What Are My Peacock Bass Doing?

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Steveo McNello

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Hello yet again MFK'ers!

My Peacocks do this 100 times a day. They take a quick run at each other, puff open their gills, and kind of lean sideways. They don't ever bite each other, it's just unusual behavior to me. Never seen anything like it.

I don't know if the picture helps, but has anybody ever witnessed this?

Thanks

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They spend most of the day within the same half of the tank as the other. They prefer any area in or left of the center amazon sword. Are territorial issues not necessarily opposing sides of the tank but just an invasion of personal space?

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Steveo McNello;4781708; said:
They spend most of the day within the same half of the tank as the other. They prefer any area in or left of the center amazon sword. Are territorial issues not necessarily opposing sides of the tank but just an invasion of personal space?
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Is that your tank? (I don't see an amazon sword?) it looks amazing, very clean and nice plants!

Only thing those stones are to round for my taste, that would be the one thing I would change :)
 
COol looking tank....why not add a cichla or two to help spread this aggression? This happens w/ cichla at all ages.
 
The amazon sword is the plant directly left of the FX5 intake. And 2 of those blue gray stones aren't round they're flat but I just stood them up lol. And thanks for the kind words I've worked very hard on this.

I'm working on getting either 2 temensis or 2 ocells. I know temensis get huge though.
 
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