Why are my indo dats inactive?

[DOTARUINEDMYLIFE]

I recently bought 3 indo's and sold one, so now I have 2. Even when I had three, they were really inactive. Very territorial and wouldn't let another invade their space. this isn't what I had in mind when i saw pictures of groups of indo dats in tank actively roaming around.

They are 4" dats in a 75g tank, so tank space isn't an issue for another 3-4 years.

My water parameters are great, if you wanna see details here they are.
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20

What could be the possible reasons they are not as active as they should be?

 

[ewurm]

Tank mates?

 

[HiImSean]

Tank mates?

my IT interacts with my severums all day

 

[TCZeli]

My small IT's are pretty inactive also. Dats do hide alot.

Are they stable?

also what is your PH lvl?

 

[DOTARUINEDMYLIFE]

Tank mates?

two 4" indo dats
one 4" flagtail prochilodus
two 6" delhezi bichirs
one 4" senegal bichir.

The ph the last time i checked, was 7.6?

Their stability goes on and off, but I have one that becomes stable more often then the other, and when he does, its fu_ckin beautiful!

 

[davo]

They can be quite shy when they are younger... how long have you had them?

 

[DOTARUINEDMYLIFE]

That might explain their inactive hiding behavior. I've had them for about maybe 2 weeks now.

 

[T1KARMANN]

shouldnt have sold the 3rd one 2 tigers the same size will fight alday long

and if you have lots of hideing places they will use them

 

[DiXoN]

either lose one of them or get some more imo, i had 2 2'' indos all by themselves in a 106gal tank and they hated each other and only stayed in one place all the time on opposite corners of the tank.
now with 1 indo and loads other fish it swims all over.
now in my 180 i only have 2 datnoids in it and they are not too active since i removed the other 2.