Red vs green Texas

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Ihsnshaik

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Recently got a Red Texas and every large male is trying to pair off with her!

The hormones on my male red devil went crazy and beat the hell out of my male flowerhorn so I isolated.

The green Texas is maybe an inch smaller than the red but showed some aggression and interest.

Here are some pics. He didn't actually hurt her though.

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If you breed to that green tx you will have very small chance of any big head fry. and you have Nice red devils
 
Recently got a Red Texas and every large male is trying to pair off with her!
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And this comes as a surprise? That female should be isolated, and paired up with an appropriate male. In the comm tank with multiple males, you might as well have just dropped a supermodel into an all male prison. Before everything is said and done, there's going to be some serious beat downs within the population. Good luck.
 
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the animal guy said:
If you breed to that green tx you will have very small chance of any big head fry. and you have Nice red devils
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Thanks!! Not trying to breed her to this Texas actually don't care if she breeds or not. Those Red Devils are headaches I have way too many from multiple frys. They're for sale sold a lot just have the bigger males.
 
RD. said:
And this comes as a surprise? That female should be isolated, and paired up with an appropriate male. In the comm tank with multiple males, you might as well have just dropped a supermodel into an all male prison. Before everything is said and done, there's going to be some serious beat downs within the population. Good luck.
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In my 200 gallon those small to medium fish are my red devil Midas that are for sale. Only threat is that green Texas but he's not even a fighter he's just being a male. Let me show you her mate he's huge and scary. They already paired off and dug a pit. I don't want her to breed because I don't want aggression but I do have a tank divider and another tank I can isolate her incase things go south.
I did have a red devil the dad go at her right away and him and the flowerhorn fought like crazy. I took the male red devil out. Everyone is scared of the flowerhorn and especially the green tex.

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RD. said:
Before everything is said and done, there's going to be some serious beat downs within the population. Good luck.
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Spot on. Dropping any large cichlid into an established tank is just asking for issues. You might be mistaking "amorous intentions" on the other fish with simple territorial aggression. Good luck.
 
I agree with RD and Mo, anytime you have a community of aggressive fish, you should expect fighting and death, especially when adding fish piecemeal.
Aggressive communities only occasionally work when all fish are added at the same time, as juvies, where they can grow up together, and work out some type of simpatico, territorial arrangement where no new stranger dare cometh.
 
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