Too big for a 120G tank? My tank is a custom 130G. The water volume is ~120G.
The dimensions are 33" x 36" x 24"
Blue Acara or Green Terror???
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Too big for a 120G tank? My tank is a custom 130G. The water volume is ~120G.
The dimensions are 33" x 36" x 24"
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Like you already know,it's a GT.Are those both the same fish?If they are the same fish,I would say you have 2 females.I would also get rid of both of them,or at least remove them from that tank.You might get lucky,but they usually live up to their names,and you might not have any gourami left before too long.Here is a pic of my male.He would love to rip up some gourami if given the chance!
Thats a pretty boy, chevelle! His head seems more rounded than most GTs or maybe it's the pic angle.
I'm no expert but I would imagine that your gouramis will be targets while there's a GT in there. My GT is tough as nails. Good luck!
personally, my money is on the kissing gourami taking out the other gouramis. there's no way a sweet little pearl is going to go up against a 4-6 inch territorial gold, or a 10+ inch kissing gourami. they should not be mixed. the smaller ones should do well with the severum, but the kissing gourami may start to get into arguments with the sev as it grows.
take care of the GT issue, and then look into the gourami problem.
gouramis aren't south american either.
if those two problems can be solved, i think a ghost knife would do well in that SIZE tank, but it all depends on how the other fish react to it. if it were me i would grow it out to 6 inches or so before mixing it with anything bigger.
take care of the GT issue, and then look into the gourami problem.
gouramis aren't south american either.
if those two problems can be solved, i think a ghost knife would do well in that SIZE tank, but it all depends on how the other fish react to it. if it were me i would grow it out to 6 inches or so before mixing it with anything bigger.
My GT's don't go near any of my gourami's YET. I'm glad I post things in AC....just when I thought I know what I'm doing.........yet again I feel like such a NEWBIE! :wall:
Well, I will talk to my LFS and see what they can do for me.
If this was your tank........what would you do?! I'm curious now.
thanks for all your help.
Well, I will talk to my LFS and see what they can do for me.
If this was your tank........what would you do?! I'm curious now.
thanks for all your help.
in my experience with the cichlids i have kept (so far just angels, severums, honduran red points) their aggression - especially when small - is mostly towards each other. angels to angels, sevs to sevs, etc. conspecific agression. it seems like until they can win the battles over another of their same kind, they won't try to dominate other types of fish. when they get bigger and start to feel like the 'bosses' of the tank, then they will branch out. i had oscars too, but mine liked each other and everyone else, actually, so not much info from them.
i keep a 10" black ghost with a couple bichirs and 4 severums. nobody wants to mess with him now, but i think if the situation was reversed with large confident sevs and a small knife, he would have been beaten up at feeding time. as it is now with 4-5" severums, he just swoops in to eat like Batman and the other fish look on in awe until he finishes eating and goes back to his cave.
i keep a 10" black ghost with a couple bichirs and 4 severums. nobody wants to mess with him now, but i think if the situation was reversed with large confident sevs and a small knife, he would have been beaten up at feeding time. as it is now with 4-5" severums, he just swoops in to eat like Batman and the other fish look on in awe until he finishes eating and goes back to his cave.
I had blue acaras & firemouths in a 55g, not perfect but in my case, doable. The really aggro cichlids...Good Luck!
