Hello everyone this is more of a curiosity question than a serious inquiry. However my question is in a 125 gallon could a salvini pair work with a female festae with maybe some dithers? And any ideas of maybe convicts, or other relatively small sa/ca that could work with a female festae in a 125 gallon?
Female festae tankmates
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I think it could work. I've also seen Amphilophus Citrinellus so mild that it was kept with various live bearers. A 125 is plenty of space for a pair of Salvini and Festae can fend for themselves.
I've never kept Salvini or Festae. But I have kept convicts, with a wide variety of fish.
The thing about convicts is you could put a M/F pair in a 125 and they control half of it once they spawned, even with larger tankmates.
Or, you put 6 males in a 125 and they probably wouldn't bother tank mates at all. They'd just bicker amongst themselves.
The thing about convicts is you could put a M/F pair in a 125 and they control half of it once they spawned, even with larger tankmates.
Or, you put 6 males in a 125 and they probably wouldn't bother tank mates at all. They'd just bicker amongst themselves.
Do you think a female jaguar and a female festae could work in a 125? What about a motoguense, (apologize for the spelling if that's incorrect)?
I have no idea if two territorial fish that get that size could co-exist in a tank that size. It's possible I guess. Before I settled on GT's I considered getting a Jag and a pair of convicts in my 135. I figured if I bought all 3 at the same size the Cons would supply the Jag with a constant supply of live food... With appropriate decore I think the adult cons could survive with a full grown jag, but it would be risky. I've heard that jags can gape & suck fish out of cracks/crevices so it's hard to say.
I find in cichlid community tanks, it is best to keep cichlids with different mouth and body shapes together.
In that way there is a chance that they will not see each other as competitors.
But when colors are similar, mouth shapes similar, body types similar, that is when aggression gets intense, because they instinctually recognize, "this dude will try to eat my food", "this blue spangled dude looks like me, so I believe it wants my home, or my girl", "this dude needs to be off my turf.
This is why I never put 2 species of Parachromis together, to different species of Vieja together, nor more than 1 species of Amphilophus together etc etc.
Below even though color was similar, was a tank that worked well. Note the different mouth shapes, bocourti being primarily vegetarian, and Chuco intermedium being insectivorous.
even then, conflicts were inevitable though not serious. Soon after I moved the groups to a from a 150, to a 300 gallon
