Jack dempsy

Re: Cichlids

Originally posted by ScottoMacD
For that I prefer spanner, and arulius barbs. Good looking and tough as nails.
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So, it looks like the Spanners get big enough to bw with full grown cichlids. Never heard of (or at least noticed) them. Are they common? Are they about the same price as Tiger Barbs? I'd like to grow some up for my bigger cichlid tanks. :)
 
Originally posted by bennylax3
would a tiger barb fast enough
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They weren't in my tank...
I had 6 that grew up peacefully with my dempsey until about two months ago. They began to disappear slowly over a two week period until they were gone.

If it wasn't my dempsey then my Pleco has one hell of an appetite :).
 
Well he hasn't answered on his tank size as of yet... I wouldn't put a JD into a tank with other cichlids in anything less than a 50 or 55gal aquarium. Most JDs are relatively passive (but can hold their own), but there are some that are just downright nasty...

As for dither fish... even fast giant danios don't last forever with my carpinte or green terror...
 
Originally posted by DarthV
Well he hasn't answered on his tank size as of yet... I wouldn't put a JD into a tank with other cichlids in anything less than a 50 or 55gal aquarium. Most JDs are relatively passive (but can hold their own), but there are some that are just downright nasty...

As for dither fish... even fast giant danios don't last forever with my carpinte or green terror...
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He has 29g. He wants to know how long he can have a small JD before he needs to upgrade the tank.
 
Ooooh... never saw a tank size in this topic, must have been in another one :)

I'd take a guess you could keep a dempsey in a 29gal for quite some time by itself and a few dither fish... I'd probably want to move it to a larger home once it reached 6-7". My male grew quite fast, over an inch a month and showed no signs of stopping when I had to trade him to the LFS (he was terrorizing my larger GT). Females probably won't grow as fast.... also a varied diet of good quality food and 2-3 20-25% waterchanges a week will help with growth as well.

I think I'll probably get another dempsey for my work tank...once I have a few broods of A. spirulus, I'll probably trade them in... or get a larger tank and have both the pair of spirulum and a dempsey.
 
sorry bout the tanksize forgot. i am gettting a 29. i want to get one jd and when he is to big get a bigger tank or sell him back. but i am thinking about putting 5 ros barbs with it and a pleco. would the pleco get the barbs. he is only about 2" but when would he start eating them
 
would two green terrors work. i heard they are a little less aggressive and they grow slower than a jd
 
I don't think they will grow much slower than JDs...or at least not slow enough to make a difference in the amount of time it will take to outgrow a 29gal tank. I'd stick with the JD, rosey barbs and a pleco for now.
 
Originally posted by bennylax3
would two green terrors work. i heard they are a little less aggressive and they grow slower than a jd
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Actually terrors have quite a mean disposition. I would say that they are meaner than JD's by a long shot. Again though there are exceptions.

Terrors also tend to get quite a bit bigger than JD's on average. 2 or 3 inches may not seem like allot until you throw in 2 fish with territorial attitudes in a smaller overall area. Then those 4 to 6 combined inches make a huge difference.
 
i know they can get bigger. This is the deal. i am starting a 29 gallon tank and want a cichlid that will reach a larger size. I was looking for one that did not grow that fast. i like the jd but i hear they grow extremly fast like the oscar. form the lfs and what i have read green terrors grow slower. and from what all the people the fishs aggressiveness depends on its personaltiy more or less
 
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