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water cows are very aggressive over territory and will go after things bigger than themselves to defend it. I once had an 8" Cow go after a 13" Mala.. needless to say the mala didn't like that and got ahold of the water cow. I took the water cow back before i had any fatalities. also water cows seem to look better on a light substrate. on black they turn solid black instead of having the nice light stripe. they also share the "log" roll with malas. only coming out to feed. but over all really cool fish.
Wolf fish. Different type like Lacardae but just not so available. More rare some would say.
I beg to differ.. I've kept several for a year at a time, never held their own. Even when larger they struggled, their scales don't do much in defending their body, though their scales are small so it makes sense. I will say they never backed down at first, but if the fish hurt them that was the end of that, they ran. Mines were always greedy, and friendly to me (though they'd bite my finger if I wiggled the tip at the water surface long enough to for them to come up), I had most of them hand feeding, there was one that I could pull out the water in my hand for a short amount of time. Against wolves they don't stand a chance even if they have a size advantage. Gobies in general aren't to aggressive ime, if at all.
Oh, well you said they were aggressive and in most cases mine weren't the aggressor, maybe it was just the exception?
