Ideas for most aggressive fish for a 180
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I don’t know much about pikes so there a certain species to look for or a pike is a pike
For interactive, I’d
what about a fahaka? That will check all of your boxes. That might be the most aggressive and interactive fish I’ve ever had.
My favorite type of Pike are the Orange Pike Cichlids (Xingu 1). Look them up in the Pike section of this site and on the internet. They are beautiful and efficient predators.
Also like to add some species of Pike Cichlid are from low PH waters for example the Amazon and will be susceptible to HITH if placed in a high PH environment.
Here is a pair of haitiensus i had, and kept in a similar size, 6 ft tank.
Of course, at adult size, they would not tolerate any other tank mates.
The male easily hit @ 15", the female slightly smaller.
Their presence, and imposing and dominant personality made a 6 ft tank look tiny.
Of course, at adult size, they would not tolerate any other tank mates.
The male easily hit @ 15", the female slightly smaller.
Their presence, and imposing and dominant personality made a 6 ft tank look tiny.
I second the haitiensis. My vote goes either haitiensis, parachromis friedrichsthalii (former loisellei) or multifasciatus (former friedrichsthalii), or m. festae. Could also do a female blue umbee if you're fine with the relative lack of color. If you want something more interesting, you can look into the bigger Malawi haps like champsochromis, tyrannochromis, nimbochromis and buccochromis. Serranochromis is also a cool option if you can find them. I don't really know anything else that fits the bill for "most aggressive" and fills out a 180, while being easily accessible. The smaller bass species are cool and all but that involves finding and catching an individual of that species at a legal size. No one really sells them. Sunfish don't come anywhere close to the aggression of cichlids. My p. multifasciatus (3" at the time) killed like 6 green sunfish (some bigger than him) that I was housing with him temporarily within a matter of 3 days. Pikes just kinda slink around, basically the same as getting a bichir but more colorful. You're not really getting a glass banger out of those. Amphilophus are cool and pretty aggressive, but not as crazy as the aforementioned species. Close second though.
Flowerhorns are a waste of money, you're paying for a fish that is guaranteed to get a disease and live a quarter of the amount of time it's purebred ancestors would. A 180 is too small for any arowana.
Agree on flowerhorns. Never seem to get a full life span and constant digestive issues.
