Texas Cichlid Care

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"Texas" as well as most Centrals have different personalities. I've had Carpintis in community tanks very middle of the road and Cyanoguttatus which I'm breeding now that are wimps. Escondodo Carpintis has always been a serial killer at 3" or so in my fishroom. At 2.99 a pop, buy a few and let them pair off. They will most likely be interested in their own kind and leave the jag alone, which the jag probably prefers, and the numbers of fish will not let the jag home in on any individual. Extras can always be given back to the LFS and you are only out $2.99 ea. Your missing the dramatic breeding coloration of a Texas Cichlid which if you lucky can occur at 3-4".
 
my carpintis cichlid is very well behaved in my 90G tank, but there are only 4 cichlids in the tank; the carpintis shares 1/2 with a convict, and a pair of port cichlids have the other 1/2

I think they are great fish, given enough room . . . a 55G is typically not enough room for a Texas cichlid (assuming you mean h. cyanoguttatus) and in a 55G with a jag, there would most likely be conflict
 
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