Right now we have two 40 gallon critter tanks. I had 30 females divided
equally into the two tanks. Fighting occurred and so did weight gain, so
the mice were resorted with the aggressive and fat mice in one tank and the
peaceful, normal weight mice in the other. It still came out about
even. However, one by one, I've had to remove mice from the 'fat tank' as
they were being bullied to the point of blood. Now there are 8 mice in the
fat tank. Old age has come around and we have a ten gallon tank that has
three mice in it, one of whom is at the end of her life. The other two can
go into a regular tank. The one is a chatterer with no illness (she's been
checked repeatedly), while the other is just there as 'company'. Three
mice from the fat tank are going to go into that tank when it's free. They
fight constantly, but only with everyone else. They're equally matched and
seem to know that and leave each other alone. All of them just seem to
adore fighting. We find it extremely annoying! LOL. Peace should reign
in the 40's once those three are removed. No one else does more than an
occasional grumpy day. Some mice just seem to thrive on fighting while
just the stress of being in a tank with fighting is very hard on others.

Mouse Mom

At 03:19 PM 7/8/2009, you wrote:
>Hello. Well... I decided to wait it out a bit and see if the fighting
>would continue or stop. (... and yes, of course I'm sure that they are
>both girls... I've had them since they were babies)
>
>They still have an occasional scuffle, but there hasn't been any blood or
>anymore significant injuries and they seem to be getting along a little
>better. What's funny is that they almsot always sleep cuddled up together
>in their tube, but in the evening when they are out and about and eating
>and everything is when the "arguments" sometimes start. For the time
>being though, I'll just continue to keep and eye on them.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jen :)
>
>--- In Mouse@yahoogroups.com, "oneyellowbike" <imchaley@...> wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure they're both female? lol
> >
> >
> > In Mouse@yahoogroups.com, "Jen" <smellybellyje@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello everyone. I figured I'd post this on here, to see if any of
> you could give me some advice. I have a pair of female African Pygmy
> mice that are housed together in a 10 gallon tank. They are about 10
> months old. Up until about 3 or 4 days ago, all was well with
> them. Then suddenly they started to have occasional fights and the 1
> lost her tail. Everything that I have read says that Pygmies should
> always be housed in pairs or colonies and I've never really had issues
> with housing any females together.
> > > >
> > > > I would hate to separate them, but I also don't want them to
> continue fighting, or for one to get killed. The other issue is the fact
> that it would probably be difficult for me to capture just 1 and put it
> in a separate tank.
> > > >
> > > > Any advice would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Jen :)
> > > >
> > >
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