oscar weird behaviour

[ctenopoma]

my tiger oscar usually hates and attacks my bichir on sight but since I added a few peices of lava rock my O seems to try to push my bichir towards the rocks and somtimes rubs it's body alongside my bichir
does anyone know why this might be happening?

 

[haynchinook334]

your O is just showing your other tank mates who's the boss.....take all fish out and rearange the decore.

 

[ctenopoma]

your O is just showing your other tank mates who's the boss.....take all fish out and rearange the decore.

that makes sense I keep try to attach java fern babies to driftwood and he/she rips them out and puts them back where they used to be so i'm not sure if it my O would sulk because it seems to like the way things are lol

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

I wouldn't take out all the fish though, seems like a lot of stress

 

[haynchinook334]

I wouldn't take out all the fish though, seems like a lot of stress

aggreed, but if he added the bichir to the tank after the oscar established his territory then that fish will get picked on.

 

[gomezladdams]

Oscar is telling the bichir:go hide in the rocks,if I dont see you I wont have to kill you

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

you could still move stuff around, but I'd do it with the fish still in the tank

 

[BTD930]

I wouldn't take out all the fish though, seems like a lot of stress

ya i agree with that dont take them all out

 

[pcfriedrich]

Oscar is telling the bichir:go hide in the rocks,if I dont see you I wont have to kill you

wouldn't doubt it. I'd take the O out, rearrange things, and replace the O after the birchir has established himself, they may never get along though. I don't keep any plants with my O anymore; they just always ended up floating on the surface.

 

[GregRM]

Hilarious.

I am constantly putting leaves back on my fake plants only to have the plant dismantled within a few days.

O's are so funny.