Hi! First Post! I would love your input on new tank!
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I would try to add these all at the same time. Be prepared to move out a troublemaker.
1. Festae
2. Jaguar or Freddie
3. Jack Dempsey
4. Green Terror
5. Synspillum
6. Salvini
7. Some Con or HRP as dithers
I have no experience with the African Polleni.
No way to the Butti.
....Bill
1. Festae
2. Jaguar or Freddie
3. Jack Dempsey
4. Green Terror
5. Synspillum
6. Salvini
7. Some Con or HRP as dithers
I have no experience with the African Polleni.
No way to the Butti.
....Bill
I'd shy away from the Butti. They tend to get super aggressive and will more than likely kill a lot of your fish. A LFS near me had a Butti with two 13"+ Oscars and about a 17" RTC and it ended up killing one of the O's and injuring the other two fish pretty badly.
Ok I'll stay away from the Buttiko. Monte said either the freddy or the jaguar, so I'll go Jag. How does list sound?
1. Festae
2. Jaguar
3. Jack Dempsey
4. Green Terror
5. Synspillum
6. Polleni or may Ornatum?
Dither: flag-tail barb (Semaprochilodus taeniurus)
Ps: thanks for all the help guys, it means a lot to me cuz I am so excited for my first real large tank
1. Festae
2. Jaguar
3. Jack Dempsey
4. Green Terror
5. Synspillum
6. Polleni or may Ornatum?
Dither: flag-tail barb (Semaprochilodus taeniurus)
Ps: thanks for all the help guys, it means a lot to me cuz I am so excited for my first real large tank
Definitely no butti, everything else might work depending on the fish. I had a small tank that had half a dozen rosies in it that were there to keep the cycle going. I put a 3/4 inch butti in there and didn't take the rosies out right away because I couldn't catch them. An hour later 4 rosies had they're eyes ripped out and were floating. I have never seen a nastier cichlid. Very cool when adult and in they're own tank though.
Aqualoon;5129916; said:
True. I'm a little worried a festae, jag and Midas getting along in a 300. Festae in a 180 could be tough. If it were me, I'd skip the festae and go with the Freddy instead of the jag. Maybe think about the salvini instead of the festae.
white15;5130256; said:
I consider the 125/150/180 the same size tank, the 150 being a lil taller and the 180 being a lil wider (which all this lets you do is be able to house a fish that gets a bit bigger). In the end you're still working with a 6' tank and when I see a Festae and a Jag with other fish in this small of a tank it's more or less a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
Being the owner of a 150 I have the same issue as you do, however instead of trying to force what I want to work, I have asked the advice of others on here as I really really wanted a Festae too.
If you're dead set on having a Festae then dedicate the entire tank to them, it's pretty much an all or nothing type of thing with a 180g. If you want a nice community then you'll want to adjust your stock. I went the second route and really enjoy my cichlids and non-cichlids in the tank.
Get some Festaes....some Synspilums and a GT and maybe a RD....so the tank gets all kinds of colors 
