Advice on tank stock swap

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Omrit said:
My experience with Discus is they are not hard to keep it is just very important you start with the right Discus. Anytime we have gotten discus from an online store or at the LFS they have had a rough few months due to various diseases. Now we get them from a local breeder and they are no trouble at all. Even though all the discus are healthy now, the locally bred ones just have more vigor than the others. They also breed a lot more often. Really a night and day difference between them.
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Absolutely couldn’t agree more.
 
Omrit said:
My experience with Discus is they are not hard to keep it is just very important you start with the right Discus. Anytime we have gotten discus from an online store or at the LFS they have had a rough few months due to various diseases. Now we get them from a local breeder and they are no trouble at all. Even though all the discus are healthy now, the locally bred ones just have more vigor than the others. They also breed a lot more often. Really a night and day difference between them. I think the angelfish/severum tank is nicer for that size tank though than Discus.


Anyway as for your stocking I would drop the silver dollars and the black skirts for a larger school of a prettier tetra. My personal choice would be bleeding heart tetras. Large enough not to be eaten by Severums, but not so large they disrupt your slower moving fish the way a silver dollar can. If you want two schools I also like the diamond tetra, and I find they compliment the bleeding hearts very well color wise.


You could also add a couple Acara(numerous species would work) or an eartheater of some kind. Most species of both typically hang around the bottom, and in your current set-up you are likely to really only have the cories on the bottom so more activity down there would look nice in my opinion.
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Great advice thanks. Those tetra suggestions are definitely nicer to look at. This is why I want to move to community, soooo many more options and flexibility to add species later.
 
I would scrap the silver dollars, they can be a bit too nippy, even with larger cichlids. Paracheirodon and rummies are the natural prey of angels as well. I'm not sure about the compatibility between angels and severums but I'd think it's fine. The more the merrier of each species. Black skirts would work well, I'd get as many as you can. They're very nice in large schools, and doable since they're pretty cheap. If you're not set on the severums you could also try geos.
 
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Lots of advice to ditch the silver dollars, so I'll go with that. Not a huge fan of SD's anyway. Might swap them for some small peaceful cichlids, something like keyhole cichlids or anything else with a similar temperamant.
 
Beano said:
Lots of advice to ditch the silver dollars, so I'll go with that. Not a huge fan of SD's anyway. Might swap them for some small peaceful cichlids, something like keyhole cichlids or anything else with a similar temperamant.
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Keyholes would be nice. That and laetacara, or Bolivian rams
 
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