RTBS bully!

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My Red Tailed Black Shark bullies just about anybody. Only successful tank mates are Killies, and I can only keep a pair to avoid agression among them, corys, and a pleco. He even chases Barbs! Got any more ideas for midwater tankmates? He is still very small and I can't move him into my larger tank until he gets bigger.
 
Get two more and they will focus on picking on each other.
 
i got a RTBS in my gachua and sp. assam snakehead tank. He's so damn cute.. Doesn' tbother no one. .Just hangs out and roams constantly
 
Honda12 said:
Get two more and they will focus on picking on each other.
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HAHA That would sovle one problem and create another.
 
Then you can just post about the other problem and then get that one solved.
 
Honda12 said:
Then you can just post about the other problem and then get that one solved.
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I think I may get cyber slapped if I do that.
 
:iagree: The main problem with RTBS's is their high aggressiveness and territoriality. A group works better if you have space. But I'd reccomend at least 5 specimens. My 0.02 ;)

Best regards.

Daniel.
 
Daniel Machado said:
:iagree: The main problem with RTBS's is their high aggressiveness and territoriality. A group works better if you have space. But I'd reccomend at least 5 specimens. My 0.02 ;)

Best regards.

Daniel.
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I thought that they are highly aggressive toward one another. When it gets bigger, I would like to add it to a tank where it will co-exist peacefully. Or get eaten, chomp! :ROFL:
 
I have been thinking since I got him, if he wants to chase other fish, then survival of the fittest. I just realized that that applies to him as well. He has terrorized pretty much any tankmates I keep with him including Barbs, Platys, Corys, and Killifish, so I figured, why not put him in the same situation? So I dropped it into my Largemouth Bass/ Tiger Oscar tank. It's doing well so far, there are lots of hiding places in there. But, if he doesn't look out, CHOMP. Survival of the fittest, live by it or die by it.
 
i had one a while ago and it was truly one of the meanest fish I had ever had. Great fish though.
 
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