150 gallon stocking idea

[Deadeye]

Silver dollars then? I know they are often too skittish though.

 

[djsaltynuts]

Ive got a smaller canister filter on it and 4 sponge filters on it. Im used to doing large water changes weekly as i had a jack dempsey in a 55 gallon and did a 50% weekly so water changes wont be a problem. The only extra tank i have at the moment is a empty 29 gallon, if the aggression levels get too high ill take the agressive fish out and rehome it.

when i was a little kid i had a jack dempsey for about 10 years that only got top offs and a 5g waterchanges every couple months and did fine so i really wouldnt compare the waterchanges needed for keeping them alive to more sensitive cichlids like green terrors. you may also want to watch the aggression between the jack dempsey and green terror closely since the jack dempsey may think its another dempsey and bully it (this happened to me). maybe a geophagus species with a similar iridescent pattern would work better because geos tend to cause less bullying issues.

 

[djsaltynuts]

Gt is also a problem, they are mean.
Giant danios, Buenos Aires tetras, Aussie rainbows are good.

but they tend to pick fights they cant win ime

 

[FJB]

Silver dollars may be the best ticket. Large enough not to be eaten (hopefully), and not aggressive beyond their internal hierarchy.
I would say a school of silver dollars and a single large fish (the oscar?) would be awesome!
And then, those water changes should be more than the referred to 50% weekly...

 

[Rocksor]

I have a GT that picks fights that it can't win, but eventually does because the larger cichlid gets stressed out and sick from the constant badgering from the GT. It even flares at me.

SD's made my cichlids more skittish. When I removed them, the cichlids were no longer skittish.

 

[Deadeye]

but they tend to pick fights they cant win ime

I noticed. That’s how I lost mine. He must have challenged the leporinus (2-3 inch balloon gt vs 8 inch leporinus), and got killed.
Dempseys definitely know when to fight, and only fight if they know they will win.

 

[djsaltynuts]

I can drop the salvini and the firemouth if that will help the aggression. If i drop those how will the stocking level be?

personally id not do the oscar just because every other cichlid has just about as much personality and theyre super common and theres plenty of cooler cichlids with the same tanksize requirement.

maybe instead of having such a miscellaneous tank stocking skip the central americans and do a group of geos this will split up the tank less. the geos can have somewhat of a dither effect depending on the species.

have you thought about doing a pair of amphilophus or parachromis fish?(nothing else)

everything you listed could be kept in a 75g except arguably the oscar and a 75g is a much cheaper more common tank size atleast in my area.

 

[Cich Mind]

have you thought about doing a pair of amphilophus or parachromis fish?(nothing else)

+1
Nice idea djsaltynuts ,
Yeah, a pair of Amphilophus would be sweet. A pair would have to be the only fish in the tank though. A pair of Red Tiger Motas would fit in that tank too. But if Voramis wanted fish from his list I would drop at least one fish from the list. If you get most of those fish I'd keep a close eye on them and be ready to rehome/separate in the future. I would try to get all the fish at around the same time and with similar size if possible. By the way, Salvini can be straight up killers lol. GL