Re: community tanks

Andrew Boyd (andrew at pcug.org.au)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:38:28 +1000

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At 01:40 PM 10/14/96 +1000, Peter Hughes wrote:
>Has anyone else seen this sort of stable colour suppression
>in a tank and then rapidly altering due to an addition to the tank? I do
>not imagine that it would be all that rare. I have observed that sort of
>behaviour in tanks at shops that have a single species in a tank, perhaps
>Bruce would be able to comment about what a school behaves like in these
>sort of circumstances.

I think that in the confines of the tank we get much the same "Alpha Male"
behaviour as Cichlids exhibit: I know that the Ccihlids carry on the same
way in the wild, but would be interested to learn if Rainbows exhibit this
domininance stuff in nature.

So I guess my question is the same as yours, Peter. Does this carry-on
occur in the wild?

Regards, Andrew Boyd

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