Amphilophus Terminatoratus

[nmadsen4]

AKA Trimaculatus

Huge mistake.

I put a Trimac, Festae, Carpintis, and Managuense all 2.5" in a 180.

Within 3 days the Jag was hiding and i thought he was just a panzy. Well....... about 2 weeks later the Trimac decided to murder the Escondido in less than an hour.

I checked the fish and then left....... I came back and the Escondido was ghost white and upside down with every scale on his body missing. He died shortly after I put him in the hospital tank.

Then I thought well OK the Festae is pretty tough, i'm sure he'll be fine and everyone tells me the Jag will stand his own as soon as he gets bigger.

NO! Wrong!
Another hour goes by, I check the fish again and the Festae is absolutely shredded, she looks like a wet rag doll. I immediately took the Trimac out and it looks like the Festae will be just fine now but my god I could not have been so wrong for leaving the Trimac in there.

Now the funny part, With 3 minutes of taking out the Trimac the Jag emerges for the first time in 2 weeks. Lol. Here I was thinking he was a puss but in actuality he was the only smart fish in the whole tank.

R.I.P. Escondido, I'm thinking of getting a Media Luna from Ken to replace him.

Sorry all for the lengthy Thread but I dont know anybody else who would understand.

 

[famous323]

trimacs are aggressive even though my 4" males gets along with my 3 barred midas

 

[Horiyoshi III]

They are all capable of inflicting the same exact damage if you say they are all the same size.

It was just down to which individual specimen was the lone aggressor.

In another case it would of been any other of those 3.Or none at all.

Specimen specific, a great story though.They look amazing as adults, the Trimac.
Good luck.

 

[Mike fail]

remember that thread, where everyone said that the jag was going to wreck everything, yeah im the guy who said watch out for the trimac.

 

[shamrock]

Every now and then you get that fish that is psycho-fortunately or unfortunately for you, you have one-personally I would keep it as a wet pet-cause from what I read it will kill anything else you put in your tank.

 

[nmadsen4]

remember that thread, where everyone said that the jag was going to wreck everything, yeah im the guy who said watch out for the trimac.

I do remember you saying that and you were completely right. At least my Jag is out swimming around now I wish I would have been able to save the Escondido tho.

 

[abiddle]

Was the Trimac a male?

The reason I ask is that I have a male Trimac wet pet, and a female with a Midas/RD and a pair of JD's.

Thanks!

 

[shamrock]

You should always introduce cichlids at the same time and around the same size-smaller the better.
That way they establish a pecking order and no one gets killed.

 

[Toby_H]

You should always introduce cichlids at the same time and around the same size-smaller the better.
That way they establish a pecking order and no one gets killed.

I put a Trimac, Festae, Carpintis, and Managuense all 2.5" in a 180.

He did that... and one got killed and another got severely beaten...

Mixing Cichlids is a risk... the more aggressive the species the higher the risk...

There are many things we can do to reduce the risk... but not really anything we can do to remove it... Except stop keeping fish but that's just ridiculous...

 

[Jason_S]

at that size I wouldn't think it would have been that severe but there are occasionally just down right nasty, super aggressive specimens that will destroy tankmates even from a small size. You usually don't see that kind of aggression till around 4-6".

sorry for your loss but I'm glad your jag is doing better.