Most Aggressive Fish?

[AshleyT]

Just abit bored lol and was just wondering what people think is the most aggresive fish for an aquarium?

 

[Ruskull]

Just abit bored lol and was just wondering what people think is the most aggresive fish for an aquarium?

Gold (Three Spot) Gourami male. Mine chased everything I put in the tank. I'd rate them just below Cichlids...........

You want aggression? Try putting 3 of them in a 20 gallon tank. That's not for me though, I didn't get into fishkeeping to watch that crap.

 

[AshleyT]

I don't want aggression I was just wondering what people thought was the most aggressive fish to have lol

 

[Cazgar]

You seem to ask a lot about aggressive fish, piranhas etc
Are you wanting to set up an aggressive fish tank?

 

[AshleyT]

One day I will have a piranha tank, and I don't no tbh lol more aggresive fish amuse me more they seem to atract me more than peaceful ones do

 

[onidrase]

depends on what kind of aggression you're looking for. Bettas are probably the most aggressive if you put two males in the same cup. convicts and salvinis are really aggressive if you're looking at smaller fish with enough attitude to take down larger fish. you can also look into larger characins and stuff, cichlids aren't the only ones with daddy issues. Red tail catfishes will eat just about anything, but that doesn't mean they're aggessive. Clown Knife fish are also quite mean. the list goes on.

 

[AshleyT]

Ino I'm just lookin to find the daddy of all aggresive fish

 

[onidrase]

One day I will have a piranha tank, and I don't no tbh lol more aggresive fish amuse me more they seem to atract me more than peaceful ones do

if you want a piranha tank, just get a bunch of bleeding heart tetras. Pretty much the same thing only less messy, smaller, and easier to feed. Piranhas are actually really, really boring and unrewarding fish to keep imo.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Bull sharks....... Gonna need a large tank for them though

 

[AshleyT]

Never heard of them to be kept in a home tank lol don't they need lint the size of the sea hahaha

 

[dbanner]

Dovii cichlids.. Also known as the wolf cichlid. And they have made a name for themselves which is "the tank buster" because they ram the tank and are so big and powerful they have been known on a few occasions to break the glass. The most aggressive cichlid hands down. A male can get to around 24-28 inches. It's also rated as most aggressive cichlid in the top 21 list. Absolute beasts.... A piranha to them is like a guppy

 

[onidrase]

Dovii cichlids.. Also known as the wolf cichlid. And they have made a name for themselves which is "the tank buster" because they ram the tank and are so big and powerful they have been known on a few occasions to break the glass. The most aggressive cichlid hands down. A male can get to around 24-28 inches. It's also rated as most aggressive cichlid in the top 21 list. Absolute beasts.... A piranha to them is like a guppy

I've never heard the term "tank buster" used on a fish literally meaning that the fish breaks the tank. It's always used as a term to describe a fish that is common in trade and grows to a size too big for a common person to keep in their home. (oscars, pengasius catfish, redtail catfish, shovelnoses, wolf/jag cichlids, arowanas....... too many to name)

I'm a little skeptical on if a wolf or jaguar cichlid can really break the glass of a tank, granted it's in a properly sized tank, in which the glass could quite easily be half an inch thick or more. There'd be no way a fish (unless it's a dinofish with a rock for a forehead or some sort of space age fish that has gained the technology to forge steel helmets used to escape from human captivity, which is unlikely because any fish that smart would know that it'd just be screwed once the tank is broken) could break the glass without seriously injuring itself, and even then I don't think the glass would shatter, it'd take a lot of impact to break a tank that holds 150+ gallons of water no problem...

 

[dbanner]

I know what you mean, I thought the same. Iv read a couple of cases online of it happening. Crazy stuff. I mentioned it to a friend of mine that works in an aquarium store and he was saying they are the most aggressive and most powerful fish he and his work mates have ever come across. Shocking

 

[Joanne_]

(unless it's a dinofish with a rock for a forehead or some sort of space age fish that has gained the technology to forge steel helmets used to escape from human captivity, which is unlikely because any fish that smart would know that it'd just be screwed once the tank is broken)

I agree LOL, that's funny !

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I'd imagine a Goliath Tigerfish (from the Zaire River, as shown in "River Monsters") is up there.