Severum agression

[golcondorus]

i already kinda posted this but i want opinions on agression now, i got a green severum last night and my supposedly female severus "adapto" or whatever its called beat him up, he'll be fine but i had to remove her and put her in my QT tank, im not sure how to proceed, what do you guys think, also, im posting both pics, are they both male? I dont know, any help would be appreciated because she is trying to KILL him

 

[eatyoualive]

omg i wanna severum tank so bad they are amazing

 

[golcondorus]

bump

 

[golcondorus]

BUMP

 

[Windsorguy77]

Is your fish that is doing the bullying much bigger than the other? Was there a lot of damage inflicted? I have two Severums about 4-4.5". The Red shoulder Severum is constantly on the green occasionally locking up with each other. I find creating as much partition as possible with drift wood and plants keeps the aggression to a minimum. Kinda keeping them in there own 'corners'. Really nice pics by the way.

 

[irishfan]

Awesome looking sev..I have a large male, he runs the 90, is the only cichlid in there with a bunch of tetras, silver dollars, plecs, catfish, etc. To any of them he is he nicest guy out there..hes great when hes number 1. I got him he was an inch and a half, killed a few larger fish and since then has been great. Seems that more visual breakups are better, hiding places, but also so that they can swim and not necessarily see each other all the time.

 

[ryansmith83]

I recently got an H. severus 'Atabapo' and the first thing I noticed is that it was way more aggressive than my other types of severums. It's much more active and belligerent. It shoves around any fish that is similarly shaped, especially my chocolate cichlid.

Because it was already a current resident of your tank and established before the new fish came home, that makes it even worse. A lot of times when you add new cichlids, existing cichlids will try to put them in their place and let them know who's boss.

Let your new severum heal up and settle into the tank. In a few weeks when he looks good and is eating well, rearrange some things in the tank and move the H. severus back. See if that helps to calm the H. severus down a bit. It worked for me with my severums.