Before I go into stock, let me say I love having planted tanks. Looks beautiful and allows for a higher bioload. That being said, stocking is a little odd, I'm surprised myself that this mix is working, but here goes.
2x EBJD
1x Standard Jack Dempsey (baught assuming it was a female, turned out to be another male)
3x Blue Diamond Discus, getting along surprisingly well with dempseys. The only aggresion I see towards these guys is from eachother!
1x Senegal Bichir- Also looking to get rid of... I love the fish, but I hate not being able to have smaller fish.
1x Rainbow Shark
4x White skirt tetra
And thats it.
My plan is to eventually ditch everything but the blue dempseys and rainbow shark, and get a large school of rummynose tetras or cardinals. I had the dempseys in with rummynose before and they were fine, and I've also seen this combination work... I'm a little weary about when the jacks get bigger, but theyve never gone after any smaller fish I've had them with so we'll see. Ill start out with a small group as a test to see if it works. I keep them really well fed, the tank gets 2 cubes of bloodworms and 1 cube of beefheart every day/every other day ( the bichir will eat most of this himself) and NLS cichlid formula in between, keeping them fat and happy seems to keep aggression issues at bay, with the exception of the discus beating the s*** out of eachother.
