Victorian male dominance issue

iamzrad

iamzrad

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In my 15gal grow out tank, I have three male victorian flamebacks. One is making himself the dominant male and his colors show it and is picking on the other two.
How do I control this besides spilting them apart? The males are generally the same size and are a tad too small to be put in my main tank.

Any help is appreciated, maybe a screen spilter in the tank?
 
dogofwar

dogofwar

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Male vics tend to pound each other. The best is to keep them in a big group in good-sized tank. I also put subdominant males in breeder nets to keep them from getting beat up.
 
iamzrad

iamzrad

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They're locking mouths together.
I mean, they're not alone in the growout tank, I have a several male peacocks who keep the fussing down a little.
 
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toddnbecka

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I have an interesting mix in a 55; 2 male flameback Hap's (w/2 females) and 2 male P. nicholsi. The female nic's are in another 55 with the ruby greens for the time being. The 4 males take turns chasing each other around, with the weaker male Hap apparently at the bottom of the pecking order. The chanchito pair just swim around and ignore the rest, while the 2 buescheri stay mainly under cover. There's also a group of S. multi's in the tank. They were out and about quite often when the ahli's were in the tank, hardly at all since the Vic's replaced them.
 
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Heiko Bleher

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Hi,

this is Heiko Bleher and I colelcted many Victorian Cichlids, actually will talk about new cichlids on my upcoming lectures in London, Ontario this weekend and anyone of you guys should come to my lectures. I will also present my latest 400-discus-collecting adventure from last August and give presentation of my my latest (new) cichlid-discoveries and one about my field trip to North East India this February/March. No one should mis that unique 50th anniversary of the CAOAC in Canada.

But let me come back to your dominant male: There will almost at all times be a dominant male, that you cannot avoid (it is nature and has to be this way, unless you want to change nature... and make it unnatural). This is with most discus groups this way. Even with Discus and so many more.

You should not worry about that, normally never something serious happens, and they need to have one who guides and is the alpha animal. See also my biotope aquarium on Victorian cichlids I recently decorated:
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=251&Itemid=64
and go to "Deatailed description"

best regards

Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com
 
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1974Pantera

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I have kept Victorians for more than 20 yrs.

I would suggest adding more caves, pots to help with the aggression.

As posted, there will always be a dominant male but I have never found Kyogas to be killers. The other two males will split his time chasing the two.

Post some pictures, love to see those guys.
 
cmcpart0422

cmcpart0422

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Also add some fake plants. When I had young ruby greens they loved to sit in the fake plants and chill. They also grazed off of the algae that grew on them. Good luck!
 
Prince

Prince

The ONE who is The ONE
I am going through the same thing now with Rock Kribs and Ruby Haps. No mouth wrestling yet. They are just chasing each other around.
 
YSS

YSS

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In my opinion, 15 G is too small to hide from a dominant male. They need a bigger tank.
 
iamzrad

iamzrad

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Well 2 of 3 made it. I had two housed in a 29gal growout tank, one grew very fast and went dominant, so now he's in my main 125gal tank. The other is still in the 29gal and starting to color up nicely. Plus I found out they were not Flamebacks. But Pundamilia nyererei (Ruti Island).

Here's a pic of the dominant male,
rutiis7b0e127f36.jpg
 
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Cartel

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Wanna sell me the other? I have been meaning to get one for awhile where did you pick him up

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