Do you have unusual tankmates?

[DMD123]

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.

That is awesome!

I have been on the fence about adding another fish with my Midas. He is 4.5" and pretty easy going. He has 6 Buenos Aries Tetras as dithers with him, and he leaves them alone. He also has a Marble Sailfin Pleco as a tankmate. He will push the pleco around a little bit but will not bite him.

I was totally thinking about adding a GT. Its nice to know it worked out for you. The only problem is how would this combo work in my 65g growout? Or should I just wait a month or two till my 120g is set up? By then my midas will be in the 5.5 to 6" range at the rate he is going!

 

[golcondorus]

i have guppys with a BGK

 

[RedH2O]

I have a 2" Giant Danio with my 10" oscar, 7" Jaguar, 4" trimac in a 240gal. He waits till the oscar makes a mess and swims around him eating the scraps. The funny thing is that he will actually become some what aggressive and chase the trimac"trimac not knowing he is there" and trys to act tough.

 

[flowerpower]

I don't know if these are unusual tankmates but what's currently going on in my 180 certainly is:
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[mamapuff]

I have 5 discus, 6 clown loaches, a female betta, 2 banjo cats, 1 kuhli loach, Atya Gabonensis or 'Vampire shrimp", 10 kribensis fry, a half eaten dwarf gourami, a senegal bichir, ... i think thats it in that tank.

In another I have parrots (BP and KKP), african brown knife, black ghost knife, 2 nandus, 2 Dragon Gobies, a super red severum, 2 gold severums, one green severum, one rotkeil severum. one pleco, 2 butterfly cichlids, 17 clown loaches. one syno, one upside down cat, one senegal bichir, one dojo loach, one albino channel cat, (soon going to a new home, he and his tankmates were rescued from a bucket and a bubble last week) 3 ID cat juvies, one lima shovel nose cat. I think thats it...

 

[Glasman]

I once had 3 male bettas in a VERY heavily planted 20 high. They rarely fought and pretty much avoided each other. I tried it just to say i did it.

 

[GOLIATH]

My 28" Amazon Catfish & 22" Marble Cat sleeping with all my Bichirs, Lungfish, 22" Arowana's, Firemouths and Cichlids. It's a freak show...

 

[Grover]

I don't know if these are unusual tankmates but what's currently going on in my 180 certainly is:
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Amazing they don't kill each other!

 

[cichlid2006]

That is awesome!

I have been on the fence about adding another fish with my Midas. He is 4.5" and pretty easy going. He has 6 Buenos Aries Tetras as dithers with him, and he leaves them alone. He also has a Marble Sailfin Pleco as a tankmate. He will push the pleco around a little bit but will not bite him.

I was totally thinking about adding a GT. Its nice to know it worked out for you. The only problem is how would this combo work in my 65g growout? Or should I just wait a month or two till my 120g is set up? By then my midas will be in the 5.5 to 6" range at the rate he is going!

ive got to admit i wasnt sure about adding tankmates because of the horror stories you read and hear about midas. if your going to try a GT make sure you have a net handy and alternative accomodation for the GT. if you are going to try it then i suggest you do it now while the midas is still small.
if your 120 is a 4x2x2 and the 65 is a 4ft tank then its not going to make much difference if you do it now or later as the actual footprint or territory wont change much. i would personally go for it now because the bigger that midas gets the chances of housing cichlids with him get smaller.

good luck if you do go ahead with it.

 

[Otherone]

I have 5 discus, 6 clown loaches, a female betta, 2 banjo cats, 1 kuhli loach, Atya Gabonensis or 'Vampire shrimp", 10 kribensis fry, a half eaten dwarf gourami, a senegal bichir, ... i think thats it in that tank.

In another I have parrots (BP and KKP), african brown knife, black ghost knife, 2 nandus, 2 Dragon Gobies, a super red severum, 2 gold severums, one green severum, one rotkeil severum. one pleco, 2 butterfly cichlids, 17 clown loaches. one syno, one upside down cat, one senegal bichir, one dojo loach, one albino channel cat, (soon going to a new home, he and his tankmates were rescued from a bucket and a bubble last week) 3 ID cat juvies, one lima shovel nose cat. I think thats it...

This is very unusual to me on many levels. 2x Knife Fish - wonder how these guys find food in the same tank, their sonars should theoretically cancel each others out. 2x Brackish Gobies in freshwater. A channel cat - I'd assume that the smaller fish would be snack food and the dojo like a worm. And - Who says Discus need pristine water - I'll bet the half eaten Gourami wish's they did.

Very unusal stocklist - my hats of to ya, hope it all works out well.