Three year old jaguar cichlid

[Tawny88]

Hi there, this is my husband‘s mail Jaguar Cichlid. He is a little over two years old and my husband seems to think he’s a bit on the small side because he’s about 8 inches long when we anticipated him to be about a foot at this stage of development.
We’ve had him since he was a juvenile baby, about 3 inches long and over the years he has encountered several potential tank mates, which have all resulted in him, mercilessly torturing them until the other Fish just gives up and sit at the top of the aquarium.
I tried to pair them with a female Cuban around the same size and he almost tore her entire arm off. It was terrible.
Currently, I have a stipulation with my husband, he wants to graduate his jaguar to a larger size tank, but I simply don’t wanna just look at that Fish in such a large tank all by his lonesome I believe it would be much more more captivating and interesting to look at if he had a female mate.
I’m sure you know my next question. Is it at all possible?????
If it is, and someone knows any variation or way to get this fish to learn how to coexist just like any other fish in the wild. None of these fish in the wild are alone in a tank. Let’s keep it real. They know how to integrate if they are shown properly although my husband doesn’t believe to think so.
If anyone has any advice to help, it would be more than greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

He’s bullied all his previous tank mates so it’s unlikely that he wants a girlfriend. If you do want to try to make it work without the female being killed then I would suggest using a divider and getting a female smaller than he is, though you should only do that after he’s in a larger tank. Three years old and only 8 inches is on the small side yeah but I think it’s due to his tank size, it looks a little small. He’s a great looking male.

 

[duanes]

The entire territory of the tank belongs to him, and he alone, so its doubtful he will ever allow another tank mate, especially.....any other predatory, or similar looking cichlid to share it.
It is instinctually programed to vanquish any other cichlid that even remotely resembles him, and live in that tiny amount of space.
So a similar looking cuban or any other Parachromis added would be doomed.
The territory of an alpha cichlid such as yours in nature, might be minimally 10 ft by 10 ft sq, and allow no other cichlid other than an immediately copasetic, and hot to trot female in.

 

[HybridFinatic]

definitely could use a tank upgrade. Still a younger fish, has very plenty of growing to do just needs to expansion to really do so.