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Old April 29th, 2009  
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A male thing...

The pics I post are from moments after I introduced a female sub-adult Oscar "Flor" (sexed by the vet, named by my wife) to the tank of my widowed male Tiger Oscar "Luna".

This tank keeps several species, among them, I keep six Kenyi. Two of the male Kenyi ("Cheech" and "Chong") are dominant and hold their own territory, which both seem to respect (except when courting one of the female Kenyi).

The male Tiger Oscar "Luna" has historically ignored this particular male Kenyi ("Cheech": territory towards middle of the tank), who bullies around regardless of the other fish species especially if bigger than him in size (e.g. Heros Severums -relocated, Firemouths, Convicts, Angelfish, Silver Dollars).

Luna's ignoring behavior doesn't happen with the other male Kenyi ("Chong": territory towards left side of the tank) who used to be -believe it or not- somewhat close to the previous female Tiger Oscar "Moon" (who passed away last month); "Chong" -then subdominant Kenyi male- swam next to the female Oscar during their sub-adult time -including when "Luna" was pretending her- and somehow, since then, gets on his nerves easily.

Enough of history, let's see the images:

These three pics show Luna showing off in front of Flor as "Cheech" went bullying at her. No one got harmed but these two males did some lip-locking (never observed before this time).
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Pepe
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Old April 29th, 2009  
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its as if the little one is saying...."WHO'S YOUR DADDY!!?"
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Old April 30th, 2009  
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That 1 Oscar is thinking "BREAKFAST" (in the lip lock with the little orange one). Glad you got your Oscar a buddy.
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Old April 30th, 2009  
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Fantastic pics - thanks for sharing with us.
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Old May 2nd, 2009  
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Cool Pics

-Matt
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Old May 3rd, 2009  
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just revisiting your thread...couldnt help but notice that you have a few tiger barbs in there aswell...

i hope you realize that one fine day they wont be there anymore..! the oscars would have a great dine out!
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Old May 3rd, 2009  
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just revisiting your thread...couldnt help but notice that you have a few tiger barbs in there aswell...

i hope you realize that one fine day they wont be there anymore..! the oscars would have a great dine out!
For whatever reason my Tiger Oscar male doesn't go after small fish in the tank. Fry of Kenyi and Convicts grow safely into sub-adults there -although I remove them as juveniles when they reach one inch.

Maybe being heavily planted with more than enough hiding places that work as territorial landmarks, as well my practice of not feeding my Oscars with feeder fish (out of health concerns and their usually low nutritional value) helped shaping things this way but I'm not sure.

The female Oscar is new in the tank so I am keeping an eye on her but so far everyone's OK.

Pepe
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Old May 4th, 2009  
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Cool!

Anymore Pics?

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Old May 9th, 2009  
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