in a tournament of the best predatory fish around, all weighing the same - who would you fancy?
It's fairer to do it by weight, like boxing, for example a 12 inch rhom is gonna weigh significantly more than a 12 inch senegal bichir.
Also I know that fish are not robots, it does come down to the individual - just how aggressive, pugnacious and tough they are.
For example my red snakehead was extremely aggressive even for the species.
Not only would it attack your hand if you stroked the tank and go for your fingers if you went around the top of the tank, but I once tried mixing it with fish the same size to see if anything could live with it. I tried 2 fish of equal size and it ripped them to shreds as soon as they arrived (seperate occasions).
And it was not even hungry, it was very well fed on beefheart, shrimps, goldfish etc.
Yet my pirhanas were not aggressive at all. A goldfish could live for days in that tank, they seemed to prefer dead food. And if i put my hand in they would do nothing.
So let's say we take an average specimen of each fish, not one that's unusually aggresive or timid.
Who would your money be on? (excluding poisonous fish, has to be a fair fist fight (well mouth
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I guess the contenders are red snakeheads, wolf fish, african tiger, possibly a rhom? Lungfish?
It's fairer to do it by weight, like boxing, for example a 12 inch rhom is gonna weigh significantly more than a 12 inch senegal bichir.
Also I know that fish are not robots, it does come down to the individual - just how aggressive, pugnacious and tough they are.
For example my red snakehead was extremely aggressive even for the species.
Not only would it attack your hand if you stroked the tank and go for your fingers if you went around the top of the tank, but I once tried mixing it with fish the same size to see if anything could live with it. I tried 2 fish of equal size and it ripped them to shreds as soon as they arrived (seperate occasions).
And it was not even hungry, it was very well fed on beefheart, shrimps, goldfish etc.
Yet my pirhanas were not aggressive at all. A goldfish could live for days in that tank, they seemed to prefer dead food. And if i put my hand in they would do nothing.
So let's say we take an average specimen of each fish, not one that's unusually aggresive or timid.
Who would your money be on? (excluding poisonous fish, has to be a fair fist fight (well mouth

I guess the contenders are red snakeheads, wolf fish, african tiger, possibly a rhom? Lungfish?