Aggression with Rainbow Sharks...

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I recently added three 3" Rainbow Sharks to my 125G along with many other bottom dwellers, and although the catfish and botias seem to be doing ok, i'm not so sure about the loaches.

There are plenty of hiding area - caves, stumps, driftwood, plants and sand. Will be adding some clay pots and making some more caves out of slate soon.

First, i've heard you can only keep one of these in a tank, because they will be aggressive towards each other or others in the same family. Then i've heard keeping 3 or more will keep it safe.

I put 2 dojo loaches in there not too long ago, and saw them always staying on the surface, resting on filter tubes, heater, etc. Do you think they are being harassed too much?

I also put a very small dinosaur bichir in their and also noticed the same thing... for the first week, it was resting on the surface alot, sometimes almost seeming lifeless, with nipped fins, but now seems to be doing better.

The dojos have been MIA for a good week now!

Any suggestions, experience, advice??

Thanks much!

My Redtail shark chased one of my 5" OB Peacocks for atleast 2 minutes strait and that OB never messed with him again.

Well, problem solved... got rid of all rainbow sharks today... traded them in to a specialty LFS for credit.

Now have to prep some tanks and see what kind of goodies I can take home from this place

Well, I'm down to one. The others showed up with damaged eyes - but I never could catch them in the planted 55G. They were gone the next day.

So I just have the one now. Who seems very happy now.

Hope you find something cool!