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Hello,
I have a 100g tank with American cichlids, i just wanted to make a thread where i can tell the tank news and post pics.
Many of these fish are very young.:)
Now in the tank
1x Striped Pike Characin 15 cm
2x Geophagus Brasiliensis 15 cm and 7cm
1x Sajica 12 cm
1x Jack Dempsey 5 cm
1x Midas 4 cm
1x Flowerhorn 8 cm
1x Nigaraguensis 5 cm
2x Blue Acara (breeding pair) both 8 cm
1x Paroon Shark 16 cm
1x Polypterus Senegalus 20 cm
1x Clown Knife 17 cm
1x Red Tail Catfish 12 cm
2x Gold Spot Pleco 9 cm
1x Candy striped Pleco 9 cm
1x Royal Pleco
killerfish
04-16-2008, 5:03 PM
Should be in the photo lounge but its probably okay if you got questions thats fine
Hope you got a much bigger tank and you may have aggression problems eventually
Problems incoming your way mate, let me tell you. I presume because you have a Red Tailed Cat that you already have a really big tank on the way.
balton777
04-16-2008, 5:16 PM
What I foresee in your tank's future is a RTC and a bunch of feeders.
Yeah i know about the RTC, Paroon grow big and Flowerhorn, Midas will get more aggressive.
Some of those are going to andother smaller tank to grow.
After a year or so i will be building a 325 gallon tank.
I will slowly take some fish away (RTC will probably help me).
In the future i will put only
RTC
Paroon
Maybe Oscar and the pike characin!
Opiate
04-17-2008, 5:22 AM
would be awesome to watch em all as juvies, comin into maturity tho, could be very interesting....
Jeah its great to watch them fight. Usually only the Blue Acara and Flowerhorn fight.
Yeah it really is awesome, The Blue Acaras are a breeding right now and the male often fights the FH.
I was thinking adding a 10cm Heros Severum when i bought the fish but i thought he would be too much of a wussy in the tank. True?
Cross127
04-17-2008, 9:58 AM
I say go back to the store right now before you get attached to any of them. I would never in my life keep that many fish in a 100. Hell I feel bad for having a jag pair in a 125 as I feel they should have more room than that. I feel Midas and FH max out that tank alone when they grow up. Which will be very soon. Forget about the RTC thats like a feeder tank for him. 325 gallons is still definately not enough for a RTC. They need at least 10x5x4 tank.
TrikkyMakk
04-17-2008, 11:07 AM
Hello,
I have a 100g tank with American cichlids, i just wanted to make a thread where i can tell the tank news and post pics.
Many of these fish are very young.:)
Now in the tank
1x Striped Pike Characin 15 cm
2x Geophagus Brasiliensis 15 cm and 7cm
1x Sajica 12 cm
1x Jack Dempsey 5 cm
1x Midas 4 cm
1x Flowerhorn 8 cm
1x Nigaraguensis 5 cm
2x Blue Acara (breeding pair) both 8 cm
1x Paroon Shark 16 cm
1x Polypterus Senegalus 20 cm
1x Clown Knife 17 cm
1x Red Tail Catfish 12 cm
2x Gold Spot Pleco 9 cm
1x Candy striped Pleco 9 cm
1x Royal Pleco
Seriously you need to either get a bigger tank (or multiple tanks) or you will, as others have said, be ending up with some serious problems real soon.
My 90 gallon tank has only 5 fish in it:
1 Midas Devil
1 Jack Dempsey
1 Gold Saum
1 Convict
1 Pleco
I had 2 female convicts on top of that but I had to give them to a friend because they (along with the male I still have) were causing the other fish to start facing off with each other. There just isn't enough room for them and they cordoned off about a third of the tank for spawning purposes.
You are going to have more fish than water in there soon enough.
Jakob
04-17-2008, 11:18 AM
Im getting another tank for these
GT
Oscar
JD
Midas
Nigarag.
FH
There wont be so many fish in the future. I will just have to decide what fish i want to keep.
I know it sounds bad but I doesnt look overstocked. I know i will soon.
O yeah i almost forgot, RTC just ate the Blue Acaras frie!
Soon i will get a tank for them to breed!
TrikkyMakk
04-17-2008, 11:22 AM
Any pics by the way?
Jakob
04-17-2008, 11:22 AM
This evening, or sooner!
Pics as i promised:)
Flowerhorn
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/45c3iol2_Picture_003.jpg
Oscar
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/1o9n9n4i_Picture_014.jpg
Jack Dempsey
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/77gyo9ie_Picture_033.jpg
My smaller Geophagus Brasiliensis
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/ot56j1ce_Picture_048.jpg
8" Senegal posing
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/ff1nnuif_Picture_052.jpg
Full grown male T-bar (sajica)
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/cmngzjot_Picture_059.jpg
Green Terror
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/e2uvpgf4_Picture_065.jpg
Striped Pike Characin
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0804/amz2zxmk_Picture_066.jpg
So what do you think?
Are the fish in good colour?
Nice!
Thank you, i really apprecate it:)
The Pike Characin eats 2 guppies every third day, expensive food:irked:
But i can pet him:D
TrikkyMakk
04-17-2008, 7:29 PM
Looks good. The green terror is a gold saum, if you were curious.
Stunning T-Bar, nice looking fish, just hope you sort out new tanks for them :p
Stunning T-Bar, nice looking fish, just hope you sort out new tanks for them :p
Ofcourse i will, the T-bar newer looses the color:D
Lizardking
04-18-2008, 11:38 AM
You got a very nice sajica. One of my favourites!
Lizardking
04-18-2008, 11:39 AM
What kind of plants do you have in the tank?
There are no plants, they always dig them up!!!
Lizardking
04-19-2008, 2:33 AM
Ok, so are the plants in the pictures plastics? Who digs them up? sajica?? I´m interrested since I have set up a tank with lots of plants that i´m gonna put a couple of sajicas in.
No the Sajica doesnt touch them, its the Geophagus.
No plants in the tanks, not even plastic. You mu
You must be looking at the background!
nice fish. Paroon sharks get ridiculously massive though.
scratanut
04-19-2008, 3:12 PM
Nice colors on Sajica!