Aimara eye damaged by dorado..

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Aimara don't handle moves well. They tend tio stay upset about moves for a while. Will go weeks without food if moved around alot. Dorado don't explode into freak out sesions like the wolves will. The dorado was likely a fraction the cost of the Aimara, no reason to act like it's the other way around.... Move the Aimara and the Dorado sees that, will get a big head and will know that another knockout blow gets him the tank to himself. Move the Dorado if it was the one that screwed up, the Aimara isn't going to see the trip to the qt/hospital tank as beneficial. IF the Dorado is the problem get him used to being moved to solitary after every incident. IF it learns great, if not replace with a Brassie. :)
 
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My dorado used to punk my larger armatus until I got rid of it.It would snatch food from the armatus and then chase it around...with the food still in it's mouth.
 
Well DB having actual experience with aimaras, would know better than me lol. And the way he put it, if it's true, I get it and agree.
 
Thanks for all the input guys, really appreciated. In my humble opinion, doradoes are just incredibly beastly fish. In the past, I've net out the dorado and put in another tank after spassing out in the net for a moment to only enter and start bossing every fish almost immediately.. I haven't net out either the aimara not the dorado yet as I've noticed the aimara to be hiding under the driftwood and not acting so aggressive at the moment. I think the brassie really put him in his place.. It was actually the aimara who would always try to bite the dorado if he swam by too often too fast but once the forado knew his weakness being slower than he was, it was only a matter of time. I have a divider set to arrive tmr so I will partition 1/3 of the space for the aimara himself as he heals while the rest share the other 2/3. This all being said, I really hope the aimara recovers fully as he was definitely about 10x the price of the brassie lol. Wolves definitely have remarkable resilience to them though. But in my experience of this hobby, I've come to accept that doradoes are probably THE most badass freshwater fish straight up, from attitude, how quick they heal, how fast they swim, constant patrolling and policing of everyone, so much lean muscle mass... Reminds me of United states of america. Lol
 
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The smaller dorado that I had few weeks back traded blows with the larger Pleuro in circles.

Smacked the Cuban Gar once or twice as well.

Thankfully the current one only harasses the tinfoils but left the others alone.
 
Red Aimara said:
The Aimara might jump from that place.

Is it better to get the dorado out first?

Looks like he got both eyes injured. Possibly he jumped or smashed into something inside the tank? Dorado is more of a body or fin biter as compared to species that go for the eyes.
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Oh ye? This is what a dorado did to one of my tats.

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Looks bad. Hope your tats recover nicely.

Anyway, not pointing out 100 percent dorado won't go for the eyes. It is an observation I seen in LFS where they keep lots of them together - I don't really see any with missing eyes.

Unlike ATFs and gars - those kept in big numbers within the same tank tend to have a few with whole missing eyes.
 
Odd "Brassies" are so cheap over there. I have 2 Brassies and had 2 Aimara. Both Brassies cost MORE then the Aimara, both times......

I've kept both Frankies and Brassies. Like I said, I've NEVER had ANY aggression whatsoever out of my Brassies, not to eachother (except shortly at first) not to any other fish.......

Frankies on the other hand..... An absolute nightmare to keep with anything but rays.......
 
Red Aimara said:
Looks bad. Hope your tats recover nicely.

Anyway, not pointing out 100 percent dorado won't go for the eyes. It is an observation I seen in LFS where they keep lots of them together - I don't really see any with missing eyes.

Unlike ATFs and gars - those kept in big numbers within the same tank tend to have a few with whole missing eyes.
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Unfortunately it had to be put down, the dorado took out the other eye as well when it managed to jump the make-shift divider.
It then proceeded to mess with some other fish and it was bye bye dorado :/
 
Wow i hope he recovers quickly for you......

This is a reason why i think all of us that keep larger fish should keep a small rubbermaid stock tank on hand for a hospital tank....
 
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