Kevin, if you have an afterthought a couple minutes after making a post just use the edit button to add on rather than make a new post please
Pound for Pound toughest fish?
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Gee wiz stotty, that reminds me, it's ten to twelve - I better tuck myself into bed and ask mommy if I can stay up till 5 tomorrow for Oscar - Mayorga 
I look forward to the dovii video tomorrow with the dovii ripping a similar sized fish in half
I look forward to the dovii video tomorrow with the dovii ripping a similar sized fish in half
Once again to think a Cichlid (any cichlid), has a chance against a flat out carnivore like a Snakehead is foolsih.....
Last point, Snakeheads are illegal in the states, is there even a concern about a cichlid doing any damage? By the way look at my avatar, courtesy of a Snakehead, neve seen a Dovii, doing anything like that....
Scott - you got that right. As I and many others have stated, a dovii maybe vicious but a channa is capable of flat out ripping another fish in half, a dovii isn't. Snakeheads are born to kill.
If I remember correctly the micro that did that was only about 9 inches long.
If I remember correctly the micro that did that was only about 9 inches long.
Yep just a baby....When I had a Red I fed him 5-6" Blue gill and it was only 9-10 inches, of course he grew like a mofo after that......
Not that I am arguing one fish or another (I still think it is a silly argument) but the main thing that got snakeheads banned was the same reason they were going to ban clarias cats for a while, they have a reputation for traveling overland. As far as the generalization that true carnivores are tougher than fish like cichlids I feel the need to point out that many true carnivores (while deadly) are relatively delicate and easily damaged like needlefish and payara.
Guppy, snakeheads have devestated rivers in the US, clarias haven't 
I can see more reason for a channa being banned than clarias.
I can see more reason for a channa being banned than clarias.
puffers. Don't know if anyone said this yet but I know out of all my monsters my sumatra puffer is the most aggressive
michael - puffers are aggressive, well most of them, and they have a pretty hardcore beak and fangs but I'm not sure of their fighting capability against a fast agile fish.
They look too slow and ponderous to be able to tackle a vicious channa or wolf fish, or asian river catfish etc which are very quick and agile fish. But I am no expert on puffers, I could be wrong.
They look too slow and ponderous to be able to tackle a vicious channa or wolf fish, or asian river catfish etc which are very quick and agile fish. But I am no expert on puffers, I could be wrong.
