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Hello Everyone.
Hopefully there will be people to pass on their ideas out this. Noticed the forums gone a bit quite recently
Any who, as you know i have 2 tiger oscar one at 9 inches and the other at 8, nice healthy fish kept in water with ammonia - 0 nitrite - 0 and nitrates - 15, tank is 150gal 48x24x30(h).
So usually when they are aggressive to each other they would violently shake their tails up and down vertically is the other got to close at the wrong time to warn them off, right?
Well last night i came home from work watching them digging in the sand and attacking a piece of wood, which i thought ok usually behaviour and that’s fine. I watched for another 25 mins and it developed into the following.
1) Digging next to and bulling my Lepored Cactus Pleco L114 at 9 inches, which of course he was trying to defend them off, let’s say the pleco is fine (thank god, most expensive fish i have) but the spikes of his sides and tail didn’t turn out in the oscars favour.
2) The oscars instead of shaking their tails vertically and rapidly at each other, they were twitching their head horizontally at each other, by twitching I mean one strong twitch at a time, also they weren’t even lip locking?
Can anyone explain this type of behaviour or come up with suggestions/ theories? Will be intresting to see what you come up with.
Thanks
Stu
Hopefully there will be people to pass on their ideas out this. Noticed the forums gone a bit quite recently
Any who, as you know i have 2 tiger oscar one at 9 inches and the other at 8, nice healthy fish kept in water with ammonia - 0 nitrite - 0 and nitrates - 15, tank is 150gal 48x24x30(h).
So usually when they are aggressive to each other they would violently shake their tails up and down vertically is the other got to close at the wrong time to warn them off, right?
Well last night i came home from work watching them digging in the sand and attacking a piece of wood, which i thought ok usually behaviour and that’s fine. I watched for another 25 mins and it developed into the following.
1) Digging next to and bulling my Lepored Cactus Pleco L114 at 9 inches, which of course he was trying to defend them off, let’s say the pleco is fine (thank god, most expensive fish i have) but the spikes of his sides and tail didn’t turn out in the oscars favour.
2) The oscars instead of shaking their tails vertically and rapidly at each other, they were twitching their head horizontally at each other, by twitching I mean one strong twitch at a time, also they weren’t even lip locking?
Can anyone explain this type of behaviour or come up with suggestions/ theories? Will be intresting to see what you come up with.
Thanks
Stu