Hi,
I have two female sliders and one male all almost 10yrs old, they get along fine but today for the first time one of my females was harassing the male, doing some cheek tickling to him instead of the other way around, he was not to happy about it and had his mouth opened warning her, she just kept at it until he bit her and latched on until I tapped on the tank with a stick.
In all the years I've never seen this behavor, any ideas or opinions?
is she just tired of his advances and trying to fool him into thinking she's a male?
I haven't seen her do this to the other female nor have I seen the second female do this.