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x8notes http:///forum/thread/386230/how-to-train-an-aggressive-fish#post_3391153
Hello! Just wanna ask here how to train or calm a aggressive fish? I got a Flower Horn fish back home but it is very much aggressive. And when I'm going to dip my hand in the tank, it bites me hard. And he can't be with another fish because he's going to eat it. Any suggestions please?
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Fish are not dogs and can't be trained. You may get a fish to accept food from your hand because they are pigs and want to eat more then be afraid of you. You can stop an aggrresive fish from fighting other fish SOMETIMES by rearranging the rocks. This works because fish are territorial and are fighting over turf, by changing the turf they re-establish new space giving the new fish a spot to call home.
Big fish eat little fish..period. This is perfectly natural and if we want a big mean fish, we either accept that as what we have, or get a great big mean fish that can hold his own with the big mean fish already in the tank. Cichlids are mean as they come.
Some fish are so protective of established territory that they bite even you. The small damsel fish will draw blood over territory when you stick your hand in the tank.
So your solution is to accept your big mean fish and wear gloves if you put your hand in the tank, or get rid of it. If you want other fish you will have to find something mean enough to live with it. I kept cichlids for a very short time, I hated their disposition, the fish are evil mean like the damsel.,,some folks like to keep sharks, so to each his own.
