Pound for Pound toughest fish?

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if going pound for pound tuffest, then i'd say pea puffers. these guys are pretty damn aggressive and only get to 1". i'd say with such a high aggression level devided out to 1" they take the cake. i mean sh's might be more aggressive but because of their size they can't win it pound for pound ;)
 
siamese flying fox or plec... in a tank, either would pound any fish to death against the side of a tank just takes either to get in a bad mood n over teritorial... i have a 3" flying fox that owns my 9" p.bass (pbass cant cant it to eat it so it just spends 2hrs a day pickin on the bass and head butting him, they are now seperated..! and a 4" albino common plec that owns my 6" oscar... pound for pound toughest fish... can take a beating n just swim off like nout happened too, lol...
 
For attitude I would go with a Convict, If they got big and had teeth watch out. I've had big Snakeheads and big Wolfs. Both mean as hell. Both would try to bite you through the glass. I never put them together. I was thinking if put together, What fish bites first the Snakehead would bite and spin or shake a piece out of the other. If the wolf bites first it usually hold on till the fish is dead or he can turn it around to swallow it. I seen a Giant Wolf the other day and was very impressed.
 
I've read through most of this thread and have to laugh. Convicts and oscars? Please, a wussy bifasciatum or black belt have more bite. While I agree with the Dovii and SH, there's a cichlid that unless I missed it has not been mentioned.

Festae, particularly females, are much more brutal than dovii. I watched my friend's 10 inch female festae beat his male 16" dovii constantly into submission. The male festae in my avatar pic was probably the most docile fish you've ever seen until you added something else in the tank.

I thought I'd use an oscar, seemingly tough, as a dither fish with the pair. Expecting that the female would be the one to brutalize it, I was sadly mistaken. Within a few minutes of walking out of the room after introducing the oscar to the tank, I could hear CRUNCH like someone swinging a bat against a hollow door. I go back to find the docile male taking chunks out of the oscar.

SH do have an advantage in regard to biting ability because of the teeth, but for sheer brutal power I'm going with the festae.

I'd like to see a SH vs. Black piranha though. I'm betting on the black piranha.
 
Miles;42058; said:
Puffers don't really have the killing instinct that the other Predators do. If you were to put a large puffer in with a large dovii.. The Dovii would be much more quick and agile, and instantly lace into the puffer (and probably stun himself) but make him puff up immediately. Granted, Puffers have the biggest bite of any fish, pound for pound (FW), but they don't have that berzerk go out and attack anything mentality.

If you consider it a matter of weight, you have to look at the Snakeheads body shape in comparison to most other predators. He is going to weigh less but be just as viscious at maximum size. Red Devils, Dovii's, Umbee's will all weigh a considerable amount, in comparison to a slender bodied giant snakehead.

I would be more interested in the match verse snakeheads and perhaps a lungfish, but lungfish don't have that berzerk attitude either. Big difference between a 'large predator' and 'a crazy whacked out bite your face off predator'..

Just a few things to think about. I am sure we are not considering alot of factors, so I don't know exactly who would win. I heard Aba Aba knifes are quite nasty too, and as long and streamline as they are, they will not weigh as much.

I would go with Channa, Dovii, Aba Aba.. I guess ? :)
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wrong! my fahaka was a few inches smaller than my 11" fh. i one day had to keep them together for one night w/ no divider. i was worried that the fahaka was going to get beat up the next morning but boy was i wrong. the fh wouldn't even go near the fahaka and the fh's tail was shredded!
 
UMBEE hand down!!

followed by black nasty, Dovii, Red devil aba aba!
 
again, i'd agree with the sh, umbees aba aba's ect. ect. if this was for the toughest fish period. but this is toughest fish for their size. still gotta go with dwarf puffers, only get an inch and can take on any fish not big enough to eat them.
 
a snakeheads mouth and teeth are made for ripping and a bowfin mouth and teeth are made for holding its prey snake head would wreck a bowfin
 
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