vampire teeth cichlids

[candidpets]

I was told cichlids some of them like princess of bicardi or whatver have fangs like actual fangs for tanking chunks out of fish, the only cichlids i knew that had this that were small.


Was just curious has anyone had experience with such fish? also kept pirana or wolf fish? can the teeth cause the same type of damage?


I got 4 before i even knew this.

 

[ehh]

If you can see their teeth, they can do some damage. This guys had drew my blood a couple times and you can see his doesn't exactly have the longest teeth. I can't even imagine getting bit by a jag or dovii....

 

[candidpets]

yeah those are big fish tho these are tiny 8 cm only

 

[duanes]

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[candidpets]

the first the third and fourth and nasty nasty set of teeth i thought they were another species what are they???

 

[duanes]

The first pic is a cichlid from Madagascar, Paretroplus maculatus, It is a molluscavore and uses those can opener like teeth to extract snail flesh from shells.

The 3rd and 4th pics are a predatory cichlid from Lake Tanganyika called Lepidiolamprologus elongatus.

 

[Bryony]

My young female trimac cichlid has a small bite for an aggressive cichlid. She took chunks out of 3 platies and fire mouth juvenile my mother bought me, even a blood parrot roughly her size ended up with its eyes missing. So I imagine her bite is painful if not worse if you're another fish. And yes she has teeth. The only things she hasn't killed are my pleco, olive nerite, and apple snail. Anything else without armor, shells, or spikes is screwed. So I'm done with tankmates.