Angelfish Biting Everything

[Jallen]

Is there any way I can make them less aggressive?
Temp is 27C, water stats are fine, angels are only 2 inches long, 3 inches tall at the moment.
They keep biting my plants, they killed 3 of the guppies which were in there with them, they started biting the BN pleco I put in there with them until it got away and hid, and today I put in 2 dwarf gouramis and they are biting them too (cardinal tetras seem to be way too quick for them, and they don't seem to even be interested for some reason - shorter fins?)

If there isn't any way of stopping this I'm tempted to take them back to the shop, either that or put a tiger oscar in there, that will show the buggers.
Is there any way of stopping it?

Oh yeah, and I have:
6 kuhli loaches
1 flower shrimp
2 angel fish
2 dwarf gouramis
12 cardinal tetras
1 bristlenose pleco
And it still looks pretty sparse (the pleco remains out of sight, the kuhli's are quick and are often visible, but are tiny and must have barely any biological load, the shrimp has practically no bio load and is seldom seen). Would I do ok to add anything else? I was thinking maybe a bolivian ram, maybe some bloodfin tetras (or some other kind of tetra)

 

[drobbyb]

Angelfish are cichlids. They are acting accordingly. Really there isn't a whole lot you can do.

 

[Jallen]

I've read that they are intelligent, so every time they do it i plunge the net in the water near them, which seems to scare them. If they really are intelligent, they will learn from this and stop biting fish.

It's worth a try.

 

[donna 123]

how bigs the tank?
i had angel fish for about a week but got fed up of it attacking smaller fish and gave it away.
i dont think you can actualy teach them its not good to bite other fish, maybe its the longish fins they like and think its food.

 

[Cdarmychi]

juat a thought, but how long have you had them? mine are really peacefull......until they decide to spawn!
Are they biting everything that comes near a corner or hideyhole? Or just everything no matter where it is?
The best I can suggest is add in lots more line of sight breakers.

 

[Jallen]

juat a thought, but how long have you had them? mine are really peacefull......until they decide to spawn!
Are they biting everything that comes near a corner or hideyhole? Or just everything no matter where it is?
The best I can suggest is add in lots more line of sight breakers.

I actually found it was only one of them doing it. The other one is quite peaceful. However the aggressive one will attack anything no matter where it is, completely randomly. So I put it in with the tiger barbs. If they rip him apart, that's fine by me, he would gladly do it to any other fish.