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castro1212

castro1212

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I made a pond that’s close to 600 gallons. The fish currently going in there are 1 Oscar 2 severums 1 red Texas and a spotted shovel nose catfish.
What else could I add to that?
Festea pair
Midas
Silver aro
Florida or spotted gar?

Actual inside dimensions are about 88x39x39

Not 100% finished still have to paint lay foam in and insert pond liner

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very cool. looks solid. i would pull the trigger on an arowana if i had a 600 gallon pond. gar sound great too.

i wouldnt go the festae route. i dont think you'll be able to appreciate their beauty so much in a pond type enclosure. shovelnose might eat them after a couple months too.

midas will give you aggression problems i think, probably kill your oscar and severums, then get eaten by the shovelnose after a couple months.
 
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Yeah. The shovelnose gets a bad rap but he isn’t interested in live food. I threw some convicts in there as feeders and they’re making a colony now. Although anything can happen overnight.
 
castro1212 said:
I made a pond that’s close to 600 gallons. The fish currently going in there are 1 Oscar 2 severums 1 red Texas and a spotted shovel nose catfish.
What else could I add to that?
Festea pair
Midas
Silver aro
Florida or spotted gar?

Actual inside dimensions are about 88x39x39

Not 100% finished still have to paint lay foam in and insert pond liner

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Very nice build
 
Indeed don't trust catfish.
I have a Spotted Raphael that ate my Convicts fry.
I used to have some Pictus cats that ate my giant Danios.
When I first got back in the hobby. I got 6 little cichlids, and 6 giant danios as dithers, and 3 pictus cats.
I assumed at some point that the cichlids would eat the Danios, but the cats beat them to the fish.... The 3 Pictus ate 5 of the 6 Danios. I knew it was the cats due to Danios tails hanging out of the Cats mouths in the morning still.
 
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Oscar and severum are generally much less aggressive than the other fish you propose. If you want to do aggressive fish like midas and festae, I'd recommend leaving the Oscar and severums out. A better idea for a community in my opinion, would be to go the less aggressive, south american route. Keep the Oscar and severums, add some chocolate cichlids, hoplarchus psittacus (true parrot), some large geophagus. Would be a great display, SA cichlids are more tolerant of each other and will give you less headaches in general.
 
Hmm, yeah the geo's would really be happier with some sand in the tank. With no sand I might avoid them. There is so much variation between the different types of severums and Oscars that I'd say you could probably have a varied and enjoyable tank with just those two fish. Add the true parrot and the chocolates and you would have a cool group.
 
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