Cichlidfan, I'm just giving advice. I'm not against you. This is your tank and you can put whatever you want in it. If you don't like my advice, don't use it.
55 Gallon Tank, medium size cichlids?
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Pfft. All these folks telling you to only stock cons in 55s. As long as you have good filtration you can keep many many larger fish in the tank. Hell in my 60 gallon alone I have 2 red devil, a pair of cons, a chocolate pleco, a Texas, 20 striped danios, and a jag. Sure its a grow out thank and other than the cons, all the cichlids average out around 6", how ever it is filtered with 2 sunsun 265gph canisters, a 400emperor, and a penguin 350. with good water quality/filtration/wc you can stock almost any fish in any tank, for nearly the life of each fish. Get whatever cichlid catches your fancy.
You shouldn't be giving people advice like that. It can be very easily misconstreud. It's not just water quality, there are a ton of other variant's to look at e.g. aggression, territory and even water chemistry. Anybody after reading that advice could run out and buy a ton of cichlid's thinking it's ok because YOU said so, only to fall into the trap of because they are small and no aggression issuues to believe it's going to be ok and any experienced fish keeper knows that it won't be. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!!!!!
To the OP don't listen to bad advice, there are alot of experienced keepers here who will steer you in the right direction, i think the salvini, firemouth and con was on the right path stocking wise.
yeah i think the salvini con and FM with the bichirs will make a nice tank, without a female the male con will be aggressive but shouldnt be a killer, its usually when they have females to show off for that male cichlids turn into psychos. the sal and con should def be able to hang but i would try and get the FM a bit larger since they can tend to be a bit more timid...
Honestly a 55g is just fine for a Con. I would however do a pair of Salvini in the 55g. I am considering doing a set up like that actually in the near future.
Putting 2 RD and a Jaguar in a 60 gallon along with many other fish is dumb stramn. How old are those fish?
if a cichlid doesn't grow to it's full size then it means the tank is too small and the fish will die young because the cichlid's organs do keep growing and then the organs are packed in a small body so when the cichlid's organs get too big then their organs shut down resulting in the fish's death. and if danios are put in with a cichlid community then the danios will be eaten when the cichlids grow big enough
