C. Orinocensis aggressive ability

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Jack Dempsey
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hi , i have a newcomer about 8" C. Orinocensis peacock bass, i got it back from a balance stock which was in a nursing tank from the LFS. My pals and i were guessing why this pc i got back was there with a weaker relative in the tank. The odds was this was the more dominant pc and had battled with the other inside and the latter had appearance confidence as a result plus some bruises.
Upon releasing and recuperating this fella in my comm tank, which already has a pair of juveniles of c. temensis and monoculus, it was orientating and making itself at home, no signs whatsoever.
But on the second say afte some water and filtration maintenance, this orinocensis appears to have conflict with the 5" peacock basses. The signs were trying to chase them away and aside and he was like a rooster which is in command to blow the bugle one. I was wondering if this is a sign of dominance and aggressive behavior, The symptoms overnight were scales drop and battle wounds on the tail ends and fin tear. Can somebody advice here as i have created a mock up barrier of drift wood and artificial plantage vegetation in the middle of the 80 gal. thanks cheers!:nilly:
 
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hi , i have a newcomer about 8" C. Orinocensis peacock bass, i got it back from a balance stock which was in a nursing tank from the LFS. My pals and i were guessing why this pc i got back was there with a weaker relative in the tank. The odds was this was the more dominant pc and had battled with the other inside and the latter had appearance confidence as a result plus some bruises.
Upon releasing and recuperating this fella in my comm tank, which already has a pair of juveniles of c. temensis and monoculus, it was orientating and making itself at home, no signs whatsoever.
But on the second say afte some water and filtration maintenance, this orinocensis appears to have conflict with the 5" peacock basses. The signs were trying to chase them away and aside and he was like a rooster which is in command to blow the bugle one. I was wondering if this is a sign of dominance and aggressive behavior, The symptoms overnight were scales drop and battle wounds on the tail ends and fin tear. Can somebody advice here as i have created a mock up barrier of drift wood and artificial plantage vegetation in the middle of the 80 gal. thanks cheers!:nilly:[/quote]
 
ok.. let me see if i understand this..

you bought an 8" Orino from your LFS and you put him into an established tank with 2 5" Tems. And the new big guy is hurting the smaller guys that were in the established tank?

You need to separate the new guy out into another tank.. when the Tems grow out and get closer to the same size as the Orino then you can try to put them back together again.

Temensis grow much faster than Orinocensis, so it shouldn't take very long at all before they are close enough to the same size to put them back together again.
 
I have to agree. Sometimes, using a divider, makes the problem worse. We have fish who fuss at each other through the glass in adjoining tanks. My wife put some backing between the tanks and they seem to settle down.

Another thing you can try is to rearange the tank when ever you add new fish. this puts everyone on nutral ground and helps aliviate some of the conflicts.
 
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