i have 1 tiger oscar and a pleco in my 95 gal tank.
the tiger oscar is about 3 in long.
i bought 2 albino oscars today and my tiger oscar is bitting at them. . . . . . . idk what to do! the 2 albino oscars are the same exact size as the tiger.
how do i stop the fighting!!!!
2007-07-11 16:53:44 · 7 answers · asked by Sean M 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Young Oscars are often much more aggressive than the adults. The Tiger Oscar has claimed the tank as his territory. They will chill out when they get older, but for now you can either separate them, or you can try rearranging all the decorations in your tank. Re-doing the territory may work, but I can't make any promises. Another option would be to return the albinos or tiger and get severums, salvinis, jack dempseys or other medium sized cichlids that the oscar won't see as a challenge or threat. A different approach would be to get "dither' fish for the tiger to take his aggression out on. Tinfoil barbs, tiger barbs, silver dollars and giant danios will work wonders. Of course, the tinfoils will grow to the same size as the oscars, and the tigers and danios will get eaten eventually.
2007-07-11 17:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by fivespeed302 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is normal behavior for the tiger oscsar, since they are very territorial fish, and most probably it has claim the whole tank as his. You can try to put in a transparent divider between the tiger oscar and the new albinos for a week or so, and see how it goes from there.
Or you can also try removing the occupants then, rearrange the decor before putting them back in the tank, this should confuss the tiger oscar to thinking that it is in a new environment where he has no claim of territory yet.
Good Luck.
2007-07-12 00:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by aquamac 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds to me like your tiger oscar has marked his territory. It sounds like he was there first and is probably a little irritated that there are some new fish that might threaten that. I am new to fish but I have read that if you have a fish acting aggressive to another fish that it can help to move the items around in your aquarium so that a new territory can be decided by the old and new fish. Can't promise it will work but it seems logical to me.
2007-07-12 00:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by SquirrelPanic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ditto to fivespeed... rearrange the tank decor. I would only add it will work best if you remove the Oscars, rearrange then add back the new fish, wait a little while and then add back your first Oscar. Still, even then like fivespeed said, no promises it will work.
MM
2007-07-12 00:08:50 · answer #4 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
rearrange your tank decor, feed them, turn off the lights separate them until the albino oscars are bigger or return the fish.
2007-07-12 00:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and even if you can get them to stop fighting now when they get bigger there will be more problems, a 95 isn't big enough for three fully grown oscars.
2007-07-12 00:25:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't -- that what oscars do - they fight to establish domenice
2007-07-12 00:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by theevilfez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋