my tropical fish is always trying to eat my other fish that are smaller than him. but when i bought him i was told he wasnt a canibal towards other fish. if your an expert or have experienced this problem please tell me. and soon cause he is getting really aggresive.
2006-07-25 03:44:18 · 9 answers · asked by bunnyhop b 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
There is nothing wrong with the fish you bought. It is a perfectly healthy cannibalistic fish, or fin nipper. However, when you bought him, the person you spoke with was suffering from a very common, and extremely serious condition known as "lying to make a sale."
This illness is reaching epidemic proportions among aquarium sales representatives. Symptoms include night sweats, greed, and can even lead to death (of your fish) in advanced cases. You have a moral obligtion to try to cure this poor sick person.
Thankfully, the disease is very easy to cure in an individual. First, locate the reciept of the fish you purchased, and the reciept of any fish killed by this fish. Then place the fish you are having problems with in a plastic bag with some water. If you have any fish corpses, package them similarly in a separate bag. Place the recipets in a back pocket, or a dark recess of your purse/wallet.
Take the bagged fish to the store you bought it from, along with any dead fish, no matter where they came from, and find the employee who told you the fish was not cannibalistic. Call them a bald faced liar, start crying about how it killed X number of fish, and nearly killed X number of your fish, damaged the fins of X number of additional fishes, etc. Feel free to increase the numbers of nearly killed and injured fishes to suit the enormity of the employee's original lie. After this, demand a refund for the offending fish, and demand financial compensation for any dead fish that you have.
If speedy returns are not provided, you are probably dealing with a pet store where the "Lying to make a sale" bacteria has infected everyone. An effort at "fumigating" the premises may be made by requesting to speak with the manager, in which case, you will have to act a little more composed, and talk about fairness, truthfullness, etc. the manager may argue that aggressiveness is very rare in this particular fish, or that it has never to their knowledge been kept with the fish you have. In this case, counter that if there was even a chance that it might have been hostile to the fish, you should have been informed as to the possibility, and that you only wanted what was best for your fishes, etc. This may not cure the problem entirely, but they should be much more cautious about their health in the future.
As a general rule though, every fish type described by a pet store employee is better behaved, less aggresive, and more adaptable to unusual conditions than the particular fish which they are able to net and sel to you. Reading up on the fishes you are interested in will help to reduce this sort of problem in the future.
2006-07-25 09:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most fish are teritorial no matter what speicies they are. So you could have too small of a tank. It would help if you tell what speicies the fish that you're having problems with is. Or your fish is agressive from instinct and if he is a chiclid that would be the problem. but since you say he is bigger than the other fish I would say it is just a teritorial thing and he should'nt kill them just clip thier fins. This has happened to me before and I put many rocks that the small fish could hide in.
2006-07-25 05:59:34 · answer #2 · answered by ChelZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's only natural. if something can *fit* in a fish's mouth, said fish will eat it.
there is no such thing as a "fish" canibal. it's like us eating other mammals. because something walks on land and breathes are, doesn't mean we can't eat it! i'm a veggie--as are some fish.
in the wild, fish eat what they can get--an instinct that hasn't left them. they shouldn't bother anything that can't fit in their mouthes too easily, but some fish are just more agressive. go do some research on your fish online and see what you get. good luck!
2006-07-25 04:40:41 · answer #3 · answered by amaranth628! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Molly fish will devour flakes, freeze dried, and undoubtedly are living meals They don't devour eachother, regardless that. They also are well for first puppy house owners, no longer that you're. Good good fortune together with your new puppy!
2016-08-28 18:17:18 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fish will sometimes become aggressive for what seems to be nothing.nearly all fish are cannibalistic.one reason, other than cannablism, that a fish may become aggressive is dominance.if it is the dominant fish in your system, he will bully other fish for no reason at all.
2006-07-25 04:17:37 · answer #5 · answered by retrac_enyaw03 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's life. The food web. (It depends on what kind of fish)
2006-07-25 09:04:07 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of fish are they?
2006-07-25 03:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Joe S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try removing him from the tank they do this beause they want the tank to them selves. Also try introducing sharks
2006-07-25 05:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by Uchihaitachi345 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you might not be giving then enough food or they hate each other
2006-07-25 05:07:14 · answer #9 · answered by Brittany J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋