About 4 days ago I got 2 pbass that are about 2 inches in length. They were in a tank with two oscars and two rosy reds.. The rosies are about a month old because nobody wants to eat them and they are getting very big after scavenging anything that falls into the tank. It looked like the rosies were giving the pbass a hard time (going after them, stealing food) despite the pbass being larger so I took out the rosies and gave them some live brine shrimp and after a little I noticed that the two bass were fighting each other. The fish are virtually the same size but it actually looked like the one that was a tiny bit smaller was the one doing the bullying. The other bass has a ripped back dorsal fin now and when I went to feed them a little to later to see what would happen the one bass stayed hidden inside of a log while the other one ate. Should I separate them? Will this pass? Could the oscar and pbass ever fight? Also one of the oscars started to look sick 2 days ago so I separated him and it looked like he suffered from an internal parasite and just died last night in the quarantine tank, any chance that my other fish could be/eventually suffer from this just from being around him? As far as live food is concerned, I have another tank set up with guppies in it and if I were to feed them fish flakes and leave them in there for a week would it be safe to feed them to my bass? Thanks!
Pbass fighting
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Fighting is normal with bass. Its suggested to get more than two because of constant fighting. Nothing to be really worried about its normal. As for gutloading and quarantining your feeders, use crushed sinking carnivore/massivore or crushed food sticks.
Agreed, groups of 3 or larger. I have 12 growouts. Fighting is non existant. Also try to get them off live foods. See if theyll take bloodworms or chopped up frozen foods like shrimp or tilapia.
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Thanks! I'm trying to get them off of live food, I've tried frozen brine shrimp, freeze dried krill, multiple brands of flake and pellets but they don't show much interest. I always offer the pellets, etc. before live food so hopefully eventually they'll take it. Just went to the store and got a new bass tonight and the one continues to bully the others... Hopefully they'll chill out soon I don't want them to hurt each other 
Thanks! I'm trying to get them off of live food, I've tried frozen brine shrimp, freeze dried krill, multiple brands of flake and pellets but they don't show much interest. I always offer the pellets, etc. before live food so hopefully eventually they'll take it. Just went to the store and got a new bass tonight and the one continues to bully the others... Hopefully they'll chill out soon I don't want them to hurt each other
Try bloodworms
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