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So wondering if anyone has ran into this. In my 125 I have a smaller hippo and recently added a powder brown that's about twice her size. Both have ample room to swim and the hippo of course was weary but that was about it. Plenty of grazing spots, rock spaces, etc so I figured they would leave each other alone right? This morning I come down to them within inches of each other so the first thing I do is sigh and prepare to isolate one to the sump to take back to the store in case they simply wont get along...until the brown swims off and the hippo follows...So now I am thinking the hippo is being aggressive right? No, they start grazing together and since then are inseparable, I have watched them for almost an hour with absolutely NONE of the tail swiping or aggressive movement, instead they are swimming and acting like chromis or something. I have literally never heard of this happening before and to be honest it is freaking me out a little given I expected a bit of territorial disputes till they settled, or to simply ignore the other, but no, they are behaving like wild schoolmates or something.
Update: So, the powder brown seems to not care, darting among rocks and grazing doing its tang thing, but the hippo is the one schooling or attempting to school rather. Still though, maybe because it is smaller? The hippo is about 2.5" total. And yes, I have had a mean scopas years back so I know how their fighting looks, this is literal schooling with the brown being the leader so to speak in that the hippo seems to follow its lead with neither ever coming into physical contact, even grazing when it does.
Update: So, the powder brown seems to not care, darting among rocks and grazing doing its tang thing, but the hippo is the one schooling or attempting to school rather. Still though, maybe because it is smaller? The hippo is about 2.5" total. And yes, I have had a mean scopas years back so I know how their fighting looks, this is literal schooling with the brown being the leader so to speak in that the hippo seems to follow its lead with neither ever coming into physical contact, even grazing when it does.