Troublesome Sunfish

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gootswa

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Ok, so one day I buy a bag of feeder fish (minnows) from Petco and I find out that there is a baby sunfish in it. I do not want him to be snapping turtles food so obviously I put him in my 90 gal aquarium. At the time that I got him he was about a little less than a half of an inch (3 weeks ago) and now it is a little over 3 inches long. Now the problem starts when he thinks that he is the best fish, he will always harrass my SAE, who is in fact bigger than him, and will chase my gold and opaline gouramis. He will not go anywhere near my BGK or my rope fish, but my peacock eel seems to be very fightened of him even though he has done nothing. Now what do you suggest that I do? Should I just leave him in the 90 or put him in a seperate cage or give hime away?
Here is a picture of it
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If you can put him in a tank by himself do it, if not, then I would give him away.

Personally I would keep him because their colors are gorgeous when they get bigger, but their temperment is a little rough as you have already found out.
 
Yeah, i have a spare 10gal that i cure driftwood in, probably put him in there untill I can get him a bigger tank.
 
Find a way to keep him you won't regret it. My pumkinseed sunfish is one of my favorite fish. Very inteligent. Eats shrimp from my hand and follows my hand around the tank during water changes. They can be very aggressive though.
 
just separate it for now, they are much more aggressive than the current tankmates...they are similar to Central American cichlids in that regard
 
It appeared that you have green sunfish which is most aggressive sunfish but they are very beautiful when mature.
 
Thanks everyone, I am now setting up a tank for it.
 
Cichlaholics Anonymous;2476480; said:
just separate it for now, they are much more aggressive than the current tankmates...they are similar to Central American cichlids in that regard
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yep they are incredibly similar to oscars morphologically and personalitywise :)
 
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