5x2x2 -150g- fish stocking !!!!!!!!!

[elementkid65]

well i have 5x2x2 tank ready for some fish
i havent kept any big c.a /sa cichlids before
(only discus/angels etc) and lots of african cichlids

i want to make a big semi-agressive community

so what would work?

i was thinking

1 oscar, 1 g.t, 1 severum, 1 blue acara, 1 jack dempsey, 1 salvini,
and then some nice catties for the bottom

i would get them young and grow em' up. so they get personality and live with eachother (hopefully).

would my list work???

 

[Lupin]

I worry about oscars eating their smaller tankmates. I'd ditch that fish. The rest are okay. You can have two severums. They are pretty and mild-mannered. Uarus will work well as well.

What species are these catfish? Plecos are excellent there.

 

[elementkid65]

yes thats a good idea, thanks lupin

i shall get the fish in he next week or 2 depending of avaliability

most likely plecos, maybe a bumble bee cat or 2

 

[Bobostarr99]

I am curious about the pleco with the Jack Dempsey. I have some jacks that I raised from fry. They are about 8" long now (4 years old). I gave a couple of them to a friend about a month ago and warned her that they are extreamly aggressive. I recommended not putting any other fish in with them cause from my experience they killed my green terror, fire mouth and jewel. Even after they grew up with them from juvenile size. I figured after they lived together for about 1 year or longer I was in the clear....but no. When the Jacks got about 6" long, they started offing the other tank mates. Talk about tragic. :cry:

Needless to say, my friend didn't listen to me and picked up a $50 pleco at the lfs. I was told it was about 10" long. They told her the pleco would be fine. Sure enough, it was dead the next day.

I have read from many other people on here that they have or recommend keeping plecos with thier Jacks, with no problems at all.

Are my jacks just that unusally aggressive? Are most Jacks not that mean normally? Or is there a right and wrong type of pleco when it comes to tank mates with a Dempsey? Or a right and wrong way of introducing them? (I thought I was safe having them grow up together.)

Elementkid, I am not trying to steal your thread, I have just been curious about this and figured the insite that many of these experienced Fish keepers have to this question maybe of benefit to you as well as myself seeing that you want to place a demsey in your mix. (And maybe not, maybe my dempseys are just abnormally evil):devil:

 

[wataugachicken]

that's the size tank i have. . . . i've got plecos, some angelfish, 3 kinds of young severums, honduran red points, and a handful of tetras.