WEIRD............do fish have revenge?

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superkimchiman

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i have a 9 inch albino channa striata and i had that foo since he was only 2 inch 3 months ago. when i first got him, i put him in the same tank with the 3 inch tiger oscar. The oscar punked the SH for like 2 months until it got to 6 inch. Oscar is about 5 inch now.
The weird thing is i added a albino oscar, albino clown knife, pacu and a pleco in the tank also.
I would've thought the SH will murder the newcomers but instead he picks on the tiger oscar only.
Now its to a point that the oscar's body is full of scratches and alot of visible wounds... :swear:
The question is... is it normal for things like this to happen?
its funny because he lets all the other fish eat the feeder fish with him but he absolutely refuse to share with the tiger oscar and drives him to the corner of the tank and make sure he doesn't move...

anywaise give me some info.
depending on how things go, i would prolly be giving the tiger oscar away before he dies from stress or gets eaten. :(
 
Sounds like it is holding a grudge. lol
 
Haha thats awesome. I think fish think in a way more complicating than we expect them too.

I had a 8" Barca in a 100 gallon tank. Found a two 8" oscars for 5 bucks at a store. Anyways, I put them into teh barca tank, watched carefully for aggression. The Barca was fine with the oscars in there. Finally one oscar got too comfortable and flared its gills at the barca. The barca flared back, still sitting in its spot. The oscar advanced swimming in a 45 degree angle ( dunno why the oscar did this) and tried to bite at the Barca, big mistake. The barca immediatly charges the oscar and makes his side look like sashimi, no scales left. I took the oscar out and hospitalized it. Left the other oscar alone, it didnt bug the barca, and the barca didnt bug it. Weird how fish leave some fish alone and hate others.
 
haha seriously... and i thought fish were stupid but i guess not. i dun even have a lid on the tank where i keep my snakehead. only time he jumped out of the tank was when i was gone for the newyears weekend and forgot to feed him. he jumped in to the feeder fish tank that was next to it. he made it inside the feeder fish tank and ate everything...

you have a barca??? man i want a barca soo bad but can't find it anywhere. PM me if you're trying to get rid of it or could get me one
 
sorry man, mine jumped out of the tank even with weights on the lid. Found it too late. I would love to find another one, good luck!
 
I would not call it revenge. The oscar was a threat to the snakehead, so the snakehead had to get tough or get dead. The snakehead thinks of the oscar as competition or as a possable threat to it's life. It knows that it should not let it's guard down around this fish.

At any rate, I suggest sperating them ;)
 
there were seperated immediatly. The other oscar was in there for a long time, it never even went close to the barca.
 
i wanna see if my jardini get revenge on my clown knife when it gets bigger...il'll see in another month or 2
 
Every living thing has revenge I think. Where is love, is hate and is revenge.

Several times I saw when a little discus grew up he would bully the discus who used to bully him.

One of these cases became a couple. She was an adult bully his was a juvenile beauty. Now he is twice her size. They spawn and cannibalize their kids about twice a months.

A typical love-hate relationship.
 
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