common oscar and convict cichlid

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I have a 2" Oscar and the other day i introduced a little smaller convict cichlid. It is a 50gal tank with a raphal catfish and a baby turttle also, all the fish are bigger than the turttle. The cichlid is the smallest fish and he is constantly chasing the other fish. Will that stress the oscer to death:confused:because i love my oscar and i would rather take the fish back than have a dead oscar. :nilly:

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Unfortunately convicts are particularly tenacious when it comes to showing who is boss. Try and break the lines of sight with wood and plants and create caves which the convict can claim, might help. Hopefully he will chill but some are just plain bullies. good luck
 
or just get rid of the con, not a particularly good community fish, and if you dont plan on upgradin the oscars tight in the 50 as it is
 
yeah esp. considering that convict is a lot farther along in maturity than the oscar.

Thats like a midget beating up a short fat kid.


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id get the turtle out of there. idk what kind it is but my buddy had a tiny one in a tank that he found. He threw in a much bigger frog and the turtle tore it apart. When we found it the frog had no skin and its back legs removed. Id take it out before you find out what that would look like on an oscar.

Covicts are also very annoying fish and often times will pick on everything in the tank. My younger brother had a tank with an oscar and a con and the con stressed the Oscar out so bad it was always sick with somthing. IMO the only good use for a convict is to feed a real monster fish.
 
get rid of the convict they are sick in the head like red devils are.I always made that mistake also ruining an imature oscar. Now i keep oscars with level headed fish like severums working for me. The turtle wil take nice bites from the nice fins on the oscar, get it out of their too.
 
IMO, you need to lose the turtle, fast, because, it will munch your fish, likely get too big, and also, the chances are that your turtle isn't fully aquatic. also, ditch the con.

p.s. just because it seemed like you didn't know this, oscars are cichlids too
 
Bought an "existing" 3 year old 75G tank set up that had 2 turtles about 6 and 8 inches AND an oscar about 9"s and 4 goldfish ranging from 4 - 6 inches. Weird, but it worked (have since split it up). So if you really want to keep everyone together, it just might work. I think somewhere in their little fishy/reptilian brains they just decide whether or not they like each other. If they do, life is good. If they don't, someone's food! My convicts are in their own tank, and after a pair mated I had to move all the other adult convicts into yet another tank. So the advice to x the convict's a good one if your fave's the oscar.
 
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