Yea that vid is like a decade old, and that tank looks really small for those fish.
Looks like a Flowerhorn with them. I also seen a video with a grown Flowerhorn beating the crap out of a grown Buttikoferi. I did try to find it again, no luck.
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Looks like a Flowerhorn with them. I also seen a video with a grown Flowerhorn beating the crap out of a grown Buttikoferi. I did try to find it again, no luck.
I can believe that. Sometimes the tables are turned.
Apparently the tank was the Flowerhorn's territory and the Butti was just introduced.
Of all the fish I owned, I'd say a Red Devil is the most aggressive. Pound for pound, it'd probably be a convict. If they got the size of dovis, we'd have a new apex predator in the hobby.
For sheer aggression and viciousness, pound-for pound my vote goes with the male Auratus cichlid but they only grow to about 5 inches. If full grown adults of all the species listed are housed together, the Dovii easily kills every fish on this list. An adult Dovii would also quickly dispatch any adult piranha.
I believe the Dovii would be in trouble especially if it tried to lip lock any adult piranha especially a full grown Rhombeus Black Piranha.
Of course a Dovii would be in trouble if he tried to lip lock an adult Piranha, but that is highly unlikely. 99.9% of the time the enormous Dovii would ram it and bite it, removing huge chunks with each bite. The Piranha would respond by dying or if it was lucky by fleeing from the scene.
