Altolamprologus compressiceps aggression?

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Jack Dempsey
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Earlier today I added a Calvus to my 92g set up of which includes a Altolamprologus compressiceps. The Calvus is about 2 inch and the Comp is about 1.5 inch but the aggression is pretty bad. The comp is rarely given the calvus a break unless the light is off for a period of time. No damage is really being done and calvus doesn't seem too stressed (he is not hiding from him) but it's really annoying to watch!!

Will the aggression improve? And how long should I leave it for until one of them has to go?





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I feel ya on this one , How Has it been going ? Some times I put the fish that is being to hard on the others in time out , I will use a 5gal bucket and keep him there in the dark for 24 hrs Or longer depending on the fish all while maintaining healthy water conditions for the fish except eating I feed no food during my time outs , This seems to work giving the fish getting hammerd on time to quickly find its self with out another nagging on it , Then replace the more aggressive fish with switching around the decor and hopefully confusing it and defusing the aggression
 
The aggression has got a little better, it seems more territorial than out and out aggression. I have put a rock like ornament in the for the calvus to claim his own. So the two fish are at each end of the tank but whenever the the comp see's the calvus he will batter him for a bit.

The comps lips look like they are starting to get damaged a little from the calvus' scales so I am hoping he will start to lay of him a bit for his own good!!


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Provide shells and place them far away from each other. You dont need to worry about the scales of Altos since its hard and they intentionally get it bitten, what you need to worry about is lock jaw due to aggression, something beyond our control.
 
raj914 said:
Provide shells and place them far away from each other. You dont need to worry about the scales of Altos since its hard and they intentionally get it bitten, what you need to worry about is lock jaw due to aggression, something beyond our control.
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What do you mean lock jaw? Are you talking about lip locking?

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Unfortunately it hasn't got better, I took the comp out for a couple of days and put him in my sons tank with some little tetra and Cory's and he has nipped all the Cory's fins so I put him back in the bigger tank for a second chance and he kicked off straight away!




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