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i to used to think that bas were real plasid,untill i bred my own ay home,and finally got the good strain of them.then i found out what true blues were like..well to be honest they are all around the same size but the bas are just a little fatter,but in terms of aggression,the bas are way ahead of the texas,AT THIS STAGE,me and longhair have already talked about this in pm,obvously,just because of how much bigger the texas get the ba,ill have to move them eventully,but they are fine for now,and keeping in mind,that the texas have already had a spwan,and the bas were still in charge,honestly wi,you wont realize just how nasty the ba can be untill you get a pair like ours,more like convicts,as longhair says,me personally,the 2 i have,more like red devils i rekon,if they did get a big size ,and say teeth,plane out,they would be killers....also i rekon if i put anything else in the 89gal,they would get flogged,its only that the texas are agrresive and smart,plus plenty of room,they know when to get out the way,and deal a bit of aggression back to the baonly that is why they havent been harrased or bullied..YET.so yeah at this stage still ok,but ive got my divider sitting behind my tank ready for any aggresion that gets to bad,so im prepaired for it,if it does happen,but im more worried about the texas getting hurt than the ba,for now anyway,in say a year,my money would be on the texas..they are big and nasty as you said...
yes i miss my flowerhorn dearly,i happy with the new texas,but i was just expecting something more from the texas,aggresion,playfullness,but there nothing like my ol fh girl,she went the next day after i traded her upbut she is in with a huge make so im told,and beleave me,it would want to be big and strong,that fh,was undeafeted.nothing i tryed with her could stand up,if i told the list of fish i tryed,your head wil spin

i havent read this post all the way through, but to me it looks like you just swapped a flowehorn for a breeding pair of texas cichlids, and now would like to put a pair of non-breeding, mild mannered cichlids with a pair of hormonal teenage bikers.
Prerpare for peices of acara..

the crappy blue acaras sold in lfs,i aggree,id never put em in with a texas pair,but mild cichlids these blueys arnt by no means,they can plane out be killers!peaces of acara,i find that funny,ask longhair what his and my blue acaras are like,no joke they are like convicts,so far the ba have been incharge of the texas all the way,and the teaxs had a spawn too,and this did not worry the ba,trust me,it will be a while b4 the texas are in charge,in fact the way my ba are growing and spawing,the texas will never be the bossesyou have no idea how nasty TRUE BLUE ACARAS ARE,thats the very reason why they are in with texas,these 2 im talking of,use to team attack my large green terror male,read all the posts above then you will understand..

Riiiiiight - pretty much based on your tank size alone, which would only just house a pair of texas, i cant see how a pair of acaras (which now aparantly are breeding aswell?) would be ideal..it's not something you've had to do because something has happened in the tank, its something you are choosing to do, aparantly based on a certain "strain" of blue acara that you aparantly are buying. Are you sure they're not Green Terrors?
I wonder which you will end up swapping back first..

I know you might find it hard to believe, but it is a truth, these blue acaras are pretty much level with convicts on aggression. Green terrors are a different size league. The precaution about the texas has been heeded, he has a tank seperator just in case. I too agree the texas will eventually outstrip the acaras probably both for aggression and fighting ability, probably making the housing situation non viable over the long term.

Im really not kidding when I say my adult male blue acara and an equivalent sized convict would probably fight in a way that the bets would be 50/50. You have to see them to believe them. Mine start beating up on adult firemouths and other comperable cichlids at 4 months, and ive had to relocate them several times . Thats a two inch fish beating up a 6 inch fish. In seconds.

On paper it doesnt sound feasable, but in reality, well, you just have to see it!

Ok, i am still not seeing the point in having one tank, suitable for one pair of fish, with a tank divider in it, so you can have another pair of fish.
Setup another tank for a pair of blue acaras, surely?!

well said lh,theres no divider in there,and i havent had to use it once...its just incase,u really have to see these fish to understand,the 4 of them are gettin on great....althought the ba are still incharge