CA/SA Stocking ideas for a 190...

[terd ferguson]

I'm starting to get my stuff together to get my 190 set up. The tank is 60" long x 24" wide x 30" tall with an overflow box and holes drilled in the bottom. I've got a wet/dry sump that's 36" long x 15" wide x 16" tall. I'm still looking for the right deal on an inline pump. I've also got an Emperor 400 & 280 and 2 Penguin 1140 powerheads w/prefilters I can use on this tank if needed.

I'm starting to think about what to put in this tank. It's my first really big one. I'm currently running a 54 corner with Africans and a 55 that's just cycled with a few tetras. I'd like to go ahead and get a couple of fish to put in the 55 until the 190 is ready (maybe a month or two at most).

Here's what I like: big, aggressive, colorful cichlids. These are a few I've seen that I think look awesome- Red Tiger Mota, Jaguar, Festea, Dovii, & Grammodes.

Here's what I'd like from you guys, Suggest some big SA/CA cichlids that will get along well enough not to kill each other. How many of these fish can I keep for life in the 190? My maintenance habits are 20% water change weekly, feeding twice daily, water testing twice weekly before and after water change.

I'd like to have as many fish as I could reasonably get away with (bio load wise). The dovii idea would be great, but I think I'd rather have several fish instead of one or a pair.

So give me your suggestions and post some pics in case I don't know what they look like. And thanks again for the best fish forums on the interweb.

 

[terd ferguson]

Also, if I decide to get a dovii or a pair, are there any tankmates that will be suitable?

Thanks again for any and all help and/or suggestions and thanks again for this great forum.

And don't forget the pics.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

red tiger motas sound like a great idea.

 

[---XR---]

the dovii would be great idea if the tank was longer, 60" just isn't long enough, i'd do at least another foot is not 2. it's hard to cohab large aggresive fish..being that there well, large and agressive, i'd probably settle for a few vieja, like zonatus and argentena.

 

[balton777]

First of all the dimensions you gave are more like 153 gallon. Are you sure you didn't mean 72"x24"x30"?

You probably need to forget about the Dovii unless you want just a single fish tank or a pair.

You could get other Parchromis species like Mota's or a Jag + some tankmates like Viejas or Amphilophus species.

 

[terd ferguson]

red tiger motas sound like a great idea.

How many and what goes well with them (and how many of those)?

 

[terd ferguson]

the dovii would be great idea if the tank was longer, 60" just isn't long enough, i'd do at least another foot is not 2. it's hard to cohab large aggresive fish..being that there well, large and agressive, i'd probably settle for a few vieja, like zonatus and argentena.

Yeah, I know. The dovii idea is mostly wishful thinking.

 

[terd ferguson]

First of all the dimensions you gave are more like 153 gallon. Are you sure you didn't mean 72"x24"x30"?

You probably need to forget about the Dovii unless you want just a single fish tank or a pair.

You could get other Parchromis species like Mota's or a Jag + some tankmates like Viejas or Amphilophus species.

60"x24"x30"=186.315 US gallons or 708 litres. Check it...
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/calculator.php

In regards to the motas or jags, could you be more specific? I'm looking for more of a suggested stocking list with quantities of fish.

Thanks again everyone.

 

[AquataHolic420]

EARTHEATERS of all sorts, Geophagus/Satanoperca/GymnoGeophagus/Microgeophagus....

 

[DasArab]

Might be better looking at some less semi aggresive cichlids like sevs(plenty of choice these days other than just green) maybe a syn, possably a single GT, JD(from what ive read their bark is worse than their bite, EBJD, Chocolate Cichlid. Would you prefer 1 Fish or a few? For a single fish tank what about a single Parachromis friedrichsthalii? Member of the Jag famly, but hey everyones got a jag, so why not be different?