Aquarium setup

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I have a 500 liters tank with:
7 angels
3 Bolivian rams
5 firemouths
4 geophagus(unknown species for now since I don’t trust pet shop description)
1 severum
1 Oscar
1 clown loach
1 pleco
2 Kribensis
1 Texas Cichlid

All of them are baby sizes and I bought them at the same time so they will grow up together and get along I’m only afraid of Texas and Oscar but I spend so many hours reading other fish keepers having oscars with this fish and I guess it’s kind of luck, personality, and how well u “train” your Oscar... so what is your opinion about my tank?

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Hopefully it’ll last. Some of the dwarf cichlids could become meals. Probably need a bigger tank if ur planning to keep ur fish till fully grown. Gotta wait and see with the Oscar and Texas.
 
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Nice looking tank, and nice stock list, though I think you will run into issues with the stock as the fish mature. I think this will be far too many fish for this size tank, and that you will have compatibility issues. Also you have fish which thrive in soft acidic water like the geophagus, rams, and other SA cichlids, then you also have fish which do much better in water which is hard with a higher pH.
Personally I would remove the Oscar, Texas, and Firemouths. You would have a much higher chance of long term success.
 
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I agree with GS, the rams, the angels, the Geos will all work together nicely, maybe even the severum, being soft water species (the Geos are soft water, I saw the photo in your other thread), and even though its African, the Kribs fit well into that soft water scenario.
That line up alone as adults will soon fully stock your tank
The odd ones out are the Texas and oscar because they can become killers of small species like rams, and also (if the plants are are real) destroy the nice planted section.
The fire mouths are harder water species, and as to whether or not they work with the others, remains to be seen, they are often less aggressive than most other Mexican or Central American species.
 
Well I talked with my bf and his parents want to make a big aquarium so I’ll keep Oscar and Texas for a while like a year and then I’m gonna give them those too and maybe the firemouths and I’m gonna put another geophagus species on the aquarium... right now as long as my tank runs (1 month close eye on the fishes) the only problem that I have is that severum and Texas eat my java fern and the other plants even anubia during the night XD and that my smallest angelfish has lost its personality so it follows either firemouths, or any other fish, and while I had a Jaguar Cichlid inside the aquarium cause I had too for a few days the angelfish was acting like him and chasing down the tetras like jaguar did
 
Now I have another question I went in a pet shop and they had geophagus fish they said they were proximus but didn’t seem to me like them... but they were stunning they had a body like alto front but they were fully pink colour without any stripes... they were about 15-20 cm, as long as I’m searching for pics I can’t find anything else like them I’m gonna take a pic when I visit them again, do u think of any species of geophagus full pink colour?
 
The Oscar and texas are going to start eating/killing your fish before a year is up. They could both be full grown adults by then. Rams and kribs will be the first to go. Depending on how mean your texas gets, lots of other fish could be targeted as well. Mean central americans like a texas just don't fit with the rest of your peaceful SA stock.
 
Agree with GS again, and would like to add, until you get rid of the Central Americans, adding more fish is not a good idea.
All the fish you have, will out grow your tank sooner, then later.
And "if" you fill it up with too many fish now, you may start to experience water quality issues that end up creating disease, and territorial fights sooner.
 
During the summer I will give the fish 1 year was the maximum scenario if something bad happens... i have two external filters fluval 306
 
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