seem interested in Eris at all, he keeps following Bee with his tail lowered, it's so funny, it's like he's a cat that just got rained upon.

Side note: Bee is the most disgusting eater ever. No doubt. She performs a service of cleaning the fish poop before it even lands, she eats plant roots and just now, I saw her eating the remains of a snail trail.

 

[FishBlast]

A case of "One hits someone and that one hits the other next to them" just happened.
Eris pecked Bee's tail and Cracker was behind Bee. Bee thought Cracker pecked her, so she started chasing cracker and pecking him like crazy. LOL!

Hmm, seems like Beee is alpha. She swims with her tail raised while going around Eris.
And Cracker's acting strange. He swims back and forth towards Bee. But he doesn't show any interest in the new female anymore.

 

[FishBlast]

Eris has adapted quite well to the conditions and food. I hope I can make her look as beautiful as the rest of my fish, the poor girl was so thin and her tail shredded... Now she's a bit plumper and her tail seems to be growing back. I guess her tankmates at the shop nipped her.

Still, Bee wants to be the dominant one. Nothing can put her in place. LOL.

 

[FishBlast]

Poor Cracker's getting his sword handed to him. Neither female likes him and they just shoo him away. He's watching them from afar, sulking.