Do you have unusual tankmates?

[Grover]

How about some unusual combinations of tank mates? I used to have an Oscar and White Cloud tetra. The WC would follow the Oscar like a little puppy and the Oscar never ate him. I only fed the Oscar pellets and frozen food so maybe he didn't realize the WC was supposed to be food. I like to think he was just looking after his little buddy. The white cloud died after about a year ( of natural causes?) and I was going to try another WC. I bought the new WC but while I was floating the bag in the tank the oscar was trying to eat him so I put him in another tank. I would love to hear more stories of this kind of thing.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

mine doesn't compare to that, but I keep a festivum with black belt, polleni, dempsey, and convict...I thought it would get shreded but it's held its own.

 

[cichlid2006]

i added two 1.5" juvenile uaru into a tank with a 6" male GT and the GT guarded them rather than eat them. he even protected them from the clown loaches i had.

I added a 2.5" GT into a tank with my 8" midas. she is hitting 9" now and the GT is about 4". the midas also resides with senegal bichirs, the smallest being 3" when i added them in with her. all are alive and thriving.

 

[TwistedPenguin]

I've had great luck using 1" cichlid fry in my Oscar tanks as cleaner-uppers. Little tiny Texas's, Firemouths, Convicts, Geos.....I've used about all of them. For some reason none of my 6 Oscars even act like they see them, they totally ignore them. Which goes against what everyone 'claims' about Oscars.

 

[djb]

id had a feeder crayfish in my tank for about a year now housed with a 5 inch jag 5 inch motaguense and a 5inch savni pick cichlid thing walks around but they dont bother it

 

[Adhlc]

To me, the combination isn't too unusual, but anyone who comes over and sees swordtails with my large Argentea thinks I'm crazy.

 

[abarilot]

Well they arent cichlids but my Leopard Ctenopoma has a crush on my SA lungfish. The ctenopoma will follow my SAL all around the tank, breath air after the SAL does, and sometimes sit on top of or next to my SAL.

 

[djarmstrong]

I have a 8- 9 inch Oscar and Jag' in with a three 3- 4inch Catfish and with a 4inch ish Firemouth Cichlid and other smaller fish . Perfectly fine all my fish are with each other .

 

[TrikkyMakk]

I currently have 4 cory cats in with my 2 GT, 1 JD and 1 Rio Grande. When I first put them in my main GT looked like she was going to kill them but then just ignores them now.

My Rio Grande likes to follow them around because he figured out that usually when they are bunched together it is because they are eating something and so he will then steal whatever it is they have.

 

[k0y0te]

i house a raidtail shark with Pearsei.
an up side down catfish with a green terror
ottos with blood parrots.

i guess mine not to strange. they been getting along with one another for a long long time. lol