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Well I do have some bad news for you, you're going to have to cut back on some of your fish or they will do it for you. An oscar by itself will need at least a 55gal tank...same for the red devil or the green terror. Once your red devil hits about 5-6", everything else in the tank will be dead... devils are very nasty fish! The only combo I can think of for that tank is maybe the jack dempsey and green terror if they are both female...and that is with a very robust filtration system and a very good water maintenance routine.

1. most cichlids are pretty skittish while young and even more so when they are moved into an environment. They should become less spooked in a week or so.

2. I feed my smaller cichlids 3 times a day...enough each time so that they can eat all the food in 30-45secs or so.

3. I'd be surprised if the guppy and tetra live out the week.

1. its normal, be patient

2. thats pretty much up to you. my bro feeds his fish 3 times a day, i feed mine once. no more than 3 times though.

3. yes, im surprised its not already gone.

4. ok, you got some work to do. there is no way a green terror, red devil, jack dempsey and a tiger oscar will last in that tank. in fact, each one of those fish should be housed in a bigger tank alone. you need to get rid of the red devil and tiger oscar for sure. oscar gets way to big, red devil gets way too mean. it will destroy the fish you have with it. if i were you, i would get rid of all of your fish, take them to the lfs. either get smaller american cichlids (firemouths, convicts, rainbow, ect), community fish (tetras, danios, ect), or africans. you may (if you want) could keep either the green terror or jack dempsey. you would have to keep the green terror alone most likely, but you could probably keep the jd (jack dempsey) with some other stuff. but since you are a begginer, i would take them all back.

i didnt see Darth reply, must of did it while i was typing.

Hunter,

sorry to say this, but i doubt they last until they get 5 inches. the red devil might just kill them all at any time, especially if he grows faster than the gt and jd. the jd backing done the red devil is a fluke. it wont happen for long. red devils are mean as heck. plus, you wont get hardly anything for them. just sell them now and save yourself the money spent on food.

Welcome to AC Hunter! Where in GA are you? I can recommend some stores that will give you better advice and hopefully help you out a little.

If I were you I would skip the grow em and sell em idea. First off they aren't "worth" anything. You will spend more on food than you will get selling your fish. You need to have a rare or wild fish to get some money for it.

As previously stated your tank is, well, a disaster waiting to happen. If I could venture a guess I would say keep the red devil and return the other fish. Feed him pellet staple with a mix of frozen blood worm, mysis and formula two (pm me I'll tell you where to get it if your in ATL) with some spinach and romaine mixed in. Give him some ghost shrimp once a week and kick down the twenty bucks to get a ten gallon quarantine tank set up for some feeder fish. HTH.

Both are cichlids.

Try taking back all of your fish. Don't ask for money. Keep the Devil. Add five giant danios. In three days I think you will see the true power of these fish. PM me I'll give you some stores.