Red Devil, oscar tankmates

[Rui]

I really love oscars and RDs/Midas myself, but I avoid the mix.

In a 200 gal, assuming you have enough Oscars/P bass, it should be enough fish to keep your RD from targetting any one enough to kill them. I don't think your RD will kill them, but you honestly never know.

With that being said, the thing you have to watch out for IMO, is ensuring your Oscars are WAY smaller than your RD. You don't want them to challenge the RD. Oscars will try to 'lip lock' with the RD, and the RD will snap your Oscar's jaws. Happened to me 2x. Don't mix them anymore for that reason.

Ever notice why you see sooo many large oscars with crooked jaws?

 

[oscaroo]

do not do it red deviles are evile. oscars are aggressive but red devils are monsters so no.

 

[danny2875]

I had an oscar and a devil live together. My devil wouldnt dare challenge my oscar. It happened once and the oscar came at him like a tank. Alot of people sleep on the oscar but they can be nasty. A 12in oscar has some brute strength. They may not have the vice grip bite like the devil but they make it up with their power.

 

[TheTankMates]

Years ago I was moving fish around a few tanks and threw a Mi-devil in a tank that I had an oscar in for awhile. Not 5 minutes later and the oscar was almost dead. I knew I was pushing it and what cichlids were capable of but thought surely for 5 mins i can do this. I was wrong and I learned from it.

 

[Iwhoopedbatman]

You guys realize this thread is 6 years old, right? I do kind of wonder what came of it though. That was a lot of fish for a 200.

 

[Frank the Red Devil]

I have a red devil cichlid i put it with a oscar he almost killed the oscar he would've been dead if i hadn't gave him to a friend of mine .I cant house my red devil with anything.