My Monster Cichlid

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JYayAD

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This guy is my favorite fish, I bought him when he was only 1 inch big almost 2 years ago. He has seen a lot of fish come and go (actually he killed all the fish that use to be in his tank when he was being raised). The only fish he will live with is the female loiselli. They have a weird relationship, he never attacks her and lets her swim freely, BUT if I put ANY (and I mean any, he has killed well over 15 fish, small ones such as african cichlids and big ones such as a 12 inch Flowerhorn that was much larger than him at the time) other fish in there he will kill it. So she has become one of my favorites as well. His name is simply Jag. Enjoy!

All pics taken with no flash, these are their true colors.
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She has a nice red tint throughout her body
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He has always had a dark golden background, a lot of jags are light gold or white in the background. Sometimes you can see hints of purple in his background.
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This is so you can see how large they are, she is in the front on this pic, she is around 7-8 inches.
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As you can see when he comes to the front he is large, he is atleast 13 inches.
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One more pic.
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NICE! I love jags:) that is def. an odd couple:)
My jag is odd, he will tolerate almost anything haha
 
Great Pics!! Your Jag is nice!!! And I like that Giraffe statue you have
 
Great fish!!!
 
Two of my favorite fish. That's really cool that he'll tolerate her in there.

He's a hunk.
 
Thanks for the compliments everyone :) I picked him out of around 100 fry and he was doubled the size of all of them and the most aggressive. When he was 1 inch the rest were 1/2 inch or less. He isn't even 2 years old yet and he has already reached 13 inches. I know that is a pretty large Jag because they usually get 10-13 inches big. But since he isn't that old yet, I'm hoping over the next year he might be able to get to 15 inches which would be one of the biggest Jags I have ever seen.

By the way, she guards the tank just as crazy as he does, maybe thats why he respects her :)
 
Very nice :)
 
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