I tried green swordtails with firemouth and salvini the swordtails were longer than either cichlid and I found them all one at a time every morning in pieces throughout the tank. The bristlenose enjoyed the remains...
fastest livebear dithers? swordtails?
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savini did it, they have teeth, i would never try with something like that. I have seen them tear out the stomach of a full grown firemouth. SOmething was ripping out stomachs of my cichlids in my six foot tank. I thought it was oscar till i saw the salvini do it.
I tried green swordtails with firemouth and salvini the swordtails were longer than either cichlid and I found them all one at a time every morning in pieces throughout the tank. The bristlenose enjoyed the remains...
Id say jewels are as bad as salvini.
my male salvini can beat up my 8 inch pike cichlid lol I had big jewels in there and they got picked on I thought jewels were insane fighters they are for size can take on convicts female sal not male sal. Jewels can also take on mbuna no issue. Five stars better suited to salvini..
male salvini get bigger than most convicts and jewels i noticed. SOMe cons are monster sized tho like a bull dog. lol
lol I've had some mean jewels lived with 14" oscar. I've had to put a sub adult male yellow lab in with a full grown male flowerhorn and he lived in there just fine lol that yellow lab was the most aggressive fish I've ever owned
with my labs so far the sword tails are good but the ob electric blue and ob peacocks killed them in my 75, they do great iwth my electric blue jd's also and my firemouth i just got.
yeah ive had some damn fierce jewels also. I think same size can hold own, but the salvini gets bigger then gets those teeth. Jewels are like convict level. I have golden jewel also guinea 2 they are worse. I collect jewel species. Hemicrhomis frempongi, elongatus, guinea 1 guinea 2, neon and lafili. The golden jewel is worse as in it will tear other fishes up and kill. BUT the reg jewel might be tougher.
They are my fave family of cichlids i had a monster jewel over six inches but he died of old age. Id love to find another one that was huge.
I had a big male jewel kill female salvini close size. But that jewel had issues with a joannni pike cichlid. But jewels just keep going. They dont seem like fish who start fights they just end them. Usually they arent bullies until they start breeding. Like convicts.
They are my fave family of cichlids i had a monster jewel over six inches but he died of old age. Id love to find another one that was huge.
I had a big male jewel kill female salvini close size. But that jewel had issues with a joannni pike cichlid. But jewels just keep going. They dont seem like fish who start fights they just end them. Usually they arent bullies until they start breeding. Like convicts.
I havent had an aggressive yellow lab once, i mean some will fight off mbuna but never had a bully. A lot keep mbuna with flower horns and RD as dithers. They are fast. The worst fish i ever had i think is tilapia butt. Is just batshit insane. Red devil might be tougher better fighters but still they can live with other fish but tilapia just takes on everything. I can't believe my baby tilapia 4 inch can beat up my chipokae and aratus who are same size and must be adults. I thought mbuna would be able to take out a baby tilapia.
