Plecos and cichlids

[legendaryfrog]

Hi everyone!

as you can see by my sig, i have a 720 gallon tank currently filled with 10 plecos and 10 cories. The cories i plan on giving to my friend soon, so im wondering, what cichlids, or other community fish, would go well in this tank?

the tank parameters are:

7 ph
74*
0 am, 0 ni, and 5 nitrate

there are plenty of hiding places and the plecos are all 10"-16: long.

 

[liv2padl]

in a 720 gallon tank i would think you could put in it what ever the heck you wanted

 

[legendaryfrog]

its more about having the plecos not kill any fish i put in with them

 

[liv2padl]

plecostomus killing cichlids? real cichlids don't eat quiche if this were my tank i'd install one each of the following:

 

[jm1212]

get urau, severum, geos, festivum, the possibilities are endless!

a big school of discus or angels with 4 sevs and an oscar or two would look cool, but so would a big group of geos.

 

[legendaryfrog]

those are nice, but they dont really match the environment i have in the tank.

would these work?

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=839

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=960

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1839

 

[mostlycichlids]

3 Red Serevums and 3 Turquoise Serevums. Just curious, what kind of plecos?

 

[jm1212]

Africans would look cool. make sure you have plenty of rockwork, and keep tme m/f ration to at least 4 females per male, and you could have a breeding population in your tank.

frontosa, calvus and compressicep are some of my favorite africans.

 

[mostlycichlids]

those are nice, but they dont really match the environment i have in the tank.

would these work?

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=839

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=960

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1839

You could definately do a large mbuma tank. You could do all males or 3f/1m ratio I would say you could do at least 50 indivisuals in that size tank

 

[legendaryfrog]

thanks. good to know.

and btw, there are 6 opal dot plecos, 1 royal, 2 gold nuggets (i think thats what they are), and 1 normal pleco.