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[Magnus_Bane]

I mean they have been hanging with the big fish no problem. Just couldn’t believe they were Africans because my other tank of full sized Africans are as passive as can be.

Just remember the jewels are not a lake cichlid, they come from streams and rivers instead. They may be an African specie but they don't come from the same lakes that most Africans come from. In other words a different environment = different behaviours.

 

[ryansmith83]

Hemichromis can be brutally mean. I have a 3” male H. exsul in a 150 gallon tank right now absolutely terrorizing 10” American cichlids and at this point I don’t even know what to do with him except keep him in solitary. He’s killed two females and three other males of his own kind. It would not surprise me to see jewels hold their own against large American cichlids, especially since they’re small and nimble enough to escape.

I would be concerned for the rainbows as they are usually a very placid and peaceful fish that I would think the red Texas would eventually decide to destroy.

 

[duanes]

Hemichromis can be brutally mean. I have a 3” male H. exsul in a 150 gallon tank right now absolutely terrorizing 10” American cichlids and at this point I don’t even know what to do with him except keep him in solitary. He’s killed two females and three other males of his own kind. It would not surprise me to see jewels hold their own against large American cichlids, especially since they’re small and nimble enough to escape.

I would be concerned for the rainbows as they are usually a very placid and peaceful fish that I would think the red Texas would eventually decide to destroy.

Agree with this.
There are at least 15 different known species of Hemichromis (Jewel Cichlids) the largest of which H. facsiatus is seldom imported because it is so aggressive, usually killing all tank mates of whatever tank it is placed into, including much larger cichlids.
It is probably the largest growing Hemichromis reaching up to 10".
It is said the H. elongatus is almost as aggressive, but stays a tad smaller.
Not all are "red" like the most commonly kept H. bimaculatus , there are yellow and blue colored species

 

[Rass]

Definitely looks like a Herichthys/FH mix, and herotilapia multispinosa in the group shots. The rest are Africans which I'm not too familiar with, looks like jewel cichlids and a bigger hap or peacock.