Species and some very important info please

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KingofAliens

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Jun 9, 2014
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Hi,
My name is Karan and I'm from Suriname.
I bought 2 small peacock bass localy.
The are doing good in my grow out tank.
I bought them at 2-3 inch now the at 4-6 inch after probably 3 months.
I feed them hikari food stick a total of 15-20 each!!!!
My problem is that one of them is lil bit smaller than the other one.
The bigger one pushes/hits the smalles one often.
I tried to separate them by splitting the tank with mesh.
After 2 months I removed the mesh and the bigger one is still hitting/pushing the smaller one.
What to do???
Can anyone please give me an solution what to do??
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Try some silver dollars. Sounds like they need some dither fish.

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"Dither fish" refers to any sort of fast-moving (and typically schooling) fish that is added to the tank to reduce aggression between territorial or mean fish. Basically by providing some fast-moving targets, your pbass will hopefully focus more on them than on each other. Silver dollars or tinfoil barbs are a good suggestion because they are too big to be eaten, they are fast, and they are tough. Your bass could probably chase them all day without causing any harm!

It's very common to use dither fish with cichlid community tanks. Common types include barbs, tetras, rainbowfish, etc...
 
Get another bass. They dont to good in pairs

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Think they are orinos due to the diffrent spangling at the last 1 and 2 pics also because you described their slow growth of 2-3 inches to 4-6 inches in 3 months orinos grow slow about half an inch to an inch a month so your conditions are ideal.
 
Can you please post a few more pics? :D
Brokopondo
 
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