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pjs

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Nov 6, 2007
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Hi there, I wondered if anyone can help me with this please??

I have a geophagus braz. and a royal clown knife fish (along with a monster plec who isnt a problem) in my main tank. There was a huge gibby who died recently in there as well. While the gibby was alive everyone was all peacefull. Now hes dead my geo is plaguing my knife fish to death. The knife fish used to 'hang out' with the gibby but now hes just being chased all the time by the geo!

I have tried all sorts with the geo, hes really an agressive character! So far hes seen off a large severum, a smaller jack dempsey, and a large tin foil barb (he battered that but the lfs took her back and made her better thank god. I dont want my knife fish to go down the same route as the barb as he was expensive (hes about a foot long) and I like him :(

I was thinking about adding another fish in to distract the geo and help the knife fish... any ideas?

My tank is massive btw so was thinking maby an oscar??

Please help if anyone has any ideas id appreciate it.

Thanks

sara x
 
If its a big tank....... PBASS or large Jack Dempseys
 
Man, I should measure things in metric more often....
400 l is only about 100 gal. I know to most people this is a huge tank, but at MFK its just a baby. Your tank will need to grow up to house the fish that you have. Sorry bud.
 
in 100 gallons, I imagine that is a 5' tank, you should be able to use other beefy south american cichlids as tankmates, chocolates, large acaras, things like that
 
In my experience geo's are not normally overly aggressive, but it may be trying to define a territory in a new environment

One way to have aggressive fish, particulary SA or CA Cichlids, in a small confined space is to grow them up together as juveniles. You're only going to get problems when introducing mature or semi-mature fish into a territory occupied by another territorial predatory fish.

I know that when people do start up an aquarium they will always try to buy the biggest fixh from the LFS but this more than often ends in disaster especially when the fish are introduced individually over a period of time. I've got a mixed SA and CA tank myself including a Mayan, Midas and Jag all approx 3 years old. These fish have all grown uptogether and have virtually never shown aggression toward one another apart from a little flaring. It is also much cheaper stocking a tank this way !!
 
100 gal with a ck i dont think thats big enought, Convicts make good deithers but would probly get eaten by your ck. A jag or festa would look great with a ck and wouldnt get killed but im not sure if the tanks big enougth .
 
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