general questions about moving young gg

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aliaz666

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Hey guys, we are planning on soon moving our little pink gg and i was just wondering if anyone can give us some advice about a few things
1. Floating plants - Do they need plants to be happy, do they need to be floating, what are some good ones to use and will the floating plants bother my ca/sa cichlids?
2. Tankmates & aggression - would a smaller gg get along with a dominant 8 inch oscar, would smaller, more aggressive sa/ca cichlids be able to do him permanent damage such as nipping his whiskers off?
Thanks!
 
dude id be worried with the tankmates hed be going in with

not ready to be an agg community fish at that size

when you intro a new fish to your tank it will kick off a heirarchy chain reaction, nipping chasing flaring ect to see who keeps/loses their spot in the food chain, your cons for example would be the worst offenders in this case (1.5" cons have killed two diffent 3" oscars of mine overnight)

also stress alone is a big factor goin from no tankmates to 8+, you could swap out some of the smaller cichlids to a grow out for a while untill the gg is settled in then move them back

i reckon you should end up with your gg, pleco, oscar, sevs and other peacefull cichlids in your big tank and aggressive cichlids in another, def untill gg is the biggest anyways

i dont wanna see your gg dead thats all
 
Thanks dude, we agree and we're waiting a little longer and seeing what happens now as we took out the sev and convict the other day and also we figure the gg still has a little time before he is too big for the tank he's in now..
Did you hear lj is getting rid of fillets? :(
Old shane said he got the smaller RTGG that was in with him and pinned it against the glass and mercilessly pounded it to death the other day and he doesnt like him anyways.. I was under the impression that he was lukes?
Man we saw a tank that had just been finished for someone while we were there the other day and it was 6ft x just over a meter (shanes words not mine!) and about 2 ft high and i swear he said it was only $700?
That'd do us!
 
In answer to your questions

1 Eventually your GG will eat the plants. I haven't bothered with plants and others I know rearing GG's also don't bother.

2 GG's can be very territorial - I know of one who killed an O bigger than he was, he essentially dominates the whole tank. My adult can tolerate other tank mates but if he wants to he lets them know who's boss. Yours will probably hold his own ground with the cichlid tankmates but the only way to know for sure is to try it. Just make sure you have a quarantine tank for if it goes bad.
 
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