I've had different results to what people have stated above. Of the 5 that I have kept they were quite mild and temperement was similar to an oscar. I have housed mine with Green terrors, oscars, cubans, jack dempseys, convicts and a bunch of other large community fish and were never the dominant fish.
Parachromis friedrichsthali?
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They're pretty tame unless they're breeding, then they get really nasty, moreso than jags do when they breed.
I have a 3" Freddy, I got him when he was 1.5". I found his temperament to be very, very similar to my Jags. Meaning that Jags are sneaky hunters and lay in wait rather than chase prey, and wait till dusk/dark to strike! They won't hesitate to destroy fish that are bigger than themselves if they aren't similar temperamented fish that can reasonably defend themselves. Mine now lives in with a 9" Jag, a 5" Trimac and a 4" Salvini and he generally keeps to himself! Nice fish though! Good luck ith him!
I only owned a female 2 yrs. ago she didn't last more then a month with 1.0.2 grammodes in the tank the dovii I got along with her was also killed. All the ones I've seen were pretty mild dempsey like tempers. she reminded me of nimbochromis livinstoni in temperment. i take that back the livingstoni held off manguense,maculacuadas,& the likes.
