Guttulatum temperament?

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I'm building a 60x16x16" tank soon (around 75 gallons? 80? not sure) and one fish I love is the vieja guttulatum. I just want to know how agressive they are. I have had a fenestratus which killed the most agressive midas ive ever had, and I have a Regani right now getting bullied by a geophagus :P

So which vieja gene did this guy get? I ask because it will very likely be sharing the tank with a severum and something else... and I want to know if the severum will survive. The sev would be about 5" and the gutty about 2", but ive headr they shoot to 8" in about 6 months anyway. so... Are they ver aggro, or not?
 
Aggressive to conspecifics. Mine is a little over a foot and by himself in a tank. He was in with several other cichlids up until about 6" and never really had any aggression problems. The key is having all the fish grow up together. Eventually that tank will be way to small for both of those fish.
 
Both of what fish? A severum doesnt get too big for a 5 foot tank... and I didnt think the Gutty would. Do you mean the regani and the fene? well the fene I no longer have, and the regani is in a 100g... which I doubt it will outgrow, but if it does, I have a lighlty stocked 180 anyway.
 
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