I have had my pair of angelfish for three years now. I had gotten so board of only having two angelfish so I decided too buy three more.
. After I had gotten the three I had realized that they were all males. My breeding pair are huge. the male is about 7 inches tall and 6 inches long. The female is 1.5 inches smaller both ways. I had had these three males for one month. When I had gotten them I thought I had two males and a female. I got rid of the the only two I thought were males, and kept one. That one is now about 6 months old and I found out about two weeks ago that is was a male. This male which is not half the size off my breeding dominant male is always challenging him. This male has been damaged severely during the breeding of the pair. They have damaged his eye sight permanantly.
. Though all of this he still follows the dominant males female, and challenges the dominant male.
. The dominant male makes many threats to the much smaller male yet it never backs down. The smaller male actually tries to intimidate the bigger male, and it some times it works. The smaller male also cleans areas like he is to breed, but when the dominant male sees this he charges right at him. So my question is why is this male not backing down to the dominant male, and showing submission
. The younger males genital papalia is out, and so is the dominant males. Only the dominant males should be out. The dominant male doesn't show much interest in the younger male. I noticed all of his attention has always been on the female breeding. When I had gotten this old male I got him with six other angelfish. They were all the same size, and he used to fight and put every other in submission. This is before him and the female became a mated pair. After that he focuses all of his attention on her for three years and is allot less aggressive toward other fish.
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