Right, I've had my O for almost 4 years now! He's around 12-14" and lives in a 450 Litre alone (2 x FX5 for filtration)!! Lately, his aggression has been getting way out of control for some reason?! I'm not sure what it is??
He's never really liked the light being on in the aquarium so I never bothered with it unless I had company over or something?! I wanted to ease him back in a couple of weeks back but he didn't like it much ha?! I was turning the light on for an hour or so in the evening, not much so he wasn't getting too stressed? Anyway's he's always been an aggressive fish. He attacks the glass and flares his gills when people get close to the tank! He always gives the side on angle to show his size!!
But the other week, he jumped up and broke one of my T5 fluorescent tubes and cut himself in the process (the light wasn't on thank-fully). Wasn't a major cut, healed in 4-5 days!! Stopped with light going on after that incident?!
A few days later he freaked in the tank and took a major chunk out of his head?! Think he jumped up and cut himself on the brace bar that goes across the top of the tank for reinforcement (I'm guessing that's what he did?)! I performed a 50-60% W/C the day after and the wound is seemingly getting better!! It's fierce annoying seeing your fish get injured like this though?! I don't know what the problem is but I'm just guessing that this is just normal aggressive territorial behaviour for an adult O, or is it?????
Would adding "Dither" fish like Silver Dollars or Tinfoil Barbs reduce this aggression or would he manage to catch and kill these fish?! I was also thinking of adding floating Elodea to help dim the light in the tank if I was to go back using the light?!
What do use think, all opinions are welcome?! I got to do something! Cant let him keep hurting himself like this?!
Thanks, Stephen.
He's never really liked the light being on in the aquarium so I never bothered with it unless I had company over or something?! I wanted to ease him back in a couple of weeks back but he didn't like it much ha?! I was turning the light on for an hour or so in the evening, not much so he wasn't getting too stressed? Anyway's he's always been an aggressive fish. He attacks the glass and flares his gills when people get close to the tank! He always gives the side on angle to show his size!!
But the other week, he jumped up and broke one of my T5 fluorescent tubes and cut himself in the process (the light wasn't on thank-fully). Wasn't a major cut, healed in 4-5 days!! Stopped with light going on after that incident?!
A few days later he freaked in the tank and took a major chunk out of his head?! Think he jumped up and cut himself on the brace bar that goes across the top of the tank for reinforcement (I'm guessing that's what he did?)! I performed a 50-60% W/C the day after and the wound is seemingly getting better!! It's fierce annoying seeing your fish get injured like this though?! I don't know what the problem is but I'm just guessing that this is just normal aggressive territorial behaviour for an adult O, or is it?????
Would adding "Dither" fish like Silver Dollars or Tinfoil Barbs reduce this aggression or would he manage to catch and kill these fish?! I was also thinking of adding floating Elodea to help dim the light in the tank if I was to go back using the light?!
What do use think, all opinions are welcome?! I got to do something! Cant let him keep hurting himself like this?!
Thanks, Stephen.
