125 Gallon Stock

[wilfogn]

I purchased a 125 gallon aquarium and have a Cascade 1500 on hand. All my previous tanks have been simple community and wanted to ask for your advice before I put any fish in a bad spot.

My goals for stocking are larger good looking fish that are not complicated to care for.

AqAdvisor does not complain about:
Tiger Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus)
Firemouth (Thorichthys meeki)
Severum (Heros efascticious)
Banded Leporinus (Leporinus fasciatus)
Senegal Bichir (Polypterus senegalus senegalus)

Does this seem reasonable?

 

[wilfogn]

After some thought I might replace the Oscar with a jack dempsey to lower the mess/load and unify the theme.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Seams reasonable now you have dropped the Oscar.
Always trial and error with cichlids so no guarantees.
I would however drop the leporinus. Lone leporinus can be trouble. They are best in numbers if the tank is big enough.

 

[Rocksor]

Leporinus get huge, about the same length of an oscar. I would drop them from your stocking as well.

 

[kno4te]

Maybe consider the larger upper jaws or any lower jaw polypterus.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Sounds fine to me with or without the Oscar. Certainly on the safer side without the Oscar, but if you do enough water changes (probably 2 a week or one huge one) I think it could be fine with one in there.
I agree the leporinus are pains in the butt. Just like to piss off cichlids and nip at them. Plenty of other cool fish you could replace them with. Pinktail chalceus are one I have been wanting to keep. You could do a small group of them.

 

[wilfogn]

Thanks for the advice based on it I ended up with:
Firemouth (Thorichthys meeki)
Severum (Heros efascticious)
Senegal Bichir (Polypterus senegalus senegalus)
Jack Dempsey (Rocio octofasciatum)
The Pearl Eartheater (Geophagus brasiliensis)
Green Terror (Andinoacara rivulatus)

How does that look?

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Keep an eye on the brasiliensis, they can be very aggressive in my experience.

 

[Gourami Swami]

I think you'd be better off going back to the original idea personally, minus the leporinus. Brasiliensis and green terror both get 10+" and are generally more aggressive than your other cichlids,, adding those two to the mix throws the original idea out of whack. I think you'd be better off with the Oscar than with them honestly.

 

[Rocksor]

Thanks for the advice based on it I ended up with:
Firemouth (Thorichthys meeki)
Severum (Heros efascticious)
Senegal Bichir (Polypterus senegalus senegalus)
Jack Dempsey (Rocio octofasciatum)
The Pearl Eartheater (Geophagus brasiliensis)
Green Terror (Andinoacara rivulatus)

How does that look?

Do you know if your water is hard or soft (GH)?