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From:Floral park, NY, United Sates
Registered: Dec 2002

posted 03-22-2003 11:21 AM         

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Hey, i have had a 4 inch jack dempsey for quite a while now and he has killed all my fish...i made sure that the fish i put in were all aggressive but he still manages to kill them. He killed an oscar that was 5 or 6 inches. He has also started to remove the gravel and make a hole down to the glass......wut is this about?....i need some info. please thanx

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From:Savannah,Georgia U.S.A
Registered: Jan 2003

posted 03-22-2003 01:01 PM         

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COOOL, my dempsey is JUST LIKE YOURS, dempseys are highly territorial and they like to dig holes either they lay their eggs on the clean glass, but usually they just love to dig.

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From:canada
Registered: Mar 2003

posted 03-25-2003 11:31 PM         

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Thats interesting because my jd named jack likes my oscars so much he actualy tried to mate with my largest oscar Ricky At 8"

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From:Hanover Park, I,l United state
Registered: Mar 2003

posted 03-25-2003 11:39 PM         

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I once had a cichlid w/ a piranha i do not know what type the cichlid was but it was real aggressive and it bullied my prianha and almost killed it I was shocked thinking that it would have been the other way around

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posted 03-26-2003 03:02 PM         

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Piranhas are very docile until it come to breeding and eating. I've found that piranhas
should only be put in with other piranhas.

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posted 11-11-2003 08:20 PM           

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You have to put your jack dempsy in the tank with other fish at the same time. Otherwise your jack will have already staked out it's terratory and will attack other fish that enter it. If you put the fish in at the same time they will all claim terratory. If you take your fish out and rearange the tank and then put it back in with other fish this may help. Plus you must have a larger tank +40 gallons if you want your dempsy to share with any other fish. As far as the diging jacks will often lay eggs on smooth surfaces but if it's alone then that is probably not why it's digging. It is probably just trying to create a habitat for itself. Make sure you have large rocks or clay pots for it to make a home in. This should also help with its terratorial instincts.

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