Red Devils

[daklinz112588]

has anyone had any experiance with these fish i have heard there extremily aggressive which i find awsome but i wanna hear some advice as in Price (american money) good size tank is it a brakish fish

 

[guppymonkey]

Red Devils are a member of the cichlid family and are amazingly aggressive especially when breeding. Everyone assumes that oscars are aggressive (complete lie) but the Red Devil is about ten times more aggressive than any oscar. I rescued one and temporarily had it in with my oscar and the red devil had the oscar hiding in the top corner of the tank.

Red Devils grow to be about a foot long and need at least a 55 gallon tank. They are NOT a live feeder. Sometimes people will give them feeder fish (which is a terrible idea for almost all species of fish) but that will not give this fish a complete diet. They are best off being kept on a diet of cichlid pellets, freeze dried and frozen foods. They should have very frequent water changes (at least once a week if not more often) as they are messy like most larger cichlids.

oh, and they are not brackish at all.

 

[Angel Lady]

I have one and I can tell you one thing. It is a monster it whipped the fins off from my oscar I bought this fish because I felt sorry for the water conditions that the fish was in. Now mine lives in a 55 gallon all to his self I cant even add a pleco in with him, He whips them also, I hope this helps do not buy one of them not unless you want to give it a 55 gallon tank all to its self,,, Because this is what you are looking at with the red devils, I think they came down the river with horns myself...

 

[freddyk]

least a 55 gallon tank

For the first couple of years, but this tank will be outgrown eventually.

 

[daklinz112588]

i know its very aggressve im very experianced with the chichleds and i wanted piranas or this thing but if i get a small one and put it in my 46G tank as a small fish it wont grow to its complete size cuz fish grow the amount of room they have unless im wronge

 

[guppymonkey]

i know its very aggressve im very experianced with the chichleds and i wanted piranas or this thing but if i get a small one and put it in my 46G tank as a small fish it wont grow to its complete size cuz fish grow the amount of room they have unless im wronge

Completely wrong! Total urban legend! Its the equivalent of saying that a baby will stay a baby if kept in a crib or a dog will stay a puppy if you keep it in the closet all its life. Just because you can harmfully stunt (cripple) its growth and does not mean it will live that way happily. By keeping a fish in a tiny tank its organs will grow to normal size but its body never will and it will die a slow and painful death. All stunted fish die early and usually are malformed from the torture.

 

[freddyk]

Completely wrong! Total urban legend! Its the equivalent of saying that a baby will stay a baby if kept in a crib or a dog will stay a puppy if you keep it in the closet all its life. Just because you can harmfully stunt (cripple) its growth and does not mean it will live that way happily. By keeping a fish in a tiny tank its organs will grow to normal size but its body never will and it will die a slow and painful death. All stunted fish die early and usually are malformed from the torture.

A little melodramatic, but close enough - and anything that scares people away from those kinds of practices works for me