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i have a 29 gallon fw tank with only two angels and a tiny cory these angels are also small about and inch from top to bottom the bigger one of the two although is getting chopped at which i cant understand one bit. when i had these two fish in a ten gallon tank (three weeks ago) their fins were completely fine but now in a bigger and nicer enviorment they want to get frisky??? why is this if anyone has any clue please help i would really like to get this angel back to its original niceness
thanks james

they could be biting eachother, or fin rot. if those are the only fish then, they are not getting fin nipped, by fin nipping fish.

chizunk

Could be several reasons but first have you seen this actually happen.

If not it could be finrot. Different water perameters.
Other factors trying to establish their own areas in the new tank. Are they of breeding size?

Keith

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i reckon this problem is a territorial(correct spelling?) issue, with time they should stop...if not then yeah could very well...be a disease! treat the tank, if that doesn't work, try seperating the angels!
I thought that angels were a schooling fish anyway? mine nip each other when they get to close to one another! bah i'm confused! hehe

Do you see them nipping each other?.
Do you see any finrot?.
The Corydoras need more friends, so after treating the Angels, get some more, please.


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I've seen this happen when people get only two angels and expect them to get along. One of them is trying to establish dominance, and in so doing is making the other's life miserable. This happens with a lot of semi-agressive fish, and eventually the less-sominant one will be so stressed out due to bullying that it may die. With fish like this, you want to keep either just one or more than three so that the agression is spread among multiple individuals and it's not just one getting picked on all the time.
They are too small to be a breeding pair, and even if they do both survive to maturity, there's no telling if they will form a mating bond with each other. I'd get at least two more angels of the same size and allow them to grow up together. If a breeding pair forms, remove the others and just keep the mated ones in that tank.

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um yes i have seen them nip at each other before so i know thats the problem. but if they were breeding sizes is that normal for them to nip.

Do you know it their a pair or not?.
Angels nip at each other to establish terrirories, but nothing really serious & only a few marks are noticed.


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