Actually, smartass, the midas and texas are BABIES who coexist together RIGHT NOW because they are babies and have not grown in to their aggression. It is literally a very temporary grow out tank for a few months until I split them up into individual tanks because I know what I'm doing and I know it would never work as adults.
Agree.
How cichlids can be kept as juvies, is a far cry from how they can be kept as adults (or even semi-adults).
I have seen many exasperated posts where a community has been fine for 8 (pick a number) months, and suddenly over night all hell broke loose.
There seems to be a snap moment when cichlids hit territorial maturity, that is often totally opposite of how they have existed for a year, or months.
And that maturity moment is often different from one species to the next.
As juvies there is a safety in numbers instinctual mind set where different species shoal and live together copasetically.
But... once a certain maturity sets in, that entire way of being goes out the window, and a once peaceful tank, turns into a territorial bloodbath, with often one alpha left alive the next day.
If you are an experienced cichlid aquarist, there are subtle signs that might indicate the need to spit up the groups into already set up tanks just for that purpose.
If not, the blood bath scenario is all too common.
