Dealing With An Over-dominant Fish?

[peteus2002]

Is there a good way to decrease his dominance?

He has half of the tank to himself, and as soon as one of the other Black Skirt, Neon or Emperor Tetras enter his zone he chases them out. He ignores the Otos though (in fact they chase him, on occasion).

So now I have half a tank full of fish, and the other half with one smug Emperor Tetra. Anything I can do?

 

[WILDER]

How many of each type of fish do you have?

 

[peteus2002]

4 Black Skirts, 8 Neons, 3 Emperors, 2 Otos.

 

[WILDER]

They need lots of plants.
Maybe try and build the shoal up abit more to see if that helps.

 

[umlaut31]

Move round all the plants and all the decorations inside the tank, do a water change... and then the fish will (or should) think they are in a new tank.. It will disrupt the emperor's area and give the others chance to find places to call their own too!

good luck