nippy neons?

[ishar]

Has anyone ever heard of a neon tetra nipping the fins off of a bunch of cories?? All I have in my tank are some cories, some neons, and then some guppy fry. It is possible that the two cories that died last night (both with very nipped fins) already had their fins nipped when I bought them, but the other four in there are staying so elusive and I never see them, so I am wondering if there is some form of bullying going on??

 

[bunker_1]

I have not run into that. My neons stay about 8" above where the tetras swim.

 

[Kissyboots]

Hmmm. My neons didn't do much to any fish, but I've noticed that the danios get kinda nippy sometimes...

 

[jo3olous]

maybe your neons were cross breeded with tiger barbs





I forgot to note, this comment is in a joking manner. But the death of your fish is no joke, sorry for the loss

 

[bunker_1]

I forgot to note, this comment is in a joking manner. But the death of your fish is no joke, sorry for the loss

Running for office Jo3olous??

 

[TAL]

Hmmm. My neons didn't do much to any fish, but I've noticed that the danios get kinda nippy sometimes...

Sometimes???


Mine nips at just about everyone almost al the time.

She is on everybody's business!

 

[jo3olous]

Running for office Jo3olous??

lol i'd probably make a competent politician

 

[ishar]

soo....

anyone else think of any reasons why my cories might be so shy and hiding all the time then?

 

[bunker_1]

My cories seem to be a late night fish. They hide all day. If I leave my lights on too late, say around 10pm. They get very active. Maybe they are just trying to keep a different schedule than the neons??

Do they get more active after dark?

 

[ishar]

Well it is possible. What I think could be the main cause is that I have a lot of flow in the tank and I feel like they don't like it. They hide in the back corner of my tank (As I discovered this morning) behind some driftwood (the remaining four anyways- nipped fins were likely from the store ) where there is no flow. Well there isn't much light either so perhaps it could be that as well .

So I lost two of them to nipped fins (I assume), and they were likely quite stressed out on top of that, but these four still look healthy. I have food for them but I have to find a way to get it to them.

Thanks for the help everyone- I will update this as needed .

 

[bunker_1]

It really sounds like what mine do. But you could have a point about the flow. I moved mine to my 30" deep tank and they did get a little more active.