Catfish for a central american tank?

[DwarfCichlidLvr]

Fully grown Roseline sharks are around 6in in length.
This is a 8in Oscar eating a 4in Roseline, so yes I can easily see and 12in cichlid eating a 6in torpedo fish with ease.
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WOW. Thanks

 

[LDPatton]

Stanzzzz7 I think you are probably right. I already tried dither fish with all my CA cichlids when they were all very small and less than 4". The dithers always end up gone before 24 hours in the tank. I do have a male convict and I am picking up a female very soon. I like convicts and have kept them before but the other reason I wanted a convict pair was to provide feeder fish. I think I will try some convicts in the 300 tank. My male convict is doing very good in my 150 gallon tank with 2 jags, Texas and a JD. The jag thats going in the 300 is bigger than the other two jags with the convict but the convicts will have more room and hiding spots in the 300. The convicts are for food anyway so if they get picked off no problem and if a few make it and have babies then I will just make sure the convict population is being controlled enough thru predation.

 

[LDPatton]

I want to thank everyone who commented in this thread so far for all the info and providing some ideas and experiences.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Stanzzzz7 I think you are probably right. I already tried dither fish with all my CA cichlids when they were all very small and less than 4". The dithers always end up gone before 24 hours in the tank. I do have a male convict and I am picking up a female very soon. I like convicts and have kept them before but the other reason I wanted a convict pair was to provide feeder fish. I think I will try some convicts in the 300 tank. My male convict is doing very good in my 150 gallon tank with 2 jags, Texas and a JD. The jag thats going in the 300 is bigger than the other two jags with the convict but the convicts will have more room and hiding spots in the 300. The convicts are for food anyway so if they get picked off no problem and if a few make and have babies then I will just make sure the convict population is being controlled enough thru predation.

I think whatever you try cohabiting with a jag, there will always be a certain amount of risk. No scenario will be full proof. I do think a few Convicts will probably be your best chance of a workable solution.
Good luck.

 

[Brazzen1]

Personally I would got out and catch a channel cat. They get to 2ft max but take quite a few years to get that big. Had one with my jag and they got along just fine.

Old post but I’ve caught them at 4’.

 

[duanes]

I just notced that my 1st post in this thread dates back to 2020..
Since that time, I´ve been able to catch a few others that might work with a number of new world cichlids.
Maybe not with predatory species like Parachromis, but I keep them with with omnioves and large vegetarian cichlids.


Above are Sturisomatichthys species caught in water with pH at or above 8.
Below Pimelodus guatamalensus, same pH and hard water.


As you can see caught at about 8¨.
And my favorite geographivally correct alternative to tin foil barbs.
Eucinostoma agrentus

And although I caught these in the Mamoni river(fresh water pH 8.2)
They range fro North Carlonia, and California north, thru all Cenral, and northern S America,
in fresh, brackish, and even ocean water.