Hi guys I have a Synspilum, about 5 inches. He has been housed with a texas which was the same size at the timeand another syn which was about 7-8inches. Both the texas and other syn were rehomed due to aggression. My current syn now shares is tank with 4 x 2 inch clown loaches and 4 inch ghost knife and is totally fine with all of them, no aggression at all. I added a 2 inch oscar recently, he was in the tank only a couple of mins before he seen the syn, the oscar flared up and the syn took off. 2 more mins passed and the oscar and the syn crossed paths once again, this time the oscar charged right at the syn with mouth opened and gills flared as if he was trying to start a fight....Syns response was to bite him right on the eye. Oscar eye looked pretty bad and though he may loose it so was moved to a hospital tank and treated with melafix to ward off an infection. The oscar died unfortunately, Not sure if it was from the injury, the meds, the stress of it all....prob all played a part.
Anyway back on track.... i want to add more cichilds but now i dont know if i can trust my syn? I dont want to add larger fish as i enjoy watching them grow as babies. WHat do you reckon i should do? Move him on and start again? or try again with another fish and risk injury? Untill the oscar he had been nice and chill and never even fought back when other fish were picking on him. He is starting to colour up nicely and would like to keep him but can move him on if its for the best
Anyway back on track.... i want to add more cichilds but now i dont know if i can trust my syn? I dont want to add larger fish as i enjoy watching them grow as babies. WHat do you reckon i should do? Move him on and start again? or try again with another fish and risk injury? Untill the oscar he had been nice and chill and never even fought back when other fish were picking on him. He is starting to colour up nicely and would like to keep him but can move him on if its for the best
