What is the smartest CA/SA cichlid? In your opinion??
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First thought was a Flowerhorn.... Something about the hybridization I think. Like a mutt is generally thought of as a better pet quality dog then a tight bred, inbred, pure breed. A Flowerhorn was by far the smartest individual fish I have owned. But then does the psychotic behavior out way / counteract intelligence?
As a BREED though I personally think the Tilapia Buttikoferi. I think there reasoning abilities and problem solving are off the charts from what I've seen.
As a BREED though I personally think the Tilapia Buttikoferi. I think there reasoning abilities and problem solving are off the charts from what I've seen.
I think
duanes
already nailed it 8 years ago, Nicaraguense. What a fascinating relationship.
duanes
already nailed it 8 years ago, Nicaraguense. What a fascinating relationship.
if the damn severums are playing chess, my question is: gold or green? (or red spotted?) I gotta know what kind to get eh
My wild caught dovii amazed me. I'm not saying they're the smartest but they out smarted me, lol. Due to rearranging i crammed a pair over a foot long in a 4foot tank with under gravel filter telling myself this is only for a day or two. They got along so good i left them. They started the spawning behavior and had all gravel piled like mountains on either side of tank. This is survival strategy to increase fry survival keeping them in pit and patrolling and protecting. Needless to say all the wigglers were getting sucked through under gravel grates and shooting out bubblers. Looked like black speckles raining throughout tank. I didnt have sponge filter and knew hooking canister was certain doom for fry so i left it. The next morning i noticed in the middle of the valley they created the female built a little rock pile approximately the size of base ball or little bigger like an island on bare white filter and had all wigglers on top. She would patrol the boundry of the hill and snatch up those inching their way down. The male would find periodically one baby blown out bubbler and bring it over to pile. Never under normal cercomstances would fish display their young on a pedestal making them viable to predators but this pair was desperate and figured out how to preserve their fry.
dovii are definitely very intelligent - their symbiotic relationship with nicaraguense gives bonus points.
still doesn't play chess tho
Depending which theory you subscribe to, one of the big drivers of intelligence is living in a complex social community eg Apes, Dolphin, Elephant, Wolves, Parrots ect, ect. From observations Thorichthys, Amphilophus citrinellus and a few others certainly live in fairly complex groups.
