what in your opinion is the most aggressive cichlid
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Pansies? are you kidding me? Most of you think their wussies? lol
I guess I am the only one with a psychotic one. Here is a video to prove it, the red devil's lip was pulled off after the video.
The fight starts around 30 seconds
To ALL YOU WHO THINK JACK DEMPSEY'S ARE PANSIES WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW....
[video=youtube;CHmolI8AXnU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHmolI8AXnU[/video]
This wasn't the only dempsey I had that was killer, my old male JD snapped my dovii's jaw.
That's a nice looking Dempsey. Hopefully that devil doesn't end up killing him. I've had fish twenty years, and had Dempseys 4 or 5 different times. Every time they were pansies, and regretted getting them. When they fight they look bad ass, but when they lose they lose their nice dark colors and pin their fins to their body. Some fish can't thrive if they aren't the boss. Red devils thrive when picked on. It's like they eat more then everyone else waiting to get revenge by growing fast and over powering other fish..lol Quite devilish if you ask me.
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Ha! My Dempsey was a pansy too. That video doesn't make sense to me, unless that Dempsey is a female and it laid eggs (which the gill plate does have the indicative blue sheen of a female, but I'm no expert or even apprentice on sexing those fish).
That's nuts how mad that Dempsey is! But, like the boxer it's named after, the Dempsey fights a fair fight. Convicts, much akin to their respective nomenclature, fight with prison rules. I had convicts that wouldn't lip lock, but would instead just bite the sides and fins of fish twice the size of them, and then retreat somewhere that the bigger fish couldn't go. Convicts are just plain BRUTAL. I remember I had a 3" male convict bite the whiskers of a huge pictus catfish I had in my 125 gallon SA/CA community tank, and the catfish let out a bubbling yell. I think that was the last straw, and I gave the convict back to the place I bought it from.
The cichlid that started it all for me was the bolivian ram. I unknowingly bought a pair for my community tank, and I had since only kept livebearers and tetra. It was weird seeing fish with personality, and most of all, fish that would actually USE the decor that I blew money on for the tank. Fish before cichlids were such boring impersonable creatures to me. Tetra just sort of seize their way around an aquarium, with quick jutted motions, and I never knew if they were thriving or dying.
That's nuts how mad that Dempsey is! But, like the boxer it's named after, the Dempsey fights a fair fight. Convicts, much akin to their respective nomenclature, fight with prison rules. I had convicts that wouldn't lip lock, but would instead just bite the sides and fins of fish twice the size of them, and then retreat somewhere that the bigger fish couldn't go. Convicts are just plain BRUTAL. I remember I had a 3" male convict bite the whiskers of a huge pictus catfish I had in my 125 gallon SA/CA community tank, and the catfish let out a bubbling yell. I think that was the last straw, and I gave the convict back to the place I bought it from.
The cichlid that started it all for me was the bolivian ram. I unknowingly bought a pair for my community tank, and I had since only kept livebearers and tetra. It was weird seeing fish with personality, and most of all, fish that would actually USE the decor that I blew money on for the tank. Fish before cichlids were such boring impersonable creatures to me. Tetra just sort of seize their way around an aquarium, with quick jutted motions, and I never knew if they were thriving or dying.
I watched a breeding pair of 1-2 inch Convicts fight and scare off an 8 inch Flowerhorn in a LFS. The convict male slammed himself into the Flowerhorn so hard that the Flowerhorn just went all dazed. "Wtf just hit me?"
Devil got murdered one night, his lips were gone and his stomach was eaten off. This dempsey also beat up a dovii, umbee, midas, convict pair, and even a buttikoferi. This dempsey did end up getting killed by the butti after a couple months.
@Poopsmart that dempsey never laid eggs, she is just a psycho fish. Why is it so hard for you to believe that the dempsey is just crazy? Every cichlid has their own personality meaning some are meaner than others. Convicts are weak IME, they are bluffers not hitters.
Convicts are the rats of the cichlid world, but I still love them.
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