55 gallon stocklist thoughts...

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Jack Dempsey
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Okay, so I've been looking around at stockings for 55s and have seen a heavier stocking used sometimes... Upon introducing my con to my 55 today with my newly introduced carpinte (both fish 3.5") the carpinte was forced to the upper corner all day (and now). Should I add another smaller growing cichlid to the mix to spread out the aggression?

The tank stock is in my sig, and here are a few things I've thought of, but am unsure of...

1. Leave it as it is and see how things go.

2. Add a school of tiger barbs as more target fish.

3. Add a bellycrawler (or any <10") pike

4. Add a female(?) salvini

I figure I'll know after a week or less with these two fish, but I was just wondering if the "overstocking" would actually work in this situation...
 
up to you on what you add but i would definitely add some form of small cichlid
 
Well i guess fate had other ideas... had moved the con to my 10 gallon (glass top) before work... came home from work to him on the floor dried out.
 
Well if you only have the two then add another 2 or 3 to break the chase pattern.
 
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