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hey everyone,i have 2 green severums and some asorted tetras in a custom 2 footer,its alot higher and wider than a standard 2,anyway i had the female severum first and she tryed hooking up and laying eggs with a male salvinso i whipped him out so they couldnt cross,well my female severum kept on pumping out the batches of eggsbut as there was no male so nothing happened(of course)so i picked up a male severumbut he was a bit smaller than her so she could remain in chargewhen i added him she gave him a few pecks and all went well,she kept on laying eggs,but she would go super green in colour and turn nastyand not let him anywhere near the eggs to fertilize them,well that went on for a while and he just stays out of her way when she has eggs.ok now in the mean time he has overtaken her in size,due to his greedy appititeand in the last 2 days he has herrased her to the point where she would not come out from behind this treestump ornement in there,he just wont stop,is he trying to get her to lay again so he can do his thing.i have a divider in there now,she seems ok today and her colour is back and she has eaten, he is not herassing the tetras they dont exist to him,and he still sometimes trys to get her throo the divider.does anyone know why this is happeningis he telling me its time to move him into one of my larger tanks,i know this tank is small for them but they did seem happy untill a couple of days agoive checked all my water parameters,and they are all fine,everything is normall i cant see what the problem is

ps,these are not the severums i have that are minding the convict fry they are in another tank,the above severums are actully my daughters fish