Need suggestion to stock my tank.

B

BayBayBay

AC Members
Sep 24, 2004
43
0
0
I have a 180 gallons and I have following fish in the tank right now. I am thinking about getting couple more fish to put in. Any suggestion?

1- Red Terror - 2.5 inches now(max 12"+)
1- Green Terror - 2.5 inches now(max 12")
1- Midas - 2 inches now(max 12")
1- Jack Dampsey - 2 inches now(max 10")
1- Albino Oscar - 3 inches now(max 15")
 
I like that you acknowledge your fish will not be 2" forever. What else do you want to add? A few more oscars? Clean-up crew? I like having some smaller fish that will someday become part of "natural selection". before my puffer I had blue skirts, danios and barbs in my 55 with the cichlids. one might come up missing now and then but they were better than goldfish stinking up the tank. now that the puffer's in there no small fish can live. If that's more your style then get a puffer.
 
Is the red terror a Cichlasoma festae?If its a male I think it will get larger than a foot. and it might not anything live in the tank when it gets larger. I wouldn't add any more cichlids, I would get a large school of clown loaches 8-12 and some bala sharks or silver dollars for the top. I do like the selection you got, do you have any pics.
 
Last edited:
gonefishin said:
I like that you acknowledge your fish will not be 2" forever. What else do you want to add? A few more oscars? Clean-up crew? I like having some smaller fish that will someday become part of "natural selection". before my puffer I had blue skirts, danios and barbs in my 55 with the cichlids. one might come up missing now and then but they were better than goldfish stinking up the tank. now that the puffer's in there no small fish can live. If that's more your style then get a puffer.
Click to expand...

I forgot to mention. I have a 2 inches pleco in the tank also. I am think about adding a tiger Oscar and a Red Oscar. May be one more pelco. I want have around 8 fish in the tank(not counting the pleco). What is puffer? Do you have picture?

I used to have 2 Albino Oscar, 2 Tiger Oscar and 1 pleco in a 46 gallons bow front tank. All of the Oscars grew to around 11 inches before they die. The pleco live alot longer. Later on I bought 2 red pecu(2 inches) and place them
in my other tank with pleco. The pleco grew to more than 17" long before it got killed by the 2 pecu. The pecu were around 11 inches.
 
Last edited:
N8DOGG said:
Is the red terror a Cichlasoma festae?If its a male I think it will get larger than a foot. and it might not anything live in the tank when it gets larger. I wouldn't add any more cichlids, I would get a large school of clown loaches 8-12 and some bala sharks or silver dollars for the top. I do like the selection you got, do you have any pics.
Click to expand...


You are right. Red terror is Cichlasoma festae. I think it could grow to 20" in the wild for a male. I hope mine is a female which will only grow to around 10"? I don't think I am getting clown loaches, but I am thinking about getting an irridiscent shark.( I like the look of it). Is silver dollars similar to red pacu, If it is i don't think I want them. No pics yet. I will put some up when I got all the
fish.
 
No irredescent sharks ;). I believe than can get in the range of 3-4 feet long. Bala sharks would be a better option, as already said.

Silver dollars aren't pacu, I don't know exactly how big they get, but I believe it's in the 6-8'' range.
 
yeah silver dollers are Characins they grow to 6" and are schooling fish. They make excellent target/dither fish and are tough at withstanding cichlid abuse.
I read an amusing article on them the other day, they are very skittish and its recomended that you always turn on the lights in the room a bit before you turn on the tank lights as sudden lighting can disorientate them and they go crashing into decor and fall on there side motionless. If that happens aparently you should put your hand in and right them and they normally recove in about 20mins!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom