African Knife Fish VS Banded Leporinus

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Ravenfish

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I have a 65gal angled front tank that has been working as a community tank for about 6 months about 2 months ago i added a brown African knife fish to the works and about 2 weeks ago I added 2 tinfoil barbs and a Banded Leporinus well it seems like the Leporinus and the Knife fish(whom i have named Khan....seemed appropriate name for him :p) seem to be haveing some scuffles the knife fish has a few sores on his right side there are 3 logs in the tank and a good bit of vegetation i am not sure what to do i don't want the Leporinus to kill the knife fish he is one of the few i have ever seen come out but I don't want khan to kill the Leporinus he was exceptionally hard to find. Any ideas on what to do to the tank to minimize the fighting?
 
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Cichlaholics Anonymous

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you might want to unfortunately move the leporinus to a bigger tank away from the others, as it will continue to be very aggressive and eventually too big for the tank.
 
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kdrun76

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You are mixing African and South American fish. Troubles is what you should expect.
 
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kdrun76;3657071; said:
You are mixing African and South American fish. Troubles is what you should expect.
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that is quite a generalization and isn't necessarily accurate. plenty of people mix new world cichlid for example, with polypterus
 
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kdrun76

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Cichlaholics Anonymous;3657098; said:
that is quite a generalization and isn't necessarily accurate. plenty of people mix new world cichlid for example, with polypterus
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True enough, and I have a pleco in a tank with a tilapia. You are right it was too general of a statement. I do think it applies to this situation though.
 
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kdrun76;3657145; said:
True enough, and I have a pleco in a tank with a tilapia. You are right it was too general of a statement. I do think it applies to this situation though.
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leporinus can be a PITA, but they can be a PITA to other south american species too, it has little to do with their being from different continents
 
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kdrun76;3657071; said:
You are mixing African and South American fish. Troubles is what you should expect.
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lmao, try again
 
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