questions about buttikoferi tilapia.

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Jack Dempsey
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i have been thinking and i am deciding to buy buttikoferi tilapia. i know they can be very aggressive towards others. now time for questions!

1. Do they grow pretty fast?

2. How big do they get?

thnx!
 
These are fierce fishes that are very difficult to comm with other fishes.
 
They are pretty trippy to me because they carry a straight cute face all day even while fighting another fish.
 
Mine is growing very fast and eats like a freaking pig. He is only aggressive to the other fish in the tank the same size as him, but with that little mouth, cant really do much damage to anyone, yet.
 
yeh mine eats like a pig too... between 12" to 14".... I keep her with various cichlids her size or slightly smaller and she behaves fairly well... no issues. She is not the meany I was told to be....
 
I bought Venom and Carnage on November 11, 2009 as fry both at < 0.5 inches. There is now a considerable difference in size. One is about 3.5" and the other is > 5".

As for aggression, I had to remove an albino compresscep from the tank due to them mutulating it. I slapped it in the Mbuna tank and it is now fine. I have seen no aggression toward the End. Bichir tankmate.

They constantly attempt to steal food from the three florida gars mouths, but always give a wide birth to these monsters when their toothy mouths are free. The six inch Jaguar cichlid (use to be a chicken) rules that tank with an iron fist, err big mouth!
 
they grow very fast eat just about every thing. I had one for about three years in a 29 gallon he was about 12 inches a local fish store in michigan Garden City has one about 15 inches it just huge in a 900 gal with dovi, red tilapia, texas, JD basically every large south american you can name... A crowded enviornment is the key I think.. His fish never fight and they are all huge... My Butti killed everything... He was great with others til he got about 8 inches and went nuts on me... lol killed a red devil and a texas blue that were the same size
 
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