whos the king aggressor?

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ok this threads gonna be a little difficult unless someone has owned one of each but try this:

whats the most aggressive fish out there?

im thinking tilapia butterkoferi in second but probably Hemibagrus Wyckii is the nastiest bugger ive ever heard off. its said they are the only fish not afraid of man. and in the wild the live on giant gourami!!!

any other suggestions for the aggressor hall of fame?
 
Most aggressive fish I have ever kept was a Wyckii catfish. Thing definitely had some anger management issues. Large Dovii Cichids can also be pretty ruthless.
 
wyckii for sure. took a perfect sized chunk from between my fingers during a water change. attacked everything ruthlessly all night long. he didnt stay long. grew like a mo fo too.
 
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Nastiest I've kept was Hemibagrus Wyckioides (Asian Redtail). Before I sold mine, he'd racked up a pretty big kill list. Cleared a tank full of C.A/S.A cichlids (red devils, festae, managuensis, midas, dovii, umbee, name it and he killed it at some point). At 12 inches, it even killed a slightly larger H. Wyckii... they were dividered in a 90g, eventually the inevitable happened, someone knocked over the divider overnight and I found a dead wyckii and a slightly battered ARTC. I was pretty pissed, the wyckii cost me a good chunk of money. I had a 16 inch male dovii in solitary confinement in a 180g tank, and since the ARTC was outgrowing the 90 it was in (IIRC about 1.5 feet at the time), I decided to try adding it to the dovii's tank over a day under my supervision. The cat wrestled with the dovii immediately after being added to the tank, after about 5 min of liplocking the 2 left each other alone. Phone rang, went upstairs, ended up chatting. About 5 minutes into the conversation, I heard a loud thump, a bunch of splashing followed by another thump. I ran downstairs, the ARTC had the dovii pinned in the top corners of the tank, and was repeatedly slamming it out of the water into the coverglass. No serious damage was done, just some fin rips and missing scales on the dovii. Sold the dovii to my friend the next day and kept the ARTC by itself in the 180.

Wyckii can be evil as well, but IME wyckioides are just that little bit worse.
 
my friend's manaquense was about a foot long and it jumped out of the tank to bite his thumb when he was opening the lid. good sized teeth marks.
 
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