Red Terror Aggression

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Has anyone else experienced this with Red Terrors?

Mine tends to ignore any fish that would qualify as feeders, but will go for shrimp. It also attacks any fish that is over 3" and/or around its size.

Mine doesn't appear to be food aggressive/ really predatory at all.

Reason why I ask this is, do you think it would be ok for me to add a school of tetras to my Red Terror's 55 gallon? Anyone have experiences where your large cichlid ignores the fish that are under 2 inches once your fish hits 8+ inches? (My female is around that size right now).
 
lol tetras would just be expensive feeders.

The reason it's attacking larger fishes is that it feels they are a bigger threat to it's territory, doesn't mean it won't harm smaller fishes if given the chance.
 
I kept Giant danio's with my pair. One would go missing every now and then, but you expect that.

Yeah, they will not accept the larger ones as they see them as competition for territory.
 
well from my experience with mines...the female trends to be more aggressive than the males...as you may think its the other way around i think in this species of cichlids...thats where the aggression would be more tense on that sex. I yet have seen it take any pellets which is odd....it only takes FD bloodworms...and live mealworms and earthworms....
 
She has honestly never eaten a feeder fish. Only feeders she eats are ghost shrimp. When I had cons breeding, she always left the babies alone. Shoot, that was such a pain cause then I would be overrun with convict fry.
 
 
Mad About Cichlids;1812570; said:
lol tetras would just be expensive feeders.

The reason it's attacking larger fishes is that it feels they are a bigger threat to it's territory, doesn't mean it won't harm smaller fishes if given the chance.
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this has nothing to do with the topic but DAMN NICE SIGN! beautiful :drool:
 
weedamese;1812692; said:
this has nothing to do with the topic but DAMN NICE SIGN! beautiful :drool:
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What planet are you on?

I cannot believe anyone could be so cold hearted as to keep a 13" Managuense and an Oscar in a 30g tank. If that was infact a hospital tank, like you told me, you would not have anything housed with the Mana and you would most certainly not be exciting a cichlid who already has HITH caused through stress.

That's seriously messed up.:(
 
if you want to add some smaller fish go with 2.5-3 inch exodons. mean fish for there size and i dont think your terror would bother them.
 
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