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cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
hi,i just bought an electric blue cichlid today.soon after he was placed in his new home my tiger oscar started to chase him!!what can i do to stop this?if it keeps up i cant see my cichlid living for very long...

theres a pic of him
 
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Re:cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
Unfortunately, this is a risk you take when you mix different types of fish. Cichlids can be particularly difficult. If he keeps getting a hard time, you may have to find a new home for him
 
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Re:cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
Two questions:

A) How big is you tank?
How big are your fish?

I keep CA cichlids with my oscar, in fact, i just bought a new one yesterday(jack dempsey cichlid). Keeping Africans with oscars can be risky, however. Some Africans grow large enough to even bully oscars, in some cases, to death(no, an electric blue is not one of them).
 
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Re:cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
my tank is 20 gallons.im getting a much larger tank around december for my oscars the cichlid i just got is 4'',redtail shark is about 2'',pleco is about 2 1/2'',my tiger oscar is about 4 1/2''(hes growing bigger and bigger by the day,its unreal)and my new albino oscar is only 2''!my tiger oscar seems to be chasing the albino oscar and the cichlid quite alot but when it comes to feeding time somehow the albino oscar comes out on top do you have any pics of your fish?
 
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Re:cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
Yeah, an electric blue cichlid requires a minimum of 50 gallons, and can reach 7'' if you don't know that already. I'll try and upload some pics of my fish, haven't had to do that yet, so it might take a while for me to figure it out
 
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Re:cichlid with oscar 1 Year, 1 Month ago  
thanks for the advice my cichlid died last night i think my big tiger oscar annoyed it to death!nyway i uploaded a few pics of my tank and fish,check em' out n let me know what you think
 
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