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dmopar74

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I'm looking for something MEAN! The spawn of satan! The king of the waters! The... Well you get the point by now. The worst I've had or seen in person is a male dovii, is there anything else that will give off the feeling of fear by simply looking at it?
 
Certain catfish species and wolfish with bad attitudes or if you dont live in the US Channa

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IMO for glass banger Jaguar (Parachromis Managuenis) look better and look more mean than Dovii, Dovii look quite odd to me while Jaguar look bad ass but Dovii bigger in size, for toothy mean looking I'm refer Goliath ATF or Aligator Gar
 
Piranha are the easy and obvious answer but an armatus or an aimara would fit the bill quite nicely.
 
In terms of home aquarium size fish, Hoplias aimara
 
Krich have you owned aimara? Responsive or logs with teeth? I don't think armatus are for me, I feel they need much larger tanks than most provide and are a little sensitive, that and we take week long vacations quite often with no fish sitters.
 
No,haven't had the pleasure yet but I have seen a few of them up close and personal at SharkAquarium and their tank ramming aggressiveness is very impressive.
 
A buddy had a 24" aimara in a 300gal stock tank with a framed chicken wire fence as a cover. One day while he was doing some sort of maintenance or something, he had his girlfriend hold the cover and warned her to keep an eye on the aimara. At some point while she was not paying attention to the aimara, it leapt out of the water at her. Fortunately for her, she was holding the cover in front, and the aimara smashed into the wire cover and fell back into the tank. Gave her the scare of her life.
 
Are snakeheads legal in nunya, op?

I had a 15" one some 26 years ago. Used to tease it dipping a finger in the tank. He caught me one day sliced my finger up pretty good.
 
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