Here is my setup:
75 gallon long (5 feet long x 1.5 feet wide X 16" tall):
1 Albino Oscar (10.5" including tail)
1 Sunshine Pleco L-14 (8-9")
4 Silver Dollars
2 Fluval 404 canisters, 1 Maxi-jet 1200, weekly water changes.
I am very attached to my Oscar and Pleco. I have tried other cichids in with my Oscar with no luck. First I had a Blood parrot he grew up with and then turned on a year and a half later. I removed the BP and put a Jack dempsey in instead. The JD was too aggressive for my Oscar. So I took out the JD and tried a Severum. The Oscar beat up on the severum too much so I took it out. I thought forget it, I will just leave the tank with the Oscar, silver dollars and the pleco. Now, my Oscar seems pissed and it chasing after the silver dollars and pleco (which he never did before). No damage has been done, my pleco just hits him with his spikey fin. Will the Oscar settle down? My only other thought would be to try adding a 3-4" convict and see what happens, but do you think it would beat up on my Oscar or pleco when it gets bigger? I am not able to get a larger tank (on a second story and tank fits in a nitch in the wall of my living room), so that is not an option. I would like to keep these fish forever so I don't want to add too much so they would overcrowd when they are full grown. I am willing to remove the silver dollars if necessary, but I do not want to part with the Oscar or pleco. Please tell me what I should do. It is also very difficult to find larger cichlids other than convicts in my area.
P.S. Sorry for all of the compatibility questions. I am sure you guys are sick of it..........but I just don't know what to do. Probably the best thing for me to do is to take a valium and stop worrying so much.
75 gallon long (5 feet long x 1.5 feet wide X 16" tall):
1 Albino Oscar (10.5" including tail)
1 Sunshine Pleco L-14 (8-9")
4 Silver Dollars
2 Fluval 404 canisters, 1 Maxi-jet 1200, weekly water changes.
I am very attached to my Oscar and Pleco. I have tried other cichids in with my Oscar with no luck. First I had a Blood parrot he grew up with and then turned on a year and a half later. I removed the BP and put a Jack dempsey in instead. The JD was too aggressive for my Oscar. So I took out the JD and tried a Severum. The Oscar beat up on the severum too much so I took it out. I thought forget it, I will just leave the tank with the Oscar, silver dollars and the pleco. Now, my Oscar seems pissed and it chasing after the silver dollars and pleco (which he never did before). No damage has been done, my pleco just hits him with his spikey fin. Will the Oscar settle down? My only other thought would be to try adding a 3-4" convict and see what happens, but do you think it would beat up on my Oscar or pleco when it gets bigger? I am not able to get a larger tank (on a second story and tank fits in a nitch in the wall of my living room), so that is not an option. I would like to keep these fish forever so I don't want to add too much so they would overcrowd when they are full grown. I am willing to remove the silver dollars if necessary, but I do not want to part with the Oscar or pleco. Please tell me what I should do. It is also very difficult to find larger cichlids other than convicts in my area.
P.S. Sorry for all of the compatibility questions. I am sure you guys are sick of it..........but I just don't know what to do. Probably the best thing for me to do is to take a valium and stop worrying so much.
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