thanks all, my dads boss has informed me he wants lava rock, black sand, and black background, to contrast the fish. this made me think of two things, a jack dempsey green terror and flamemouth, or a pair of oscars being one albino and one black, how big should this tank be? is it even possible for me to tell the diffrence in sex? lastly, i have heard a bit about lava rock messing with ph or something similar a while back. Thanks for the help everybody! (the single fish like that seems very smart, espesially with the reasoning provided by cacichlids).
100 gallon office tank
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I think for an office tank I'd do a single large male cichlid with a very simple/clean aquascape such as this amazing tank by the member joecoulson
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I could stare at the photograph of this tank for hours. I could only imagine if I saw the real thing. I wouldn't get anything done!
there is a very nice 108 gallon with stand, light, and lid on sale at my LFS, I was thinking of a couple canister filters. I was pondering over a combo of an albino tiger oscar and a nicely colored JD at the LFS, or maybe a midas/red devil by himself, unless i could try raising it with an oscar from very small (2.5")? Oscars and red devils are said to have quite the personalitys, if anyone has had one or the other i would love your opinions! I also overheard somebody taking about a 'python', seems like a nifty WC device, but i have no clue what it truely is.
Thank you guys, it's amazing how much i have learned from fish forums, both fresh and salt!
Thank you guys, it's amazing how much i have learned from fish forums, both fresh and salt!
a red devil will massacre an oscar, you MIGHT be able to keep a midas with an O if the O starts out larger, but that is a big MAYBE, you could do a pair of red devils or midas though (i personally like midas better, but i have never kept red devils i just like the chunkier look of the midas more) an O and JD should be fine though, you could put in some silver dollars or something as well to add some movement to the tank and maybe some pictus or smaller growing pleco for the bottom. and a python is a long hose with a venturi siphon apparatus at one end that connects to a sink faucet and creates a siphon when you turn on the faucet to suck the water out of the tank, then you can turn a stopper at the bottom and it will put the water directly from the sink to the tank through the hose, it is a requirement IMO when having a larger tank (over 30g or so) it makes high volume water changes soooooooo much easier
a red devil will massacre an oscar, you MIGHT be able to keep a midas with an O if the O starts out larger, but that is a big MAYBE, you could do a pair of red devils or midas though (i personally like midas better, but i have never kept red devils i just like the chunkier look of the midas more) an O and JD should be fine though, you could put in some silver dollars or something as well to add some movement to the tank and maybe some pictus or smaller growing pleco for the bottom. and a python is a long hose with a venturi siphon apparatus at one end that connects to a sink faucet and creates a siphon when you turn on the faucet to suck the water out of the tank, then you can turn a stopper at the bottom and it will put the water directly from the sink to the tank through the hose, it is a requirement IMO when having a larger tank (over 30g or so) it makes high volume water changes soooooooo much easier
thank you, the description of the python makes it sound like a must. Is it true albino oscars are more aggressive? As in they would do better with a red devil/midas, from what i understand they are pretty interbred now, but was wondering which is least aggressive?
O's are O's aggression depends on the individual fish and has nothing to do with their coloring, and even if an O was aggressive it really WOULD NOT work with a red devil, red devil have big teeth to back up their aggression and can do alot more damage than an O could physically do no matter how aggressive, if you really like the red devils so much then you could try a pair in that tank with no other tankmates, search on here and you will see all kinds of threads where people tried keeping red devils with tankmates and it ended with a massacre and the red devil being by itself
