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Whats your most evil fish youve ever kept

I would say my tilapia buttokoferi (sp?) they are not nicknamed sea monsters for no reason!

While Wolf Fishes (Family Erythrinidae) are particularly ruthless and efficient predators, even they have to tip the hat to Phago maculatus, the Pike Characin.

This is a fish that can NOT be kept with anything that moves. It will attack fishes several times larger than itself, and pursues its predation by biting the fins off other fishes to immobilise them before moving in for the final kill. In effect, it subjects its victims to being flayed alive before being eaten. I once wrote a piece about this critter called The Nastiest Fish In The Aquarium? (before the 2004 Board archiving) and Phago maculatus lives up to its billing in this respect. It even has a snarling grimace on its face that lets you know exactly what its intentions are ...

Do not even think of keeping this fish unless you are prepared to sacrifice feeder guppies (or sometimes larger fishes) to its appetite, and you are also prepared to watch said feeder guppies die a slow death. One reason you will struggle to find it even in specialist 'oddball' collections ...


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Dont those things get kinda big, i have caught them before

whodini is a american freshwater eel, i also have his twin zippy in my 60 gal

90g- anguilla rostrata,6 silver dollars,2 pictus catfish 60 g- anguilla rostrata 29g-4 blk skirt&4 serpia tetras, 6 harliquin resbora, 3kuhli loach 20g- 2 mountian minnows, 2 zebra danio& dojo loach , a corn snake and 2 monster dogs

Carinotetraodon lorteti

I would have to say rainbow shark as well - they can't even stand their own type let alone anything else - chase everyone in tank - even larger than themselves... serial killers.... Mine would never let anything be...

I had a Apisto pertensis female once... she would chase my peppered cories around and pluck out their eyes . Not kill them, just blind them. She was an EVIL fish...

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of my current fish it would be our texas cichlid. Although she has been known to be fed feeder guppies and decide to adopt a few for a few months.

Did you have a freshwater moray eel
those guys are aggresive and have teeth

whodini,

What kind of fish did this??

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
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whodini hates my ex Ki!! lol i know!!! but a couple yrs ago ki bought 2 freshwater eels whodini and zippy had great battles and whodini would jump out some how and we would find him on the carpet nearly dryed up, would throw him back into the tank and a little while later there he was back on the floor, soo ki brings whodini over and we put him in my 20 gal at the time. which is on a shelving unit with a shelf above the tank, well ki comes over, opens the top &amp; sticks his head under the shelf, above the tank looking straight down, saying "hi whodini" shaking his head wellll whodini didn't like that and shoots right out of the water and chomps onto ki's nose and slapping his tail all over!!! not letting go of ki nose!!!!!!!!!!!ro ki's screaming trying to get him off his nose , which........is impossible!!!! soo really the question is
Is Whodini evil or is Ki stupid???????
To this day ki has two U- shaped scares on his nose!!!

90g- anguilla rostrata,6 silver dollars,2 pictus catfish 60 g- anguilla rostrata 29g-4 blk skirt&4 serpia tetras, 6 harliquin resbora, 3kuhli loach 20g- 2 mountian minnows, 2 zebra danio& dojo loach , a corn snake and 2 monster dogs

Mine is RED Hooks. Nipping other tank mates fins.

well.. my fish are all nice and loving and cute.

but i do have a male pineapple swordtail that staked his claim to the lower lefthand corner of the tank, and if anyone comes near they get a quick nip!

oh.. and on that note i did have a quite evil Alligator Snapping turtle who ate anything i stuck in the tank:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1065763/FluffyNFish.jpg

-Chelle

Last edited by chelaine at 09-Oct-2005 01:27

*Chelle*
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I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious...

Gold Barbs. They are so mean eating the cory's food.

6 years ago i had 3 wolf fish in a 150gallon large fish tank along with a school of balas, and the wolf fish got along fine until that day i forgot to feed them
then my7 inch wulf fishes ate my 3 six inch balas


Afterwards they tried to bite me ]:| ]

Last edited by Crazy_Coyote at 09-Oct-2005 14:18

right now, tx cichlid , p.s its called edit

wolf fishes are very aggressive, i was thinking of a different fish at first, but shouldn't wolf fish be kept by themselfs.

Last edited by bettachris at 07-Oct-2005 20:19

mine is eather my convicts or my texas cichlid

Depends on your point of view doesnt it? I think fish are above or below simple morality. Evil is keeping them in with other fish they can eat, surely?

Mine is probably the Arowana, but then he never has the chance to do anything bad! He has as yet an untold capacity for evil...muhahahahahah.He looks kinda friendly if the truth be told and he never nips me, so were buddies. Unless hes a total coward of course

What aro do u have?my most evil fish...gotta be my jardini.