Pound for Pound toughest fish?
- Thread starter rumblesushi
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from my experience i think a dorado of equal size would win hands down. there so fast and hard hitting i think it could stirke 20 times before being struck back. all fish differ but i do know that my fahaka puffer is a wimp. i had him in a tank all buy himself so i introduced a male festea and it pounded on the fahaka so i removed him right away. then i tried a red devil and he also beat on the fahaka but not as bad so then i mixed the male festa with the rd and the first night the festea was kicking the crap out of him until the rd lost it and went bannanas on the festea so i had to remove the male festea. i also have a female festea that are supposedly meaner but still much smaller then most of my south americans. i like them all except for this little dumb shortbeak gar i have.. i think pretty soon hes going to meet my tank of cariba pirahna.
While I find this "which fish is tougher" mentality interesting and its somthing I used to do in choosing fish to a degree, what I really want is a predatory community tank not an aggressive one. With my rather inexperience even I know that to select tank mates for known aggressive fish you don't put them in one by one, you have a number of them so that its not constantly bullied. This post isn't targeted at anyone specifically but I'd say applies to a few out there. I don't think the way a fish kills its prey has to much impact on how it would do compared to another. Ok a piranha has surgical like teeth. A SH has ripping type teeth, duno what u wld class a Dovii's teeth as. Than you've got a jardini which can use its tongue to spear through a fish. Some fish bite some fish use their mass to clobber other fish. At the end of the day there is no definitive answer.
Destroy any fish if same length and weight 
