Walked Into a Gruesome Sight,

[WOLF2013]

Went to feed my fish some krill and pellets. Turned on the aquarium light and I saw my baby azul x xingu hybrid peacock bass mortally wounded with half his body bitten off.
I surmise that my larger peacock bass (1 temensis and 1 orino meta) where fin nipping the smaller pbass. He was hanging out near the gold wolf fish artifical floating plant. The gold wolf fish must have sensed the weakend state and attacked. I have found that predatory characins like piranhas, wolf fish, tiger fish, barracuda generally only attack fish they think they can eat or are weakended and close to death.
The Peacock Bass was way to big for the gold wolf fish to eat. So it was a stupid move by the gold wolf fish although I'm sure he got a little tiny bit of meat.
He does not bother any of the other fish which is why I am baffled why he attacked this peacock bass.
If it was to be any wolf fish I would have imagined my black wolf fish (Hoplias) doing it not the gold wolf fish.

 

[xenacanth9]

 

[WOLF2013]

I know I was so sad.
It was those damn larger peacock bass that stressed that poor little guy out. They are well fed so no reason to bully the little guy

 

[tlindsey]

I know I was so sad.
It was those damn larger peacock bass that stressed that poor little guy out. They are well fed so no reason to bully the little guy

Possibly the small PBass started swimming erratic. Wolfish and Piranha do that in the wild also agree about the attacking of the weak and dying fish.

 

[WOLF2013]

Possibly the small PBass started swimming erratic. Wolfish and Piranha do that in the wild also agree about the attacking of the weak and dying fish.

I think so. I didn't really notice I just turned the light on and saw the peacock bass in the gold wolf's mouth and the gold wolf had bitten down so hard that meat was falling and the vulture catfish got a quick meal. Felt so bad... I wanted to film a video for my YouTube but I think it would have been way too controversial and I would probably get a warning since people get so butt hurt quickly these days.