Need Help!!! Silver dollar tankmates.

[Dean]

Iam planning on purchasing a 90 gallon aquarium with 6 silver dollars. But need sum help picking out good tankmates for them, preferable for south/central america. Would they be ok with 6 cories? Iam thinking maybe two Festivums too. and a redtailed shark? Thanks

 

[matty150]

corys are fine but red tailed sharks can be a pain in the butsky, they like to chase other fish. i have tinfoils and oscars with my silver dollars and they're doin great.

 

[sumoschro]

yeah i dont know about the red tail....with the cories they might hassle them. if you are looking for just bottomfeeders go with the cories, and about 6 or 7 of them, because they like to school. If you arent necessarily looking for bottom feeders then you could get some buenos aires tetras, they would go nice with the silver dollars.

 

[viboy]

I have a red tail in my 90 with the silver dollars. There is never any problems between the red tail and the silver dollars. However, the silver dollars are about the only fish in the tank that are not terrorized by the red tail. He never actually does damage but definately chases everything else.

 

[demon_surfer]

i say through an oscar or some other largish cichlid in there. like a green terror or a jack dempsey.

 

[LMOUTHBASS]

silver dollars

are community fish so you won't have problems from them you can keep them with tetras or rainbow fish (i have mine with neon rainbows and they make a nice color contrast against each other)
anything peaceful i suppose

 

[Hans]

my balas school with em

 

[NickH]

A jurupari or another cichlid from the eartheater variety would do well in there. These are unaggressive, substrate sifting, slow-growing cichlids.

Yep, one of the above (they grow to about 10 inches, slowly), a medium-sized pleco of your choosing, and maybe a school of small tetras, etc. That would be my choice.

 

[Dean]

How about this

-6 silver dollars

-2 firemouths

-6 cories

will this work and anyother sudgestions?

 

[JazzyB]

I like the idea of having a small school of tetras with the silver dollars; something to add some colour to the tank.