Hi this is my first post on this website and I’m posting because I want to keep my fish safe.
I have 4 oscars (2 6inch and 2 3inch), 2 severums, and 2 common plecos in a 125 gallon. The 2 6inch oscars grew up together in the 55 until my black tiger started picking on the albino pretty bad to the point where I didn’t feel he was safe. I move the albino to the 125 where the other 2 oscars were growing. The white one picked on the smaller ones but then slowed down when he became the dominant one. Well recently I bought a red devil because he was at a petsmart for almost 2 months in a 10 gallon and it just felt wrong leaving him there and thought he would be comparable with oscars (i did more research and know that’s wrong) so I moved the black tiger out of the 55 and into the 125 but put up dividers and moved the red devil to the 55. The black tiger has since broken out of the dividers but he and the albino are now the same size and he seems a lot calmer. He chases the albino and the smaller fish but only every once and a while and only nips at the fins but even that looks soft for an Oscar and doesn’t leave damage and doesn’t flare his fins or anything that typically fighting oscars would do. Is this just him asserting dominance? Sorry this post is so long.
I have 4 oscars (2 6inch and 2 3inch), 2 severums, and 2 common plecos in a 125 gallon. The 2 6inch oscars grew up together in the 55 until my black tiger started picking on the albino pretty bad to the point where I didn’t feel he was safe. I move the albino to the 125 where the other 2 oscars were growing. The white one picked on the smaller ones but then slowed down when he became the dominant one. Well recently I bought a red devil because he was at a petsmart for almost 2 months in a 10 gallon and it just felt wrong leaving him there and thought he would be comparable with oscars (i did more research and know that’s wrong) so I moved the black tiger out of the 55 and into the 125 but put up dividers and moved the red devil to the 55. The black tiger has since broken out of the dividers but he and the albino are now the same size and he seems a lot calmer. He chases the albino and the smaller fish but only every once and a while and only nips at the fins but even that looks soft for an Oscar and doesn’t leave damage and doesn’t flare his fins or anything that typically fighting oscars would do. Is this just him asserting dominance? Sorry this post is so long.
