This is Red and Piglet.... Red is the Red O and Piglet is the Tiger O. What the heck is going on with Red?? The two of them have been roughing housing it, Piglet chases Red then vice-versa. This morning this is what Red looks like.

Remember I am dealing with water issues....

PH 7.6
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrites 1.0 (almost 0.5)

I have cut back on feeding - which is when the chasing started. I am doing 30% water changes daily. The numbers have improved. Just want to make sure something else isn't causing problems.


Help!!

Brooksie

Looks like slight bulling to me. I wouldn't worry... Just a couple of missing scales. Maybe he rubbed up against some decor... Just keep an eye on it!

I'm a little nervous because I lost a tank full of "other" fish about 6 months ago to ICK.

Do I need to separate these guys already??? Or are they fighting due to the food?

The nitrite wouldn't cause this would it?

That looks very superficial to me so I shouldn't worry, if it happened overnight then it's probably just a little bit of rough behaviour between the two

it got stuck on something or its batle scars, should heal up just fine. keep us updated if the condition changes

So they have been going at it non-stop for over an hour. Piglet chasing Red who looks stressed out! I went and purchased one of those mesh tank dividers. Now they are both in their own half of the tank. Red still looks stressed but hopefully this will give him a break.

How long do I keep them apart??

Brooksie2009 wrote:


Wow... this is the longest I have seen a question go unanswered? Anyone?

Separation is usually up to the owners discretion, you know your fish best.. what most people do after dividing O's for a time is put the Aggressor into the side of the fish being bullied. I'm not sure about how long sorry, I've only got the 1 Oscar and hes fine with my Sev.

Maby a couple weeks? Someone will sort you out soon Brooksie

I know with BGH time out net 4-6 hours will be enough for the bullied fish to take over the territory of the aggressor.
But with a divider i really don't know.
We'll just bump the thread once more.

looks liks someine got a little rough time out in a net usually settles it down in bubbles case it made it worse (damn fish) and i had to make a seperator for them and put hin in a small half of the cage for about a week but now he is ding alot better and getiting allong with pearl now

Noddy wrote:


BGH ?? We talked about all these initials !!

Update.... Kept them apart all night. Up at 5:30 and they were on their own sides. By 8:45, somehow they were both on the same side. Separated them again, less than 5 mins later, they were on the same side again !!! Sneaky little guys. For the life of me I can't see how they did it! Regardless, the divider is out. They are both swimming around nicely. We'll see what happens.

Thanks again all you lovely fish helpers!

u may have to do it several times bafore theay get the idea o's are stubborn