Jag's fighting stance?

[JESTERX626]

I notice when my texas and jag liplock, the texas is almost stationary and waiting for the jag to advance while it's mouth is opening and closing, looks like its estimating the distance from how soon and how close the jag is about to liplock. My jag, he runs forward, stops before hitting the jag, moves back, and repeats, and eventually after a while finally runs into the texas. Do all cichlids do that or are some also stationary-like, like my texas? Just noticed the different ways of fighting those two do.

 

[balton777]

Sometimes they bluff. Meaning that they'll face off with flaring gills, mouth wide open (and doing that back/foward thing you said) to claim dominance without actually having to liplock. If they can get the other to back down, they can be dominant without risking injury. Of course if the other fish stands his ground, they're going to fight. Does that seem kind of like what they're doing? My jags signature move is to swim full force into the side of other cichlids and bash their kidneys in. This seems to hurt them pretty bad and scales go flying everywhere. He's pretty cool most of the time though, it's only if they get near his cave.

 

[JESTERX626]

Yea thats what they're doing. I catch my jag rarely but surely, rams into the side of my texas. The texas use to be the dominant one, one inch longer and twice as tall, pretty interesting to see the tables turn.