Help urgent! One of my red-eye tetra is killing my guppy! What should i do??

Question

One of my red-eyed tetra has been nipping one of my guppies tail. Now the guppies fin is almost all gone. The guppy is having trouble swimming and keeps swimming into the gravel. Is there anything i can do to save it? What should i do with the bully (red-eye tetra)?

Answer 1

Separate the fish.

Answer 2

they have plastic "fences" to divide tanks, that would be the quickest way to separate them. adding a new tank with new water could harm the guppy, but they are almost the most hearty of fish (tetras are usually used to "break in" a new tank) and you'll probably have baby guppies soon, you'll have to buy something for the babies to hide in as well.

Answer 3

No joke, this is what I did when I had fish. All I know is I had like 5 of the same type of fish then one of a different type. The one of the different type would kill one of the others every week. I just bought a fish of the same type as the one doing the killings, restocked with the other type of fish, and the bully was killed the next day and no more murders.

Answer 4

separate the two fish

Answer 5

buy a bowl and put the tetra in another tank.  next time do your research before you put to different breads of fish together.

i don't know what will happen to the tail of the guppy  =(  you should have moved teh tetra before the guppy lost its whole tail!

Answer 6

I Would Say Seperate The Fish

I May Not Know Anything About Tetra's But

Is It Only Killing The Males??

If So Buy A Fish Bowl, Put The Tetra In It And Maybe Get A Female

So It's Not Lonely

They May Multiply Though

It's Just An Act Of Territory

Answer 7

um i think you should sneak into his house or kill him and your at his house kill his pet