Yup! Angelfish are too nasty for a general community whenever they spawn (which is basically 24/7/365), while discus are too timid and fussy with their diet, plus pretty sensitive too.
Don't rams and cockatoo cichlids fall more under a similar category to discus? That is, too sensitive and fussy for a general community.
That's one category you may know of species I don't in. All the South/Central cichlids I have heard of (eartheater, convict, red devil, jaguar, wolf, green terror, oscar, rams, discus, etc) seem to fall on one end of that range, not really in the middle (and for many it's b/c of the all too common spawns).
That I can agree on. 100 percent.
With convicts, kribs, and similar, there will be eggs and/or fry involved the vast majority of the time no? That has a pretty big impact from what I hear.
If kept solo, there won’t be babies. Sometimes eggs if a female.
Rams and apistos are fussy about water parameters (not Bolivian rams), but when in proper setups are very easy and very peaceful. Most of the dwarf cichlids like dwarf acaras are very calm, even when breeding.
Generally, SA cichlids are less aggressive than CAs (with notable exceptions: P Bass, Festae, GT). Most aren’t as bad. Oscars are hit or miss, while cichlids like blue acaras, chocolates, and severums are not very mean at all. Geos tend to be hit or miss based on species.
Most CAs are meaner. Some nicer ones are rainbow cichlids and nanolutae. Many mid tier (range from relatively peaceful to very mean) are Jack Dempsey, Central American acaras, convicts, Vieja, and heryicthys, to name a few.
Generally these are the meanest:
SA: P bass, some oscars, festae, green terror
CA: Any parachromis (dovii, jag, etc), amphilophus cichlids, black nasty/Haitian cichlids, Cuban cichlids, some viejas, Trimac, and the cocktail known as the flowerhorn
African: Jewel, mbuna, Butties
Of course, all of this is influenced by tank size and tankmates.
