I recently purchased a juvenile peacock bass for my aquarium, it is no bigger than 1 inch. I thought he was big enough to not be eaten by my juvenile tiger oscars, they are both about 2 - 2.5 inch. but while i was watching tv i looked over at my aquarium and the peacock bass was sticking half way out of the larger oscars mouth. I jumped up and stuck my hand in the tank a scared the Oscar and he spit the peacock bass out. After that the peacock was kinda acting funny... like it was not swimming very fast and kinda easy to catch. I have quarantined the peacock from the other fish until he gets a little bigger. He is swimming little better, not eating yet though, but he doesn't look harmed as he is swimming fine, but reacts a little slow. Is it possible for a fish to be tramatizeud, just wondering why he was acting kinda sluggish like this. Any comments would help greatly. thanks
Juvenile Peacock Bass?? tramatizeud??
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Imagine yourself almost getting eaten by a larger animal and you escape. Youd be traumatized also lol. I bet it recovers soon enough. Just a bit spooked I bet. My fish always act wierd even with a change in the tank for a while. IME with cichla they are skiddish and fragile for a while when young.
I'm hoping he grows fast... i was told that Peacock bass grow at a much faster rate than most cichlids. Is this true.. ?? What should i feed him to get him to grow the fastest?
Hell yeah. Im thinking about feeding it to my dog 
It works wondersLike Shelby said yes, you will just have to give them some cichlid pellets in between to give them their other needs. Makes my festae's fat and happy
Like Shelby said yes, you will just have to give them some cichlid pellets in between to give them their other needs. Makes my festae's fat and happy
Awesome... thank u
Not to freak you out, but, same thing happened to my 2" indo Dat acted the same way yours was and was dead the next day. Hope he does alright
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I followed a similar route. I had 4 -1.5" orinos and 2 oscars about 2". The oscars will eat anything but they didnt eat the bass, In fact ultimately the smaller oscar pestered the bass to death. I never saw the dead fish but big pleco probably ate them.
So now I have some more oscars all about 3 to 4" and I have 2 kelberi about 5 1/2". So far Oscars not a problem. My live and learn - If you are raising small P. bass get them up to size (maybe 3 or 4") before adding other cichlids. I hear a lot about fear peacocks will eat small cichlids. I'm not sure this would happen until bass are closing in on 8" long.