I have a 7" hybrid syno cat, and he is aggresively attacking my 8" common pleco. He will not leave the pleco alone! any ideas? I do not want to get rid of the syno, but I might have to.
Kris
Kris
HELP!!! Aggresive hybrid syno
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nigaharu;3004579; said:
Actually, no! The pleco hides in a big piece of driftwood in one corner of the tank, and the syno hides in a large bell in the opposite corner. Whenever the pleco comes out of his hiding place to eat or just rumage around, the cat comes out and chases him back to the wood. My wife and I want to keep both of them, but it looks like the syno is trying to be the dominate fish... I would place the cat back in the 30 gal tank he was in for a year, but I think he has outgrown that tank. Bummer. He only is picking on the pleco. He leaves the angels and bala sharks alone...
Kris
Maybe there's not enough room in the tank for both of them. I would try more hiding places and then moving/re-homing one.
I have heard of syno cats attacking other bottom dwellers.
I have heard of syno cats attacking other bottom dwellers.
If addind more visual barriers doesn't help then try adding a new tank. If that isn't plausible then the pleco has to go. Is the pleco showing signs of durest ifn ot then it is natural for fish to have a pecking order. If syno is just chasing & then leaving after pleco goes to opposite end of tank then ok. if the syno is searching the pleco out to attack it then you have to seperate.
My old 6" Syno would chase my 7" Pleco any chance he got. He took a good size chunk out of the Pleco's dorsal fin, so the Pleco took the Syno's right pectoral fin OFF completely. At that point I took the Syno to the best LFS I could find for re-homing. I wish I had removed the Pleco instead...
Im gonna say that the tank is simply two small for the two fish. It is clear from the description that the syno has taken the tank for his territory and no longer appreciates the pl*co being in it. So you have a couple of choices
1. increase the hiding places
2. move tank furniture around. This disrupts the territories and forces the fish to find new ones. Usually works with cichlids, but i've had it work for catfish too
3. remove the pl*co
4. remove the syno
5. get a bigger tank (my favorite choice)
But its up to you, try 1 through 5 and see if any of them work. Good luck
1. increase the hiding places
2. move tank furniture around. This disrupts the territories and forces the fish to find new ones. Usually works with cichlids, but i've had it work for catfish too
3. remove the pl*co
4. remove the syno
5. get a bigger tank (my favorite choice)
But its up to you, try 1 through 5 and see if any of them work. Good luck