This question comes up a lot about aggression!

[Dragonfirehead]

It seems like top 3 always been

red devil/Midas
Dovii
Umbee/beani
My experiences with cichlids majority are Red Devils, jags, Cubans
What's your personal experience?

 

[Frank Castle]

female Green Terrors, Jaguars, Motaguensis, male Amphilophus of any species, breeding Convicts, Buttekofferi, IME

 

[Stanzzzz7]

There are far to many variables to give a definitive answer to this question.

 

[juddb]

Cichlids are very territorial and aggressive for the most part. From convicts to umbees.

 

[Covetous]

I'm not 100% sure what the OP is actually asking here. I'm gonna guess that your asking what is the most aggressive cichlid in our opinions? But there is a sticky here at the top of the page that everyone has answered that already. Lots of good info, Check it out.


http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...-ca-cichlid-in-your-experience-opinion.14881/

 

[dan518]

In the wild orange midas live in deeper water than the barred midas, they have to do this cus if they lived in the shallow areas there just easy targets for birds and other predators, in order to get the territory of there choice they have to be far more aggressive then the barred variety, yet this behaviour doesn't come through when we keep them in what is essentially a puddle.
Then if you take the tank size we put our fish in, someone has a pair of convicts in a standard 180 gal those fish have 4 x the width and 12 x the length to house a pair of dovii in something similar your going to need a 24 by 8 ft tank how aggressive those dovii will be is any guess.
There are just to many variables between how a fish acts in nature to how it acts in the confines of a tank that make this question pointless, the best we can do is just go on a fish by fish bases.

 

[Frank Castle]

In the wild orange midas live in deeper water than the barred midas, they have to do this cus if they lived in the shallow areas there just easy targets for birds and other predators, in order to get the territory of there choice they have to be far more aggressive then the barred variety, yet this behaviour doesn't come through when we keep them in what is essentially a puddle.
Then if you take the tank size we put our fish in, someone has a pair of convicts in a standard 180 gal those fish have 4 x the width and 12 x the length to house a pair of dovii in something similar your going to need a 24 by 8 ft tank how aggressive those dovii will be is any guess.
There are just to many variables between how a fish acts in nature to how it acts in the confines of a tank that make this question pointless, the best we can do is just go on a fish by fish bases.

this is a very interesting read....i did not know this about the different color variations of Midas, but it makes total sense - like why albinos rarely survive in the wild, they have no camouflage

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Agreed.Good post Dan.