chaos in my 150gal!

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rjkz28

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hey guys just wanted to give you all an update of my tank and also wanted to hear some of your opinions. in my 150 gal i have a 7-8inch female festae, 2 5inch ornatus, 3-4inch salvini (not sure of sex), 4-5inch peacock bass, 4inch green texas, and a few rare plecos. my festae and male ornatus pretty much paired up. they go after everything especially the female ornatus. can home from work today and found the female ornauts pretty banged up, so i took her out and put her in my 75 and took out my 7-8inch female freddy and put her in the 150. i did at one point have the freddy in the 150 when it was just the festae and the festae was much smaller and the freddy beat her pretty good so thats when i put the freddy in the 75. im just curious to as what you all think will happen with the freddy and festae now that they are pretty much the same size and the festae has ruled the 150 since i took the freddy out and added the rest of the fish that now currently in there. thanks for reading and any comments welcomed!
 
the festae will probably try to defend its terrirtory..... you will have a few liplocks if the freddy doesnt back down
 
yea thats what i figured. i wondering if i take out the salvini and texas if that will help all the aggression or just make it worse? im going to see how it goes over night. if it looks bad when in the morning, ill just setup my 30 and throw the beat up ornatus (female) in there and put the freddy back in the 75. im also going to be adding a really big piece of wood in my 150 from my freinds 210.
 
anybody else have any input on if my freddy and festae will get along?
 
rjkz28;4811021;4811021 said:
anybody else have any input on if my freddy and festae will get along?
probably not festae and freddys are highly agressive.... how have they been acting? A festae or freddy could easily claim a 150 easily....
 
update. just got home from a buddys and the festae is a little torn on upper lip, top dorsal fin is a lil ripped. no scales missing. freddy side fin is a lil ripped. they seem ok now. both swimming around, basically avoiding each other as much as possible. hopefully everything will still be ok tomorrow morning. i have my fingers crossed!
 
rjkz28;4811229;4811229 said:
update. just got home from a buddys and the festae is a little torn on upper lip, top dorsal fin is a lil ripped. no scales missing. freddy side fin is a lil ripped. they seem ok now. both swimming around, basically avoiding each other as much as possible. hopefully everything will still be ok tomorrow morning. i have my fingers crossed!
at night is when the massacre will happen... this happened to me a month ago with my RD and oscar woke up to a almost dead oscar...... The thing is the Festae nor the freddy will stop fighting untill dominance is established.....if they are of equal size they will probably continue fighting for a while my GT and flowerhorn go at it every onc and a while the dominance changes every month....
 
woke up this morning and and all is well! they must not have fought during the night cause neither one of them has any new marks.
 
If your ornatus and festae spawn the rest of the inhabitants are in trouble. On the bright side you would have some ridiculously awesome fry and I want 10 of them! Lol
 
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