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Hello,
I had written in before about the love affair going on between my Oscar and my Feather Fin Catfish. They were always staying close to one another and seemed to be getting along very well. They actually seemed to be enjoying each other’s gentle glides over one another.
After the Oscar was injured we separated them for about three week while she healed. We reunited them last week and I think she is a little upset with the Catfish who is no longer giving her any attention.
This is where it gets funny. The Catfish has a log he likes to hide in. First she blocked the opening with the plastic plants that are in the tank. All 6 plants had been moved and placed like a barricade around the log. Then she started moving the shells and rocks to block the entrances. As if this was not enough, she started scooping up the rocks and dropping them on his head.
She has made that end of the tank look like a ski slope.
He can still get out and basically ignores her. He moved to the other log and she is doing the same thing at the other end of the tank. She has not tried to attack the Catfish by biting him.
Should I be worried about this or has any one else seen such behavior?

I wouldn't fret. The Oscar is just being an Oscar. If it hasn't been aggressive in the past it probably won't attack the catfish. It may be moving stuff out of boredom now that the cat won't play.

Gotta love Oscars, Mike

you know that sounds just like kids...thanks for the laugh

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

The oscar trying to be friendly, the catfish just a grumpy old man.You can try another oscar, one oscar is a very lonely oscar. Ahh, oscars are like box of chocolate', you never know what you gonna get.

...i wouldnt worry my feather fin rules my chiclid tank and he is with a red devil ,jagaur etc only thing he loses too in my decorus

sorry.. nothing constructive i can add to all this, but thanks for sharing the story! i thought it was adorable. =} makes me think oscar's aren't so bad after all!

The pottery that growls!