Aggressive fat fish at dinner time

robotuna wrote:
Hey, All,

I have a 20 gal tank with 6 lepord danios and a bristle nose plico in
it. One of the danios is bigger and is shaped a little different than
the others. It almost looks like he has something of a gut. I call him
Fat Albert because of this.

Fat Albert has a tendancy to chase all the other fish around, but come
meal time he seems to just get mean. He never nips, but if any fish
gets by any food that he can see he chases them away. It seems like
everyone is eating enough, but Fat Albert always seems to get too much.
Is this a problem? Is there anything I can do to make sure he isn't
stressing the other fish out? Thank you for the help.

Travis

If everyone is eating enough it's fine. Danios are quick and hungry
danios are even quicker so I'm not surprised they're all getting their
share of food. It's good that you have 6 danios. That way Fat Albert's
aggression is spread across the other 5 and no single fish will be a target.

To be sure he isn't stressing the others, just watch them. If the rest
of the danios are active and interacting with each other, their fins are
undamaged and not clamped (held abnormally close to the body), their
color is good and not faded, and they're not getting thin or abnormally
fat, they are not stressed.

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