Hello, I have been lurking on the forum for a few weeks now. I have always had tanks of all sizes, up to this point my largest was a 90g. My wife and I are currently in the process of purchasing our dream house. The house has the perfect location for a room dividing center piece tank. We have decided to do a fresh water tank. I have a few question about setting a tank of this size up. Should I post these here or in the tank discussion section? The only reason I ask is I am sure some of these questions are pretty basic. We are looking at a few species now, we have always had Oscars so that is one option. I would love to try an arowana. She loves the peacock bass. Can wait to get some feed back from you. Thank you!
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hi, you need to decide on the tank size, then the species or visa versa, its no good doing a 10ft x 18''x 4ft tank then deciding you want fish 18''+.... or settle on species, to do a black arowana a few oscars and a small group of peacock bass you will need something in the 500g region minimum, oscars need 120g for two alone, a jardini arowana is the smallest you can keep aro wise and it will need something in the region of a dd 240g alone minimum.
The tank is roughly 4hx3wx4L. I was hoping for 2-3 bass, 1 arowana kind of setup. Does that seem feasible?
OK, I guess the arowana is out. Which is fine. I really love the look of the peacock bass, what are a few tank mates for them? I have a RTC that I plan in putting in the tank. I have seen pics of Dats in tanks with them. Does that usually work out?
Welcome! On a side note, you're going to need a minnimum tank size of 14'L x 8'W x 4'H for an RTC.
RTC is going to out grow the tank, the PBass will coexist with Dats, you are aware that PBass can and will get agressive like any other Cichla if there not enough space . I'll let other members chime in with their opinions.
Well the RTC has a pond to move to, another perk of this house. I have been looking around the site a quite a bit and wasn't to concerned with the tank size for the pbass, am I way off base here? Its about 360g I guess I may be able to stretch the dimensions a touch.