Is it true that a 10-inch flowerhorn can take down 3 full grown oscars?

Question

My friend has a tank divider, he said although flowerhorn is smaller, broke the tank divider and took down 3 oscars whose size twice the flowerhorn at once. Is flowerhorn that strong?

Answer 1

Flowerhorn can take down 3 full grown oscars when it reaches 10 inches, but chance increases when it is at 12 inches. Some flowerhorn owners have taken good care of their flowerhorn, thus, they grew up to 16 inches, but is rare. They reason flowerhorn can take 3 oscars down at once is because oscars are not aggressive, but big in size.

Answer 2

they can get up to 16 inches and they're territorial (like pure cichlids) so if one is breeding, it will likely be abusive to others in the tank who come into it's area. As far as "taking out 3 full grown oscars", this isn't a martial arts movie, so it's not likely he'll be walking down an alley and get jumped by 3 mean tattooed oscars. As with any man hybridized fish, you don't really know what any one's ancestry is (and there's so much debate as to what the real fish are behind the flowerhorn) so who knows how the one you get will react. Because it's a fish mostly popular (and bred) in asia, there's very little control involved in how they're bred, or under what conditions, or even what the parents were! They're known to breed with a half a dozen fish (because that's where they came from) so who knows what'll happen if you add em to your tank. Never mind taking out an oscar, one could mate with it!

Answer 3

Anything is possible. Oscars are not the most aggressive fish in the waters. They're actually a bit shy when placed in environments where they aren't the biggest fish. They are more aggressive with each other when kept in an environment to small for them than towards other fish. My Convict at 6 inches pushes my 15 inch Oscar around all the time.

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