Pound for Pound toughest fish?

[piranha45]

a battle between a 3-foot snakehead and a 2-foot dovii would be quite a spectacle! Or a 30" dovii and a 4' snakehead.

 

[rumblesushi]

My money would be on the SH. There are just more equipped to kill.

 

[CentralMayhem]

and whos to say the outcome would be the same evry time.

 

[rumblesushi]

sure, would probably depend on the individual fish and circumstances. But say with an average specimen of each fish, either placed into a new tank at the same time, or a divider being removed on their existing tank. In a fair match like that my cash would be on the SH.

Cichlids can fight but they are just not as equipped to kill as pure predators which are also very aggressive like giant snakeheads/wolf fish etc.

 

[kevin714]

When my Dovii was 6 inches he killed my 10 1/2 inch pike without getting a scratch. I was mad that it hapened cause I loved that pike but there was nothing I could do. I had a divider up and when I was out the Dovii busted through and tore him up.

 

[kevin714]

A Dovii is a pure predator they are built for hunting and killing other fish in open water lakes, like lake nicaragua. No veggies in their diet, pure piscivors. They also have large teeth and mega aggression when full grown. Having owned snakeheads(red and cobra) and Dovii I would say it would be a toss up between only the giant(red) snakehead and a dovii of equal weight and full grown. Against all other snakehead species I would go with the Dovii. My reasoning is take the cobra snakehead for example to equal a 30 inch dovii in weight it would have to be very long but cobra's aren't that thick so this would give the Dovii alot of area to attack possible even biting him in two. The Dovii's stockeness would give it an advantage in speed and manuverability. IMHO of course

 

[kevin714]

Oh I forgot to mention my opinion is based on the fight taking place in a huge tank where movement was completly unrestricted.

 

[piranha45]

cobras are more slender than reds at the same length, eh? like, 1/3 less massive or what?

 

[flowerfan]

so according to all the imformation in these thread, I would say dovi is most aggressive and sh is most dangeous fish in fresh water.

 

[flowerfan]

also I would put red devil and dovi in the same catelog. I own one red devil my self for almost 9 years from when I bough him at 3" now he is aroung 14". I used to had over 40 fish in the 125 g tank( they all were around 3" to 6" at that time) including sh but not dovi. now only my red devil can make it live until now. He is now very old fish, big and slow. I used to owned few different kind of sh before, including red line and cobra sh. My red line was growing much faster than other fish, so I sold him after he killed my green terror. Autually it was only 8" at that time and the green terror liked 4" so the gt was really too big for him to eat so It bit of whole chuck of meat from my gt's back, gt die few days later.