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Nathan1989

Nathan1989

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So I thought I'd give target fish a go to bring the devil round. I was recommended that I give a school of silver dollars ago that are bigger than my devil. Well it lasted about 5 mins before u had to remove the dollars scales were flying and I didn't want him to kill the dollars. I returned the dollars and was offered to try rainbow barbs as a faster option but I'm not sure he will tolerate anything now. At 4 inches is this the norm for red devils
 
Nathan1989 said:
So I thought I'd give target fish a go to bring the devil round. I was recommended that I give a school of silver dollars ago that are bigger than my devil. Well it lasted about 5 mins before u had to remove the dollars scales were flying and I didn't want him to kill the dollars. I returned the dollars and was offered to try rainbow barbs as a faster option but I'm not sure he will tolerate anything now. At 4 inches is this the norm for red devils
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The Red Devil has claimed the aquarium for it's territory so anything added will be treated as a threat.
 
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Yeah, I’ve had this happen a lot. Looks like your stuck with a very normal, very mean red devil. (Most Red Devils are jerks.) You could look for a mate in the classifieds, but odds are he/she is going to eat the target fish your looking at, those guys don’t have the hardware to compete and it looks like your fish owns the whole tank currently. Mates are just as likely to cause trouble, but at least they have a fighting chance if they are relatively capable and you do some rearranging just prior to adding the new one. Have a divider ready as well, alway helpful when you chuck a couple murderers in an enclosed space. Good luck. Hope you can work something out.
 
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Yeah I've come to term with just having he/she in a lone tank!! But I'm sure it will be worth it with a great characteristic fish
 
It's not about the size of the cat, it's about the potential size of the Amphilophus, and its territorial needs.
Since it will reach between 10" and 14" , it will need "minimum" a 150 -220 gallon tank to have enough room tp share with other cichlids.
I always figure a cichlid needs 10 gallons per inch of its adult size (inches of length, width and height added together to determine tank size).
It has already indicated to you, by its aggression, that your tank is too small.
Aggression is almost always a sign, that the tank is not adequate.
 
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I've just watched a video of two fully grown Amphilophus sharing an aquarium with plenty of malawis and algae eaters in a 75 gallon all living peacefully and messaged the lady and she says their is no agression in the tank at all. I know a fully grown Amphilophus will need this tank to itself but at this age the tank is plenty big enough
 
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