Guppy lives happily with cichlids

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The Guppy is still living happily with my red devil, tiger oscar, jack dempsy, green terror, and pleco.....

any thoughts to why they wont eat him...i really dont like him, why wont he be eaten...

Ive been feedin them blood worms and pellets.. But they wont go to the surface to feed, they wait till it sinks...how do i get them to go up?

And how do I get them to eat the dam n guppy
 
Stop feeding them.

I have a trimac that let a goldfish live in his tank for several weeks before finally eating him. I usually don't feed him feeder fish so he might not have recognized the food at first.

Not feeding them for a few days will probably help them come up to the food too. My pikes used to wait until the food sunk too, but after a couple of days without feeding they got brave.
 
I don't feed my fish feeders too. If they don't like some fishes, they will just kill them, but not eating them. However, it takes them close to a month before they all decided to kill my Firemouth. *sigh* I still don't know who is the killer...either my GT, Con, or JD (possibly my mix blood parrot).
 
My next door neighbor has a 9" red belly piranha that has had a single tetra simming in the same tank for the last 2-3 years...even after a move the piranha still hasn't eaten it...fish can do some strange stuff sometimes.
 
Do you believe that a 3-foot Arrowana can live peacefully in a tank with hundreds of cardinal Tetra?

I visited the Dallas World Aquarium back in March and saw a 500+ gal tank housed with several hundred cardinal Tetra, a breeding pair of Thorichthys arium, several Discus, giant pleco and a 3-foot Aisan red Arrowana cruising in the same tank. This is a public aquarium and this tank has fish from different regions and continents. I asked the aqaurium attendent why the arrowana won't eat the tetra. He said that the Arrownan eats only worms.
 
I have some silly glass cats that live with a Lyoni, a spectabalis, and a citrinellum.. Mojo has a few gourami that live in his pond with DOZENS of full grown nasty cichlids. Seen it myself.. the big fish dont even bother them.
 
That aquarium in dallas is cool, I was looking out the window of my building at work today watching them add on to it. :D The saltwater predator tank is my favorite. Lionfish are kewl. The amazon river basin with the red tail cats, the turtles and all the peacock bass are really cool as well. But what I dug the most was the pond that had the 3-4" arowanas and the stingrays in it.

oh yea I forgot to mention the panoramic saltwater tank that you walk through. Man that place is cool but they charge to d*mn much for admission.
 
I have had similar instances where a much smaller fish would live peacefully with larger Cichlids. I put a couple hundred Citrinellum fry in the 300 gallon tank with the 16" & 14" Umbee and they were ignored. As Aikido Guy pointed out right now there are six or seven Gourami in the pond with a lot of other larger fish. Here's a photo of a "contradiction in theory" of who will get along in the same tank.

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BTW....using feeder fish is just plain dumb. It's a great way to kill your fish with a nasty bacterial disease.
 
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Yes, the Dallas World Aquarium is nice but I agree the price is steep because it is not a big aquarium. I think I paid $12 for the entry plus another $5 for parking. I like the Mbuna tank that is placed outdoor. There is another public aquairum in Fair Park , Dallas (Not sure about the name but I guess it is where the Cotton Bowl is located) that is cheaper and more interesting to me because it has display of many fresh water tanks. There is one tank with CA cichlids housed with wild Swordtails which are feeder fish for CAs in home aquarium. Another African tank is housed with Malawyan, Tanganyikan and Victorian cichlids all in one tank. The leulupi were sneaking in and out of the rock along side foot long Frontosa and large Haps. Dallas likes to mix fish like salad bowl. There appears to be no predation though and I guess because the tanks are big (500 gal+) and the fish are well fed.
 
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