Dats & Cichlids

JayC74 · May 4, 2013

Hey folks..Just sold my two 13inch geos that i've been raising for 6 years in my 125. I'm pretty sick about it, but i just don't think it was gonna work out in my big tank with my dat since he killed a big geo a few years ago. I still have 3 large red severums that I would love to add to the tank with him

Just wondering if anyone has had any positive or negative experiences with keeping dats & cichlids of any type together?

Ian21777 · May 4, 2013

I have dats with a severum. biggest dat is 6-7 inch and severum is about an inch smaller. at the moment the severum rules the roost. what will happen when the dat gets big? we shall see.

sam_everist · May 4, 2013

I have had various Dats & Peacock Bass combinations which have worked very well with no aggression

JayC74 · May 5, 2013

Ian21777 said:
I have dats with a severum. biggest dat is 6-7 inch and severum is about an inch smaller. at the moment the severum rules the roost. what will happen when the dat gets big? we shall see.

Yea, i'm gonna attempt to put my 3 sevs with my dat tonight. Maybe he will get overwhelmed by all 3 of them going in at once and mellow out some. We'll see. Gd luck with yours btw for the future

JayC74 · May 5, 2013

sam_everist said:
I have had various Dats & Peacock Bass combinations which have worked very well with no aggression

I forgot how many times I've seen dats and pbass together in tanks. They seem to work pretty well together by the pics I've seen. Never had pbass, but would love to get my hands on a large beauty of a Kelberi and try him out with the gang

addisonlee25 · May 6, 2013

JayC74 said:
I forgot how many times I've seen dats and pbass together in tanks. They seem to work pretty well together by the pics I've seen. Never had pbass, but would love to get my hands on a large beauty of a Kelberi and try him out with the gang

I've had dats between 14-19" with pbass between 14-19" no problems between them.

Ian21777 · May 6, 2013

JayC74 said:
Yea, i'm gonna attempt to put my 3 sevs with my dat tonight. Maybe he will get overwhelmed by all 3 of them going in at once and mellow out some. We'll see. Gd luck with yours btw for the future

Thanks

I think it will be ok (crosses fingers) its only posturing, bit of chasing. it isnt sustained or outright violence lol

JayC74 · May 7, 2013

addisonlee25 said:
I've had dats between 14-19" with pbass between 14-19" no problems between them.

I think a large pbass cichlid would be a gd option to get mutual respect out of an equal size dat. My smaller cichlids just flee away and entice him to bully constantly

strollo22 · May 7, 2013

Ime none of my dats have ever bothered any other tank mate other than dats. That being said, when provoked, they will attack. As long as the Sevs aren't nippy you should be fine.

livelymc · May 16, 2013

Indo dat and jag cichlid together they don't fight well not now

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