Meanest, most ruthless fish.

Whats the most badass fish, fresh or salt, that you have ever kept? Im looking for examples of fish you have actually owned, as fish dont always follow the rules .


Heres mine begining with the meanest:

1, Niger Trigger... utterly heartless

2, Male Green Terror Cichlid

3, Oscar

4, Male Convict Cichlid


Jay

This has been done before i think, good question still for me Mystus Wyckii, we had a 30" specimen that ripped a plug off the wall!!!!! natives in Thailand actually think it is possessed, they mighten be far wrong .. no contest.. may be a shark but thats it

1.ex cichlasoma festae
2.1 pair of convicts
3.jaguar cichlids

flowerhorn(nuts)
redhead cichlid

hands down a male dovii I once had.Satan in a fish.If i had him still I would pit him against all the above in the same tank and he wouldn't even have a scratch. even killed his mate while they had fry in a tank on their own together.I called him fred west,or fred for short.Nutcase, but i loved him, in the end he commmited suicide by breaking his tank while I was at work,I lived over a harley davidson shop and they rang me to tell me that water was lashing down on their more expensive bikes.hows that for a fish kkeping story.

tiger shovel nose cat fish not that big one i had but still ate 2 fairly big black ghost knife fish s in one nite

dovi is top of the food chain within cichlids,they are pure hunting machines and will kill anything that gets in its way!!!

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this is a peacock bass,they sell these im some lfs here,i know someone who has a 3 foot one and you wouldnt put your hand in!!!

Gavin wrote:

hands down a male dovii I once had.Satan in a fish.If i had him still I would pit him against all the above in the same tank and he wouldn't even have a scratch. even killed his mate while they had fry in a tank on their own together.I called him fred west,or fred for short.Nutcase, but i loved him, in the end he commmited suicide by breaking his tank while I was at work,I lived over a harley davidson shop and they rang me to tell me that water was lashing down on their more expensive bikes.hows that for a fish kkeping story.

Epic. The most badass fish ever takes some of the most badass bikes ever with him on the way out. I would love to keep one. Havnt the room for a tank big enough to be dedicated to just that one fish though .

Jay

A pair of Neolamprologus brichardi when they pair off and spawn,can be instant death for other tank mates.
The same can be said for the Neo-tretocephalus when a pair have spawned.

light weights al! you and your tang world!

let's hear it DDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
ahem.

boesemani rainbow (tanx joey) laugh all you like but he is a big meany

Exodon's

Puddlefish wrote:

Exodon's

that's my next plan for the 240, a load of exodon paradoxus (bucktooth tetra)
should be cool...


by far the most evil fish i ever had was a redline snakehead, total psychopath
he never had a tank mate for more than about 3 seconds...
went for my hand a few times aswell
he broke his back trying to escape from the tank
mad fish, swore to myself i'd get another one again at some stage in the future

Des

Well, there are the obvious dovii and the rest of the larger cichlid group, and ones that are usually kept alone.
But I'll ignore them here as being big and brutish in the first place may have an unfair advantage in this compo.

Instead, for shear non-stop manic persistent badass (and infuriating) behaviour....

tops...a Neetroplus nematopus.
Even when chaising this rather fast 4 inch monster, it was attempting to attack other fish (including some bigger bruiser-cichlids). I can't write here what names I called it.

In a Malawi tank.....despite having a number of full sized chipoki ruling the roost in one tank, a Melanochromis exasperatus and a M. johanni decided they had more aggressive energy than the rest (it looked like two whirl-winds spinning around the bottom of every fish)

just came across this on youtube..
some nasty looking fella's...

utter crap

convict84 wrote:

utter crap

well i never said it was great!!
why do you think its crap?

Suprised to see an oscar in amongst those.. and not a buttie or a wyckii etc.... some stunning specimens there tho..

convict84 wrote:

utter crap

sorry Sean, no offense intended but have you ever had a channa micropeltes (red line snakehead)
a well aggressive, evil fish

i've had or still have no.'s 9, 8, 6, 4, 2 & 1

all mentalers

put an adult dovii in with an adult red line snakehead or african tiger fish and see what happens...

is that vid pound for pound? or just assumption on the basis of size

Couldn't pass this up, I bet the dead Fish thought the Puffer was Ruthless and mean.

www.evilsunday.com/deadly-puffer-fish-kills-big-fish/




Kev.

Har har and i bet the girl who took the picture is keeping her distance!

Good one Kev.

The video.....quite interesting them 'top 10' thingys. (I see loads of them on cable TV....beam me up scottie if I have to see another)
How were the hit-points assigned?

Many of them are well known bruiser cichlids.....probably get into anyones top-1o by being the nice fish bought and shoved in a 3 foot community tank {"oooh, Mary my new fish are rather pugnacious!"}
Most of them cichlids (maybe all of them) are true bruisers and big, but they don't half go down the pan if anything turns back on them. They are all very nicely top-dog when they are clearly still top-dog....a sharp wake-up call and many of them stay down. Well....that's just the same old story with bullies anyway.
Discus may be more persistently aggressive than some of the cichlids there....but don't carry the weight and mouth size to do much damage in the battles they may start.

All the top fish in the vid are biggies.....to which fish are they relatively guaged?
How would they come off if they decided to pick on an aussie lungfish? (No. 1 might be in a good position because of its jaw design....it would need to make sure first attack counts though).

Although not a bruiser as such, large hymenophysa tiger loaches (they probably changed scientific name)can show a never ending ruthless aggression.

But when it comes to fish-fear.......please don't anyone ever offer me homemade fish-cakes made out of anything that tastes like fish. That would be ruthless and pretty mean.

ian

Meanest fish I've come across is Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus. Horrible demeanor once they reach a certain size. There are definitely meaner out there though.

I also had a pair of clarkii clowns that bit the arms off me any time I put my hand in the tank. Looked like I had ringworm after a while with all of the little round marks.