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I have 3 flowerhorns in a tank, and they are really starting to get dominance. So basically what im saying is one has beaten the crap out of the other two. I am asking for ideas or oppinions what i should do.

either:

A) sell 2 flowerhorns and keep my 1 big one
B) sell 3 flowerhorns and buy a.... ??? (open for thoughts)

I have a 55gal tank

Any idea's for what i can replace them with that are still aggressive but won't kill eachother?? any help would be appreciated!!

http://www.bchambers.org/gallery/Fish/DSCF0001_001

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some pics of my fish and tank

Personally, I prefer an active community of fish over keeping a single specimen fish. Have you seen the "cookie cutter" suggestions? Maybe one of those combos would appeal, perhaps the mbuna tank?

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/cookie_cutter_55g.php

A 55 is only good for one flowerhorn. Thats basically why the other one beat up. Even in larger tanks, some people have trouble keeping two flowerhorns together.

If you like your big flowerhorn, keep it. Personally I'd keep the one that looks the best, since the small ones that look nice will probably cost more than the ones that look not so good.

Or you can sell all three and get other fish. there are lots of fish that would work, shelldwellers, leleupi, brichardi complex, comps, calvus, julies, cyprichromis leptosoma, acaras, jack dempsey, green terror, uaru, different fish from the cichlasoma genus, angels, discus, festivums, rams, apistos, etc.