This video explains it better than I can.
Dovii tank mate ?
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Lol How many posts have we seen on here of “my dovii gets along with everyone in the tank” and this little 3” dude has massacred a tank.
I would say it depends on the individual dovii. At 4" in a 55g tank, you could probably keep him with similarly sized aggressive cichlids depending on the individual personality of the dovii. Red devils, convicts, trimac, etc. as long as they are around the same size. I would not add one or two fish at a time, I would add three at once and completely change the décor of the tank. This will hopefully trick the dovii into thinking the tank is not his territory before the other fish can get established.
How long this would work in a 55g is hit or miss; it might not work now at 4" or you might be okay until the fish add a couple inches. With how quickly these fish grow I would say youd have 2-3 months max before needing a much larger tank.
In the future, as others have stated, it is VERY hard to get anything to live with an adult male dovii. Even if you keep him alone, he will need a 200+ gallon tank. If you had some 500 gallon + tank, you might be able to keep other adult aggressive cichlids with him. Key word there is "might".
All in all, I think you are better off keeping him alone.
How long this would work in a 55g is hit or miss; it might not work now at 4" or you might be okay until the fish add a couple inches. With how quickly these fish grow I would say youd have 2-3 months max before needing a much larger tank.
In the future, as others have stated, it is VERY hard to get anything to live with an adult male dovii. Even if you keep him alone, he will need a 200+ gallon tank. If you had some 500 gallon + tank, you might be able to keep other adult aggressive cichlids with him. Key word there is "might".
All in all, I think you are better off keeping him alone.
Like mentioned before depends on the size of the tank. 55g 4" size there are a lot of fish you can keep with him if they are comparable size. You will begin to know what fish get along and don't. Sometimes over crowding you can keep more fish with it. I kept a Dovii in a community tank with lots of fish. But my tank was 300 gallons.
