Hello/Help me please!!
I have a 110 litre aquarium and a number of fish (will list at bottom) I recently added four female guppies and two male.
Almost as soon as they were in one or two of my three black widow tetras picked out one of the male guppies and started attacked him, biting pieces from his tail. (I had three black widows for a long time then two died, I replaced them with these two newer ones about 2 months ago).
The older black widow was not involved and I couldnt tell if it was one or both of the newer ones so I have quarantined them both.
Unfortunately, by this time the other fish noticed the injured guppy and all hell broke loose, as you can imagine.
I still have the two quaruntined (how do you spell that?)and was looking for some advice on how to proceed.
I am concerned that if I reintroduce the two bad boys they will simply work their way through the remaining guppies. Was the guppy weak in a way only the the other fish could sense, triggering the attack?
Any help you can provide would be very very welcome!!
Fish owned: 3 Silver (Bala) Sharks, 3 flame tetras, 3 silvertip tetras, 3 black widow tetras, 2 cardinal tetras, 1 gold spotted plec, 1 red tailed black shark, 1 ram, 1 kribensis, 6 sorry 5 guppies.