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[Carter020108]

So I ended up getting rid of my green terror pair and red devil and now I’m just left with 2 jds, a pleco, and a bichir is there any parachromis that I can keep with jds and what are some other aggressive colorful cichlids I can keep like festae,salvonis etc

 

[Keepers]

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[Carter020108]

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Of the tank layout?

 

[Keepers]

Of the tank layout?

Pleco

 

[duanes]

So I ended up getting rid of my green terror pair and red devil and now I’m just left with 2 jds, a pleco, and a bichir is there any parachromis that I can keep with jds and what are some other aggressive colorful cichlids I can keep like festae,salvonis etc

Probably no Parachromis, they require a separate tank.
The key word here is aggressive.
JDs in comparison to many other cichlids are not aggressive, and tend to do poorly when housed with aggressive species.
In nature, they are sometimes found with those of the genus Thorichthys,, which are also comparatively non-aggressive and prefer to live in a shoal of 4 or more.
To me a 180 with 2 JDs, and a shoal of 4 or 5 Thorichthys, species would be a stunning display..
If you want aggressive, then the best option, is 1 species per tank, just the word aggressive is code, for impending bloodbath.

 

[RD.]

What Duane said.

 

[Carter020108]

Probably no Parachromis, they require a separate tank.
The key word here is aggressive.
JDs in comparison to many other cichlids are not aggressive, and tend to do poorly when housed with aggressive species.
In nature, they are sometimes found with those of the genus Thorichthys,, which are also comparatively non-aggressive and prefer to live in a shoal of 4 or more.
To me a 180 with 2 JDs, and a shoal of 4 or 5 Thorichthys, species would be a stunning display..
If you want aggressive, then the best option, is 1 species per tank, just the word aggressive is code, for impending bloodbath.

I’m considering a 300 gallon do you think I could pull it off in that big of a tank

 

[Carter020108]

But thoricyths aureus seems like a good idea

 

[RD.]

I’m considering a 300 gallon do you think I could pull it off in that big of a tank

Depends on your skill set dealing with large aggro species. Even in a 500 gallon tank, bad things can happen when one keeps large aggro species. Always a juggling act dependent on the various players personalities, as they become sexually mature.

 

[duanes]

Depends on your skill set dealing with large aggro species. Even in a 500 gallon tank, bad things can happen when one keeps large aggro species. Always a juggling act dependent on the various players personalities, as they become sexually mature.

What RD said.
Below is a 440 gal enclosure., it was 8ft L x 5 ft W, a fairly large footprint.

It was not large enough to keep one species of Paratilapia, from killing the other.
They searched each other out, to do battle to the death in that amount of space

The pool was fine later , for more non-aggressive types, where species looked radically different from each other.