When Do You Take Out The Fish?

[netpox]

I have a male Kenyi..he's just a little bigger than rest of the cichlids in my tank. I have bunch of different ones: bumblebee, jewel, electric yellow and red zebra. He seems to rule the tank. I dont see him biting other fish but he's chasing all of them. Is that going to stress out my other fish and kill them? Should i take him out?

 

[M.R Otter]

Yes,all the fishes that are bieng chased are soon going to be stressed,the chaser is also going to get stressed too,there are two things you can do:

(1):move the kenyi to an another small tank for an hour then return him back to the old one that he was chasing other fishes in it.

(2):Buy a new big tank for him to live in.

If I were you I will go with the first choice.

 

[dthoffsett]

As I said in your other post, I'd suggest either getting him some girls or removing him. And if you want to avoid an aggressive setup you'll want to remove the auratus as well.

Either way you need to add some more mbuna, they do better in groups of 4 or more (1m/3+f) and to avoid aggression problems (likely part of what you are seeing) mbuna tanks are typically overstocked. In a large group the chaser will quickly lose the one he's chasing in the "crowd", this avoids any one fish getting picked on too much.