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Davidiator

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I have a 75 Gallon tank. It currently holds 1 Fire Eel, 1 Silver Arowana, 1 BGK, 1 Clown Loach, 1 Hi-Fin Pleco...
I want to get rid of the Arowana and get community fish... What goes well with the other fish? I want to keep them all till they die. Right now they are all around 5-7 inches long. (i want all the fish to be able to stay with the other fish till they die)
Thanks
 
Upgrade the tank if you want to keep everything till they die.
 
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Your tank is too small, and clown loaches are social fish - a solo specimen is quite bad.

Unfortunately "till they die" will not be of old age in your current set up.
 
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Fire eel also gets to 30", I would say a 75 gallon is really pushing it for life.
I would re-think the stocking since keeping the animals for life is your goal. None of your fish except for the clown loach and maybe pleco can really live in a 75 gallon for life.
 
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So Then can you guys come up with an amazingly colorful and active stocking for my aquarium? But i do want to keep the pleco.
 
How about mbuna? Certainly very active and colorful, and pretty hardy and easy to keep. You could do a big mixed community or get groups of your two favorite species (what I would do) and try for 1-2m and 4-6f each. 15ish cichlids and your pleco. Be warned that the pleco will poop a LOT and you will have to be ontop of your maintenance. I would say at least 50% once a week water change, or two 30-40% would be better.
 
I LOVE cichlid colors... but i HATE how aggressive and territorial they are. :/
 
Davidiator said:
I LOVE cichlid colors... but i HATE how aggressive and territorial they are. :/
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Then go with all male peacock cichlids, you'll get amazing color and good activity and very low aggression. In a 75g you could do between 15-18 peacocks. Just some great ones off the top of my head..

Nagara flametail
Bi-color 500
Red shoulder
Lemon Jake
German red
Aulonocara
Lawanda
Dragonblood
Eureka red

There's tons more but those are some I have/have had and really like.
 
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