convict are no where near the top they are way down there with oscars well maybe not that FAR down they are about as far down as JD
I had a 8 inch jd in 150 gallon with 6 jewels i sold him and he had chunks missing out of his head from bites he wasnt able to even hold his own from some nasty 4inch jewels in a huge tank where the smaller fish could mob him i guess
convicts are the same males i had to rescue and just gave away for free i was told to use them as dithers to even out aggression in my five star tanks BIG MISTAKE after a day they looked horrible i seperated them put them with baby cichlids and cleaned them and gave them away FREE they cannot handle aggressive fish the way some cichlids can in large tanks, texas are hit or miss red devils even at small sizes are usually still tougher than a convict lol which is funny pike cichlids al still tough, salvani are wimps when it comes to real tough fish, jewels last if they have a lot of room to fight they fight like mbuna with a lot of speed. One five star decimated a pair of convicts and their eggs. People think they are bad ass re the same people who think oscars are i have been keeping them for 15 years lol THey are not as wimpy as a firemouth or oscar but still they cant compete with the most aggressive out there.
