Hello!
Has anybody successfully socialized a red devil in a large community tank?
I'm not going to put a Red Devil in my current community because it would turn things very volatile over time. It gets a little rowdy in there from time to time as it is a mix of central Americans and CA hybrids, and some convicts that quietly raise their children in a pile of jars (noble creatures). I have other tanks and it has taken quite a bit of juggling but I have no kills to violence and fins are intact, just a lot of posturing over territories and the seven feet of PVC tunnels throughout the substrate.
Through making extensive territories and blocking line of sight throughout the tank, and making plenty of homes, I have a red dragon FH, Fader FH, Red Devil x Texas hybrid, three convicts, two dempseys, in a large tank, with some tinfoil barbs and a pack of giant danios, of which I haven't lost a single one. Does anybody else have this luck? And more importantly, with a Red Devil? The guy I know who sells the pure devils (Amphilophus Labiatus), with the long narrow bodies and long faces and big lips I don't see anywhere else, says that he often has trouble keeping them around because of how much they abuse each other and their tank makes. But he keeps them in smaller aquariums in a store with high turnover....like a dozen and a half three inch devils, FH, GTs, JDs, and firemouths in a 55 gallon, and the larger red devils (5") he keeps three in what looks like a 29 or maybe even a 20 long (it is easy to know who is where on the totem pole).
Red Devil lovers and owners past and current, please discourage me from putting one of these noble creatures into my tank to inevitably lock faces with my flowerhorns, red tex, JDs, and convict children. I hate when my fish die, but I like the tough fish.
Has anybody successfully socialized a red devil in a large community tank?
I'm not going to put a Red Devil in my current community because it would turn things very volatile over time. It gets a little rowdy in there from time to time as it is a mix of central Americans and CA hybrids, and some convicts that quietly raise their children in a pile of jars (noble creatures). I have other tanks and it has taken quite a bit of juggling but I have no kills to violence and fins are intact, just a lot of posturing over territories and the seven feet of PVC tunnels throughout the substrate.
Through making extensive territories and blocking line of sight throughout the tank, and making plenty of homes, I have a red dragon FH, Fader FH, Red Devil x Texas hybrid, three convicts, two dempseys, in a large tank, with some tinfoil barbs and a pack of giant danios, of which I haven't lost a single one. Does anybody else have this luck? And more importantly, with a Red Devil? The guy I know who sells the pure devils (Amphilophus Labiatus), with the long narrow bodies and long faces and big lips I don't see anywhere else, says that he often has trouble keeping them around because of how much they abuse each other and their tank makes. But he keeps them in smaller aquariums in a store with high turnover....like a dozen and a half three inch devils, FH, GTs, JDs, and firemouths in a 55 gallon, and the larger red devils (5") he keeps three in what looks like a 29 or maybe even a 20 long (it is easy to know who is where on the totem pole).
Red Devil lovers and owners past and current, please discourage me from putting one of these noble creatures into my tank to inevitably lock faces with my flowerhorns, red tex, JDs, and convict children. I hate when my fish die, but I like the tough fish.
