Growth/stock ?

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stevelamby

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I am planning to stock my 125 with the following:

1-Oscar
1-GT
1-JD
1-Texas (red variant if I can find one)
1-Severum (maybe)


1) Is this too much?
2) If I get them all young (2-4") will they be ok together? Or will the oscar and texas outgrow the others and treat them as snacks?

Also, one of my LFS has what they say are "red texas" for sale, they want $20 for a juvie (2" or so). It shows little to no red, is it possible that it is a red texas for that price? I assumed they were much more expensive and rare.

Thanks!
 
that seems reasonable.the oscar will grow the fastest and keep everyone in check for awhile then you may have to keep an eye on the texas much later.
 
stevelamby;1408144; said:
I am planning to stock my 125 with the following:

1-Oscar
1-GT
1-JD
1-Texas (red variant if I can find one)
1-Severum (maybe)


1) Is this too much?
2) If I get them all young (2-4") will they be ok together? Or will the oscar and texas outgrow the others and treat them as snacks?
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1) Nope, think that looks pretty good.
2) Knowing nothing about Texas, I'd say the Oscar will outgrow everything, but it won't outgrow them enough to make them lunch. Severums grow quite quickly (Mines grown from 3" to 4" in a month) though as primarily a herbivore he might not be ideally suited to a tank with the large mouthed predators you've got in there.

He'll hold his own as they can be quite aggressive fish, but I think that perhaps going for another medium sized predator Cichlid like a Salvini would be a better choice.
 
Not a bad list, but I'd keep an eye on aggression, since the severum and oscar arent that aggressive.
 
The red texas won't get beat up? Will a red texas do well in a tank with festae, jags, carpintis, gt, and other big aggressive fish? (sorry that's a lil off topic, just wondering)

Your mix sounds fine, but the severum may not work.
 
Thanks for the great responses so far! Keep them coming please!
 
The stock list will work as far as bio-load goes. The aggression level is hard to guess what it's going to be like. Essentially you won't know until you try it. As far as Red Texas' are concerned, juvies will still be red. $20 is cheap for that fish, IMO. You should try: http://www.aquascapeonline.com/prodList.asp?idCategory=35 they have very nice "Super Red Texas" in stock for $125 for 3-4" fish. Good luck!
 
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