Could I have some helpful hints for tank size

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brigri

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IFirst off, I am well aware I will need a larger tank so I need your advice. All my fish are juveniles housed in either a 75 or 65 gallon. Their sizes now are irrelevent since i want to buy one tank to fit most of them at adulthood. I am keeping my 75 gallon but probably selling the 65. This is my stock: keep in mind some can go in the 75. Here goes:
Jurapari
gold nugget pleco
black ghost knife
african knife
bichir
pink kissing guorami
jack dempsey
firemouth
jaguar cichlid
tiger oscar
albino tiger oscar
caecillian worm
Thats all of them! your advice is much appreciated
I was thinking around 300+ Am I close?
 
I'm not sure all of those fish are going to work very well together at adult sizes. I'd look into two seperate tanks. One for the cichlids, probablly around a 240, and a tank for the oddballs, around a 120-125 - with room for more.
 
I would be weary of putting the jag in with some of those other cichlids. The dempsy and the oscars might be ok if your tank is big enough. But the jura and the firemouth will probably be killed . I've seen dempsys kept with jags, but have also seen jags kill dempsys. The oscars have size going for them so there probably fine. Jags are useually tough fish and I found the best tank mates for them are red devils and trimacs also salvinis work if there raised together with the jag and you have a male and female pair.
 
have you read up much on jaguars?? you could potentially need a 125 for him alone if you get one that lives upto their reputation of being so nasty, which many will. a male jag could easily reach well over 12" and will be capable of destroying every last thing in that tank. a female jag will still reach around a foot and be able to take anything and everything down.


in your 75 i would would the firemouth, jurapari, gourami, african knife and possibly worm since they all have the least chances or surviving against anything else.

your other fish COULD live together in a single tank around 200g maybe, considering the oscars get to be around 12", and the dempsey 10", and the bichir could go anywhere from 12"-30" depending on exactly what species it is.
 
sorry for the derail but what is a cecailian worm?
 
The firemouth is very aggressive. He chases the JD and the Jaguar all over the tank and they dont fight back. He doesnt mess with the jurapari since he is much larger. I think he will be fine with them. Only time will tell
 
brigri;3104701; said:
The firemouth is very aggressive. He chases the JD and the Jaguar all over the tank and they dont fight back. He doesnt mess with the jurapari since he is much larger. I think he will be fine with them. Only time will tell
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Once that Firemouth stops growing around the 5-6" mark, and the Jaguar continues to exceed the 12" mark, your Firemouth will no longer rule the tank.
 
Like everyone is saying , 2 tanks would be best . :)

175 - 200Gal + .
 
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