Getting a 150 :Want cichlids

[titansfever83]

Get rid of the Oscars.
Get some Uarus and Sevs like you said.
Add some Geophagus Redheads- N E Cichlids has some.
And get some Black Barred Silver Dollars from Jeff Rapps!


Thats how I would do it

 

[Cichla dude]

Get rid of the Oscars.
Get some Uarus and Sevs like you said.
Add some Geophagus Redheads- N E Cichlids has some.
And get some Black Barred Silver Dollars from Jeff Rapps!


Thats how I would do it

How about this????
2x Oscars
2x Severums
1 Geo Redhead(Love there color)
1 geo Jurapi(Love these guys)
2 Uaru A.(Panda ones)
And 3 Black Barred Guys
Also these guys will live with a silver aro, and some hifin synos.

 

[HPIZZLE]

How about this????
2x Oscars
2x Severums
1 Geo Redhead(Love there color)
1 geo Jurapi(Love these guys)
2 Uaru A.(Panda ones)
And 3 Black Barred Guys
Also these guys will live with a silver aro, and some hifin synos.

thats good, but are you gonna upgrade again?
and what are the dimensions on that particular tank?

 

[Bderick67]

isnt that tank to small for a silver aro for a perminant tank? or are you going to upgrade in the future?

Pretty good chance the aro will not survive, so no upgrade needed.

 

[titansfever83]

How about this????
2x Oscars
2x Severums
1 Geo Redhead(Love there color)
1 geo Jurapi(Love these guys)
2 Uaru A.(Panda ones)
And 3 Black Barred Guys
Also these guys will live with a silver aro, and some hifin synos.

When it comes down to it, its what you will be happy with! From what you posted here is what I see will happen. The Oscars will bully all the other cichlids. The one redhead and jurupari will have small fights and of course you know the Aro will need upgrading very soon.

Just pick what you want and research them before purchasing so you can provide them a nice long and comfortable life.

 

[Cichla dude]

When it comes down to it, its what you will be happy with! From what you posted here is what I see will happen. The Oscars will bully all the other cichlids. The one redhead and jurupari will have small fights and of course you know the Aro will need upgrading very soon.

Just pick what you want and research them before purchasing so you can provide them a nice long and comfortable life.

I am going to try and get the other cichlids to be bigger than the O'S. Meaning that I will be buy the cichlids bigger than the oscar. I'm thinking of getting 2 redheads, and 2 jurupari instead of just 1 apiece. Yes I know that I need to upgrade the aro. They'll have good lifes. So here's what I got planned to go in my 150:
2 Geo. Jurupari
2 geo Redheads
2 Uaru
2 Severums
2 Oscars
2 RedhookSD and 2 Black Barred
1 Silver Arowana
1 Fire EEL
And My Catfish!
Yes I will upgade the Aro and eel when they get bigger.

 

[titansfever83]

I am going to try and get the other cichlids to be bigger than the O'S. Meaning that I will be buy the cichlids bigger than the oscar. I'm thinking of getting 2 redheads, and 2 jurupari instead of just 1 apiece. Yes I know that I need to upgrade the aro. They'll have good lifes. So here's what I got planned to go in my 150:
2 Geo. Jurupari
2 geo Redheads
2 Uaru
2 Severums
2 Oscars
2 RedhookSD and 2 Black Barred
1 Silver Arowana
1 Fire EEL
And My Catfish!
Yes I will upgade the Aro and eel when they get bigger.

Sounds like a nice tank but I do think the Oscars will have to go in the near future. If you get the red heads and jurupari bigger than the Uaru and sevs then you should be fine. The Uarus and sevs grow very quick and will definitely hog the food at feeding time.

 

[oldcolony]

sounds like a nice looking tank. but 150 is small for all those wonderful fish

 

[Cichla dude]

Sounds like a nice tank but I do think the Oscars will have to go in the near future. If you get the red heads and jurupari bigger than the Uaru and sevs then you should be fine. The Uarus and sevs grow very quick and will definitely hog the food at feeding time.

Ok cool. Thanks for all your info!

 

[CTU2fan]

The only things I'd tweak with that stocking is maybe getting either 4 red hooks or 4 SD's rather than 2 & 2...they do better in bigger groups so that might work out better for you. Same with the geos, but I don't think it's as big of a deal as with the hooks/SD's.

Yes the oscars might eventually need to go, if you plan on upgrading the aro you could move the O's along with it; I'm sure they'd appreciate the space.