Lip biting oscars

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zennzzo

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Around Christmas we got a pair of Oscars...they been just fine till today they are biting each others lips in what looks like a wrestling match...they are like 4" now and fed plenty...What to do, I got no more room to seperate them...
 
its a natural behavior for oscars to do this, as well as all cichlids

they are establishing dominance, it'll stop within a few days
 
yep, just the O equvalent of arm wrestling.
 
it depends how big of a tank are they in
 
My 2 O's did the same for awhile. But it stopped after a few days. Now he just chases the othere one around.
 
zennzzo;649904; said:
Around Christmas we got a pair of Oscars...they been just fine till today they are biting each others lips in what looks like a wrestling match...they are like 4" now and fed plenty...What to do, I got no more room to seperate them...

Post some pics of this.
 
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