Can I keep 2 adult male Green Terrors together in the same tank?

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I have a 10" male Green Terror and an 8" male GT. I want to keep them together in a 210 g tank. Would they be ok together or would they probably fight a lot?

Right now I keep them in different tanks with a lot of different SA Cichlids. They aren't aggressive at all to my other fish. I'm just not sure if my GTs can get along with each other.
 
I have 2 adult male green terrors 7" and 10" together with 4 juvenile green terrors at 4-5". No problems at all for me, depends on the personality but it seems like it would work
 
I was able to raise 4 GT brothers to adulthood in a 75 gal. They were not in total peace but butt head and locked jaw from time to time, but no great harm done as there were enough of them to spread the aggression. GT can be kept as a group in a big tank, provided that you remove all females to avoid pairing super aggression. Keeping GT in a bachelor group can induce the dominant male to grow ridiculously big hump. You have a large enough tank to keep multiple GT males in harmony, but keeping only 2 may not work due to targeting aggression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTR2g-hYgI

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tiger15 said:
I was able to raise 4 GT brothers to adulthood in a 75 gal. They were not in total peace but butt head and locked jaw from time to time, but no great harm done as there were enough of them to spread the aggression. GT can be kept as a group in a big tank, provided that you remove all females to avoid pairing super aggression. Keeping GT in a bachelor group can induce the dominant male to grow ridiculously big hump. You have a large enough tank to keep multiple GT males in harmony, but keeping only 2 may not work due to targeting aggression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTR2g-hYgI
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Stunning collection of Gold Saums. I'd love to do this with my 90G, but quality GT's are hard to find locally.
 
GTs are fairly common in LFSs but high quality are hard to find. My strain is an Asian import selectively bred for high body, big hump and thick orange edge. I am currently raising the 4th generation GTs out of the original pair. The wild type has longer body and more aggressive. Mine are mellow and never bother smaller fish. As you can see in the youtube, I even kept a black angel with them for a year, thinking that she wouldn't last for 2 days. Ultimately, the angel laid eggs on her own and attacked the GTs in a clash of Dave versus Goliath. So I traded the angel away for fear that she would get hurt.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTR2g-hYgI
 
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