(November 17, 2014 at 3:50 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yeah, if they don't just die they'll kill each other (and to an extent I keep them precisely because they do). I refer to them as my freshwater wolves. I used to have a 150 gal salt tank but when I moved up here to kentucky just keeping it warm was too much of an investment for me. I left it in St. Pete. My little sister says all that's left are the shrimp...lol.
True, true. I used to have a 55 gal cichlid tank, and I carefully selected by sex and species, jumped through all the hoops to try and keep 'em all docile. Despite all that, there still were a few killings. For plankton-eaters, they certainly can be piscacidal.

(One bit of advice that I did not follow was to overcrowd them in order to prevent them from establishing territory. I resorted to rearranging the structure every couple of weeks instead.)
I'd love to fill up the 90 gal tank I have now and put something interesting in it, but the property manager would have kittens over that. (I came to learn that "Aquariums OK" means "Aquariums up to 15 gallons OK").