I currently am planning to upgrade to a 240 gallon tank and I have been researching fish and I wanted to get advice on my stock, if anyone knows if they are a good pairing or if it may be a mistake waiting to happen. I was planning 2 Black ghost knife fish, 1 ornate Bichir, 1 dragon goby, 2 Redfin Prochilodus, 1 German red peacock, and 1 dragon blood peacock,
240 Gallon exotic stocking
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thats a list of fish with wildly different origins, water parameters, and care requirements. youve got south american, malawis, and brackish fish. typically you cant set up a tank to fit the needs of just two of these let alone all 3.
i would focus on the south american with the black knife and a group of prochilodus. you can build from there with any of a multitude of suitable south american tankmates.
i would focus on the south american with the black knife and a group of prochilodus. you can build from there with any of a multitude of suitable south american tankmates.
BGKs are highly territorial believe me. I had two and one of them would in the middle of the day leave his cave and go to the other side of the tank and attack the other one. The one being attacked ended up dying. (Stick to one of you really want some) and I personally am going to sell mine. You never see him, I am actually selling all my monster fish and getting a planted community tank.
This does seem to be a random selection of mostly incompatible fish. Not to be rude, just hoping to give some insight. What do you want out of the tank? Community of small fish, group of large fish, maybe one centerpiece and then many smaller fish? I would pick one fish that you absolutely love, and stock the tank around that species. We would be happy to help find compatible tankmates if you tell us what you want to start with.
If you mean flagtail prochilodus when you say "redfin prochilodus" then keeping just just two together is not a good idea. They fight. That's why when you see them in monster set ups there's usually just a single flagtail. If you want more than one you will need to do a group, maybe five or six, they tend not to fight in a group. But five or six flagtails in a 240 would probably leave room for little else, they can reach 12-16".
I’ve been reading everyone’s replies and I’ve been looking into their advice the more I do research the more I wanna make a tank around a star sapphire Cichlid surrounded by a variety of peacocks because from my research it seems they are fairly compatible but the problem is I really want to include an ornate Bichir but I don’t know how that fish would react in that sort of tank. I have an ornate Bichir right now and I absolutely love him I think he is a beautiful fish and he has shown some aggression towards my other fish but really only during feeding time other than that he mainly keeps to himself.