that is a ~10" male jaguar cichlid(Parachromis managuensis) a.k.a. managuense. it is a 55 with 2 whisper 60s.

arent jaguars the more aggresive cichlids? anything else in the tank?

jaguars are extremely aggressive. and no, he wont let me put anything in his tank. i tried to add pirhanas and let them settle in before they were exposed to him, so i put in a tank divider. well he busted through the tank divider and killed both, they were about 3-4". even when he was 4" or so he killed everything. he goes after me when he sees me in the room, and he has actually drawn blood on me when i was re-arranging his tank once.

wow thats pretty aggresive. pirahhanas seem only aggresive when in schools, in tanks with some cichlids they are weak! :lol:

definitely weak cowards when in a new tank with a huge jag trying to kill them.

In my lfs there are 2 pirahhanas in a 50 gallon and they added a piar of convicts :o ! the pirahhans were in the corner and getting attacked if they moved, they were seperated the same day. they are only a threat in a school.

i think even in schools they arent as bad as many people think. they showed underwater footage of wild school. they dropped a dead chicken in the water. they lookd at it. one went in for a bite. nothing bad happened, so then they swarmed it. i wouldnt be surprised if a decent cichlid could woop a whole school into submission. actually i would be surprised of a cichlid couldnt, depending on the size of the school, tank, and pirhanas.

I dont think most pirahannas eat meat all the time. I dont know why they are so over exagurated. maybe hollywood or something.

I grew up watching the 70's B movies, Piranha 1, 2, etc. I thought they were so funny.

ive seen some things on pirahannas on shows where caymans and anocondas are thye main attraction. they say pirahhans kill caymans!they didnt in the show, i guess maybe they wer more peaceful pirahhans.

they definitely are made for meat. and i have seen footage of them taking down baby caiman. but i dont think they have a chance on a HEALTHY adult or even sub-adult.

i think if its a large enough school and there hungry they have a chance, IF they go for the belly area. Reptileguy can you post pics of all your tanks? ide like to see what you got.

actually that is most of them. i am down to a lot less than i used to have. i redid the rat tanks today though. here is the old setup, new is about the same except different rats is each. other pics are too big file size to load yet, until i figure out how to minimize file size. other rat cage is a 1 foot by 2 foot wire cage.

so you have the 20 gallongecko tank, the 40 gallon turtle, a 150 gallon community, 55 gallon jaguar, ? pac man, ? rat tank, and a 55 gallon bichir? thats alot! the biggest tank i ever has was a 30 gallon goldfish tank <_< . I hope tyo change that big time soon.

reptileguy im still mad at you for letting your dumb jag. kill my pirhanas those were my babies!

What? jags are cool, this ones huge!

i know, his jag. is cool, but I raised those piranhas and i thought reptileguy was going to keep them in a seperate tank.

mine: short 20long with leo, pacman, 55 w/ jag, small rat cage, 55 rat tank, 40breeder w/ turtles, betta vase w/ bamboo.

"dad's": 55 w/ bichir and others, 150, and 35 w/ 1 african cichlid since others died.
as i said, they ar emy dads tanks by ownership, but mine since i maintain, fed, and stock them. i have had tons more at one time, so this is actually little compared to about a year ago.

really? you raised them?

Yea reptileguy is my cousin

cool, what tanks do you have gynmonkey?

I have 5 tortoises- 2 yellow foots 1 red foot 1 sulcatta and 1 red foot, I had a bunch of leo's i was breeding them but have reduced my colony a lot im down to like 4, I have a 110 with discus and tetras, I have a 55 with an albino bichir like the one reptileguy has (he got it from the store I work at) and a couple other fish i have a 45 gallon reef tank and a 120 gallon salt with a huge lion a 28 inch shark and some others, I have a blue front amazon parrot I have a scarlett macaw and a bearded dragon.

I also have a pond with koi, and i have two forty breeders which are down right now but I want to put gold fish in one and dwarf gouramis in the other

thats sounds like some nice settups. I need alot of big tanks!

here are more pics of of the jag and setup.

as that a bucket in the middle? are those all fake plants?

bucket? no, red slate leaned up against the glass. all my plants are always fake, those seem to be the ones that live longer for me. i had it set up really nice, he decided to pile all the plants in that one part.

ohh, i see. thats pretty cool how he piled up all the plants. does he hide in there?

yeah, not in it but next to it, like he wants to be able rush out and chase me away.

i guess in the wild they would ambush prey with something like that.

good point.

i would like to see a video of something like that happen like on discovery channel!