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I am a proud new owner or two tiger O's one is called Ozzy and nemo(five year old step son suggested it ) ozzy is a little bigger than nemo they have always got on untill a few days ago and now ozzy is bullying nemo at the moment i have go them separated, i dont know if ozzy is telling nemo who is boss please i would like some suggestions as i am worried that i will have to keep them apart for good

Well, Oscars can be quite aggressive.
Espescially if you end up with 2 males.
It really depends on a lot of things.
Is the tank big enough? 2 Adult Oscars
will need a tank of 125 Gallons to be happy
together- they grow to be very very big (14-16+ inches)
Also, Oscars grow very very Fast- wont take much more
than a year for them to reach near to adult size.
Is there things in the tank that break up the line
of sight - rocks, driftwood, plants, decor?
Did you introduce them to the tank at the same
time? If so, they may be just squabbling over
territory, and until they work out a heirarchy,
the squabbling may continue. Try to rearrange
some objects to change the territories. This may help.


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i got them together i havent got much things in the tank as there only babies and waiting on there tank being made as it is only a small tank there in at the moment i was going to get some plants not sure if to get real one's or fake ones as someone said they will distroy the real one's so not made my mind up yet

Put some stuff, plants, floaty bathtub toys, marbles, just something for the Oscars to mess with. That might cure the problem if the big one is bored and looking for something to do.

The other problem could be not enough room. If you can, get them some more.

Mike

maybe they feel they dont have enough room, they make those tank dividers(if that isn't waht u are useing now) i would keep them seperated like that untill u get a bigger tank.

Wow thankyou all for your advise yes i am getting a bigger tank just waiting for it to be made as when i got the O's i didnt know what they were the woman that sold me them didn't say i couldnt put them in my other tank so i wansn't prepared for this lol but thankyou all again and i will go and get some plant's etc today

Get live plants. My two tiger O's love to rip it out and chase it around. They get cranky if they can't... so fake plants wont work. Try the bigger tank and re-arranging your tank, but if those don’t work, you’re better off trading one of the fish.

With toys, be careful of the size and colours on them. You can easily scare your O's with the wrong toy, they're big bullies until something slightly bigger or tougher looking comes along. I got my O’s a toy dinosaur when they where about 10”s each. It freaked them out, and they wouldn’t go near that end of the tank. Plastic crabs and diver – they love to pick them up, and throw them at each other