Meanest fish max 90 gallon

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Jack Dempsey
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I’m looking for a fish that will eat anything I throw in as I need to cull guppies that are not going to make the cut (breeding for quality not quantity?
I don’t want piranhas, looking for something new world cichlid

Thanks

Will start out in a 40b or 55 but will end up in a 90

Also want a
 
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Gulper cat, jag cichlids, FH, wolf fish, eels, other people will chime in on more suggestions
 
Since you are only feeding guppies your options are wide open. You can keep Convicts or Firemouths if you are wanting more than one fish in the tank. Basically a 6 inch cichlid would suffice unless you are wanting the largest fish your tank can handle.
 
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JD (naturally eats guppies/mollies)

Saxatilis/Sveni/belly crawler pike or a pair of dwarf pikes

Not cichlids but..

Erythinus erythinus (red hi-fin wolf fish)

30+ shoal of Exodon paradoxus (bucktooth tetra aka mini-piranha)

Upper jaw bichirs
 
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Or you could try a pair of what i have at the moment, the 5 star general cichlid Hemichromis Elongatus. It is old world but they're very colorful, get to a size where they would be very comfortable in a tank that size and you'd have the added bonus of breeding.
The best fish for no nonsense swallowing stuff whole it's probably going to be an Oscar ! They don't tend to be as shy as things like Jags, JD and Grammodes although they're not as pretty.
 
Not a new world cichlid... but our natives are pretty to keep. And definitely will eat guppy culls fast.

Warmouth: several different variants but all pretty to look at regardless.

Pumpkinseeds are my favorite out of bluegills

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They're not native to me, but wish they were. I'd love to be able to go out and catch my own invasive large cichlids like you can in the warmer US states.
 
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