Fish Stocking Advice

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mdi2001

Jack Dempsey
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Sep 18, 2009
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I have a 85 gallon 4 foot tank. Well I lost my EBJD and my Texas Cichlid is not looking to good. Bought some fish for my other new tank and cross contaminated, caught a case of culminarous. Soon as my water seems good and all the fish are fine for awhile was thinking about restocking. Right now I have a 4" female nicraguenese and 3" salvini, with 7 rainbowfish. Would like to get rid of he salvini, since it is the most aggresive.
Fish I'm thinking about are
Roktiel Severum, Super Reds
EBJD again
Uaru
Viejas
I really like the Texas Escondido but probably will be too aggresive with the the ones above.
Would like to have like 2-3 medium size cichlids and maybe one large. With lots of color and that can live fine together. Open to any suggestions.
 
severum and ebjd should be good in that tank. You can also try rainbow cichlids, HRP, sajica, or cutteri. Search on cichlid-forum.com under cichlid profile and you should find a lot of useful information.
 
Well I probably over did it for the size of the fish when they get older. But looking to upgrading from my 4' to a 5' or 6' with in next 10 months. I order some rapps fish. Bought a 4" Hoplarchus psittacus
3.5" Crenicichla sveni,
3" Roktiel Severum,
2.5" EBJD (local in San diego)
and kept my 3.5" H. Nicaraguensis
Other than that I have 3 Congo Tetras, 8 various rainbow fish.
the Roktiel is a little shy and Sveni roams everywhere but won't eat pellet food yet. The Nic tried to rule the tank for two days but the Parrot Cichlid is now king. The Parrot cichlid stands his ground but does not chase, real mellow cichlid. My nic colored up real nice after adding everyone, and has calmed down alot. Just acts mellow like everyone else. So far no one is nipping fins or chasing much. My water s good now in both my tanks no fish going out on me. Anybody know how long of a time frame I will be able to keep all these big cichlids in the 85 gallon.
Camera phone so pics suck a little.
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