Anyone keep two large males in a divided tank?

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pdandy

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I have a large male synspilum that is going to kill his female soon because he turned into a real d!(k overnight. I was thinking about putting in a divider and throwing in another large male cichlid on the other side. Tank is 6ft long, 135 gallons. Has anyone ever done this? Will it work? Basically will be two "wet pets" in a divided tank.

Dan
 
Can it be done yes, is it ideal, no because that is really make two 62.5 gallon tanks. Which in my opinion is to small for a male syn and you better have a very good divider in place because he will probably go thru one that is thin. Now, I've seen others do it and they make it work, but if you are asking if it's ideal no. Would be a great short term maybe until you rehome one or the other.
 
I have two divided males, albeit much too small too to push the divider (3'') It will be a short term project (2 yrs) at most but I like the fact that it brings out their personality more. I also hope it brings out their nuchal hump :) Grammode and Istlanum.
 
Hmmmm...I figured it'd be ok since it'd be only 2 large fish in a 135 gallon tank. The divider wouldnt cut off the water flow from one side to the other, so it wouldn't be like "two 62.5 gallon tanks")Plus the 20 gallons in the sump. Very understocked IMO. The only problem I thought I'd encounter would be making a divider strong enough the hold up against two large cichlids.

Dan
 
The divider does cut off the water flow a bit. I had my divider custom made acrylic with slits running vertically all across the divider but no matter what it will cut off a bit. I am thinking about going and buying a lil 20 gallon filter to put on the other side just so I have a some sort of current on the surface.
 
The concern wasn't the filteration at all, you could put a ac110 on each side along with a canister and be more than enough for the filteration. The point I was just trying to bring up is that the fish have had 72" to swim and now with a divider they are going down to 36" to swim. I know some don't see an issue with this, but even a 55-90 gallon tank have 48" swim length for a 12" fish that can mean a lot. Was just trying to bring that up to see is all :) I'm sure you will figure something out and make them happy whatever you come up with and yes you will need a very good divider (eggcrate comes to mind) then the water flows from side to side.
 
I am for the egg create devider pretty cheap. And alot can flow threw it.

I only just found out that egg create is actually used in drop down light in ceiling. Just bought some yesterday :) for my sump

Sent from the monster app :)
 
Why add another male? I would just divide the pair... And egg crate works great!!
 
x2 for dividing the pair,they can breed right thru it,will interact,and maybe can bond again that way.
 
divide the pair but if u dont want u really have to get a strong divider i would say
 
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