Channel Catfish Problem

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Hoyo12

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The problems I'm having just keep piling up. My Red Bellied Pacu has become very aggressive lately. My Albino Oscar did a dumb thing and wen't to go bite the Pacu, but the Pacu got him by the jaw, and ripped it up pretty badly. Now he has beaten up the Channel Catfish so bad, that I had to take him out of the tank so he could heal. One of his barbels (Whiskers) was completely torn off. Any idea if it will grow back? He has a long time to heal yet, ripped fins, bitten face, ect. Things were going great, the Pacu had lived with the Channel for a little more than a year now with no issues, so this just started to happen.
 
Thats one of the reasons I hate pacu.
 
I have had fish snap in the past. Don't know who, what, why it happened, just did.

You did the right thing in moving the cat. Now your Pacu might have to live in solitary.
 
part of taking risk,stuff jsut happens, any thing coulda set off the pocu woulda happened anyway
 
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