Looking to stock a 100 gallon 5' tank. I was thinking maybe a green terror to start, a salvini, possibly a Nicaragua cichlid (could have got that name wrong). Let me know some are fish that work with these guys. And possibly some good dither fish for aggressive cichlids. I should also mention theres about an 8" featherfin catfish already occupying the tank.
100 Gallon stock
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If you were to put all 3 cichlids in the tank together as juvies, at the same time, and allow them to set up a territorial hierarchy it might work.
By normal cichlid standards I think of Andinoacara and nicaraguense as mild mannered, but the Salvini are to me, one of the "most aggressive" Central American cichlids, so adding piecemeal may be a problem.
And because the Nic and the Salvini both have predominant yellow coloration, I believe the Salvini will see the other as a direct competitor and eventually kill it.
By normal cichlid standards I think of Andinoacara and nicaraguense as mild mannered, but the Salvini are to me, one of the "most aggressive" Central American cichlids, so adding piecemeal may be a problem.
And because the Nic and the Salvini both have predominant yellow coloration, I believe the Salvini will see the other as a direct competitor and eventually kill it.
