people think cause a large school piranaha will eat a cow that they are aggresive but they arnt they just have very very high survival instint a red devil vs 2 piranaha the red devil would win
who,s the meanest
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ounce for ounce, P. Demasoni is one of the meanest little cichlids there is. I can imagine what it would be like if it grew to Dovii size
RDs are nippy instigators so I would have to say they are always looking to pick a fight.
Convicts are small so they try to bully, bite and chase everybody and ounce for ounce they are high up on the list.
Buttikofferi are capable of dominating and destroying anybody and everybody in the tank that is within the size of it and smaller.
Jags are strong and they are hunters but I don't think they are really aggressive unless they are spawning (they don't have to be since everyone pretty much gets out of their way because they look big and mean). From what I understand Dovii is pretty much the same . I hear they are nocturnal hunters , very smart , and will not attack anything they don't feel they can take. Once they have caught up in size they will wait for the moment and attack, ripping the stomach open first and then finishing the rest.
Green terrors - I find them pretty mellow.
Any cichlid kept in a tank that is too small, crowded, in the company of too many other terratorial cichlids , without enough structur and hiding spots, poor waterconditions or spawning will usually act a lot more aggressive. Cichlids are also very individualistic.
Convicts are small so they try to bully, bite and chase everybody and ounce for ounce they are high up on the list.
Buttikofferi are capable of dominating and destroying anybody and everybody in the tank that is within the size of it and smaller.
Jags are strong and they are hunters but I don't think they are really aggressive unless they are spawning (they don't have to be since everyone pretty much gets out of their way because they look big and mean). From what I understand Dovii is pretty much the same . I hear they are nocturnal hunters , very smart , and will not attack anything they don't feel they can take. Once they have caught up in size they will wait for the moment and attack, ripping the stomach open first and then finishing the rest.
Green terrors - I find them pretty mellow.
Any cichlid kept in a tank that is too small, crowded, in the company of too many other terratorial cichlids , without enough structur and hiding spots, poor waterconditions or spawning will usually act a lot more aggressive. Cichlids are also very individualistic.
I've had pirahnas , they are very skittish unless they are in a pack and in a large tank. Quite dissapointing, definitly not anywere near the top of aggressive/interactive fish.
you guys are really missing the point... yes dovii/jags/umbee/RD/midas/etc are agressive but it all boils down to individual persoonality. i had docile RDs before and ******* as RDs too. about your KILL stories on piranhas you guys missed the fact that piranhas take a very long time to get used to their surround unlike cichlids. piranhas i had before took about 2 weeks to get used to the tank unlike a RD that took half a day. so untilmatily if you threw in piranhas into a tank that is esablished by a huge cichlid then the cichlid would win. i threw in a large RD because no1 wanted not even my lfs and my piranhas that i had shredded it like no 2m. i even fed the piranhas before i threw in the RD. so yeah.... your arguments are not that vaild. also, what kind of piranhas did you guys throw in? red bellies? the wussiest piranhas of all. if you threw in a rhom or caribe,piryia,ternizti,spilo you would definitly see sme carnage. those fish dont take crap from anyone, not even their own kind.
but i do give credit to cichlids. they have personality unlike the dumb muscle boound piranhas. did i mention color too? haha i think i like piranhas more because dealt with cichlids for too long and they got boring for me. they dont do the same damage as piranhas. cichlids suck in their food while piranhas take chunks out. thanks i rambled way too long.
-eric
but i do give credit to cichlids. they have personality unlike the dumb muscle boound piranhas. did i mention color too? haha i think i like piranhas more because dealt with cichlids for too long and they got boring for me. they dont do the same damage as piranhas. cichlids suck in their food while piranhas take chunks out. thanks i rambled way too long.
-eric
wut about the pike cichlid i have 6 jd and a pike all around the same size about 5 inches the jd dont even try to go near the pike he doesn't take ne thing from ne one the jd's stay at the opposite side of the tank from the pike and when i feed them feeder's the pike eat's almost all of them within minutes
Here is my 3 most aggressive.
1. P. dovii (Wolf Cichlid)
2.C. umbriferum (Blue Speckled)
3.H. fasciatus (Fire Throat Jewel)
1. P. dovii (Wolf Cichlid)
2.C. umbriferum (Blue Speckled)
3.H. fasciatus (Fire Throat Jewel)
Back to the whole piranha debate. This was said before but I think it should be repeated again. There's a big difference between being piscivorous and being aggressive. If a school of piranha ate a devil it wasn't because they're jerks it's because they're hungry. And the only African that I can think of that'd be bright red and aggressive would be zebras. I'm pretty sure it'd be Malawian since usually rarer Africans, such as Tangs and Victorians, have a Latin name posted with them. Sounds like a Maylandia to me.
My Jag use to be savages when Ide put large goldfish in there and they didnt fit in her mouth she just keep attacking them tearing the belly open eating all the intestines and all that good stuff the eat the tail end then eat the head the only thing he would leave is this small whitish grey sac of like gas or air which I believe helps the fish keep its balance. Not like it does at her size now she would just ingulf 4-5goldfish one after another. I think it was cool seeing two heads and three tails sticking from her mouth but I wont be doing that anytime soon since she got sick with the last batch about 3-4months ago.
