Gymnothorax Polyuranodon Aggression

[tongolino10]

I have two tiger morays, around 1ft each. The smaller of which attacks the larger one at random times and it seems to be unrelated to feeding aggression. I do not observe any wounds on the larger moray but it does seem distressed and tries its best to avoid the smaller one.

Is there any way I can combat this aggressive behaviour? How common are such displays of aggression among tiger morays?

 

[tlindsey]

I have two tiger morays, around 1ft each. The smaller of which attacks the larger one at random times and it seems to be unrelated to feeding aggression. I do not observe any wounds on the larger moray but it does seem distressed and tries its best to avoid the smaller one.

Is there any way I can combat this aggressive behaviour? How common are such displays of aggression among tiger morays?

Do you have hides for them if not add a couple of pvc pipes . Place one on opposite sides of the aquarium. If that doesn't help you'll have to rehome one of the moray.

 

[tongolino10]

Do you have hides for them if not add a couple of pvc pipes . Place one on opposite sides of the aquarium. If that doesn't help you'll have to rehome one of the moray.

Yes I do have hides for them. Right now I'm putting a partition between them because the bigger one seems to like to share hides with the smaller one despite there being two separate hides

 

[tlindsey]

Yes I do have hides for them. Right now I'm putting a partition between them because the bigger one seems to like to share hides with the smaller one despite there being two separate hides

Hopefully someone chimes in with a solution. I personally have had moray eel's but they were solo.

 

[Simonas]

Ive only ever had them solo I cannot imagine them being aggressive .

I'd try the extra hide holes and feed at opposite ends perhaps

 

[shern]

I have two tiger morays, around 1ft each. The smaller of which attacks the larger one at random times and it seems to be unrelated to feeding aggression. I do not observe any wounds on the larger moray but it does seem distressed and tries its best to avoid the smaller one.

Is there any way I can combat this aggressive behaviour? How common are such displays of aggression among tiger morays?

i keep a group of 5 GPs in my current 250g, they often exhibit nit picking behaviors towards one another when they live together.
on occasion one may try to bite another and it usually ends in a death curl for both eels but it sorts itself out very quickly.
i noticed more aggression when they were being introduced but now it has calmed down.
i have also never seen actual damage done by an adult tiger moray to another, that being said all five of my tiger morays are around the same size being 24”
i wouldn’t worry too much about their fighting but if it leads to actual open wounds i would separate them