Setting up a 120gal and I'm looking for stocking ideas. I just want 3 - 5 good sized fish. I want to stick SA/CA and some good color or patterns. What do you think? I wouldn't mind going with some high aggression either. Anything's game!
120 STOCK IDEAS?
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Is it a 5 foot 60"x18" or 4 foot 48" x 24"? The footprint can have a large bearing on your stock. Most high aggression fish are pretty territorial so the longer tank is a bit better of choice. How about an Oscar, Dempsey, Convict combo? You have quite a few choices.
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I know there are plenty of options out there. I just can't decide lol. I've done dempseys before and I'm kind of done with that. If I go the Oscar route, I'll want to do a longfin albino. One of the options in mind was a synopilum, chocolate, LF O combo. Gives me color and some less typical fish. I'm entertaining the idea of working around a Midas cichlid but don't know what to put it with. Also thought about going frontosas and a ornate bichir. That's the only Africans I would want to do though. They have a SA/CA look to them and that's what the boss (wife) wants. Big pretty fish. Lol
I know there are plenty of options out there. I just can't decide lol. I've done dempseys before and I'm kind of done with that. If I go the Oscar route, I'll want to do a longfin albino. One of the options in mind was a synopilum, chocolate, LF O combo. Gives me color and some less typical fish. I'm entertaining the idea of working around a Midas cichlid but don't know what to put it with. Also thought about going frontosas and a ornate bichir. That's the only Africans I would want to do though. They have a SA/CA look to them and that's what the boss (wife) wants. Big pretty fish. Lol
If the wife wants big pretty fish then i would not go with the fronts. Thats not to say they dont get big or pretty but unless you spend an arm and a leg for them grown out (if you can find them) it will take a long time to grow them out.
I personally like the idea of a Jag and a few Vieja: a Synspilum, Ragani and maybe a breidohri
edit: That might get a little over stocked at full grown so you might want to take one out of that list (jag) or maybe as they grow out together it would work, would have to see how it went.
I personally like the idea of a Jag and a few Vieja: a Synspilum, Ragani and maybe a breidohri
edit: That might get a little over stocked at full grown so you might want to take one out of that list (jag) or maybe as they grow out together it would work, would have to see how it went.
I like his idea. I would want a large Oscar/Jag along with a couple smaller cichlids that could hide and hold their own.R0B;4563393; said:
oscar
some type of crenicichla
blue flash (thorichthys aureus)
satanoperca jurupari or leucostica (im not really sure how well it would work im not good with geos)
salvini
3 pictus cats
25 bloodfin tetras
nice and diverse
some type of crenicichla
blue flash (thorichthys aureus)
satanoperca jurupari or leucostica (im not really sure how well it would work im not good with geos)
salvini
3 pictus cats
25 bloodfin tetras
nice and diverse
cichlid_starter;4563341; said:
I have the same size tank, the 120g 60x18 footprint. And guess what my primary fish is a Midas. He is with 5 Red hook silver dollars and a smaller type sailfin pleco. My Midas is pretty mild, but on occasion will relentlessly chase everyone around.
A 5' tank is kind of hard with a Midas because he thinks it is all his! I have actually been thinking of either replacing him with a wild caught Oscar or getting rid of everyone else and letting him have the tank solo.
If you get the Midas small and raise him with your other fish all at the same time it does help. But the nature of the Midas seems to be better suited for a very large tank if in a community or just solo in its own tank.
