Small to Medium Aggressive Cichlids

[Chrisplosion]

Bonsai Flowerhorn

 

[Burto]

I highly recommend salvinis. That's my ~5" female in my avatar.

 

[JacobWhitley]

What are some small to medium sized aggressive new worlds that wont get bigger than 9" ? Stuff along the lines of Convicts, Blue Acara, Neets, and Salvini.

Salvini's are mean lil monsters and the biggest i have seen a male is 9"

 

[Cichlidfever]

Red Jewels, cutteri, 5 star Jewel.

 

[marksuttonjr]

Tonight I got rid of a 4" male JD that is viscious. I traded him and a lot of aquarium items that I was never going to use for a 55 gal tank. I think that I made out well considering that the JD has killed 2 female JD's, and several pleco.

 

[Anubisscott]

Salvini are stunning fish, I would give them a shot.

 

[thatsmycichlid]

grammodes are nasty little fish umm what about a texas they are usualy around 8 to 10 inches i love texas and also black/pink convicts

 

[JoeTurner14]

assuming you want to be sure to stay under 9", I'd skip the GT and put a "maybe" on the Dempsey . . . I don't think Blue Acara or Firemouth are particulalry aggressive, but there are exceptions in every breed

Salvini would be a nice choice . . . colorful, nasty reputation, and likely to max-out at that 6-8" sweet-spot . . .

i have a pair of Blue Acara's in a 120 gallon with some other small fish, and the male rules the whole tank. He has a nasty reputation and makes sure everyone else knows where they stand. When my pair bred, he put on some amazing colours, so I think overall quite a nice fish at 5 inches.

Check out my tank in my signature for pictures.

 

[SOA]

I like the Bartoni suggestion, Grammodes too are what im looking for. Also cutteri and firemouth are possibilities. I also thought of Nicaraguan's as a possibility. Salvini will definately be in the tank. Do Cubans get above the 9" mark? Keep the suggestions coming - small to medium size with medium to high aggression. thanks.

 

[Sab_Fan]

i have a pair of Blue Acara's in a 120 gallon with some other small fish, and the male rules the whole tank. He has a nasty reputation and makes sure everyone else knows where they stand. When my pair bred, he put on some amazing colours, so I think overall quite a nice fish at 5 inches.

I love BAs, I think they are great fish . . . but while they might tend to bully smaller fish, they won't necessarily kill them, which is what some truly aggressive fish would do

and as noted, they will stay under 6", so they are great for smaller tanks (say 55G) where a GT would be too big . . .