How does this stocking sound long term?

[glenbo]

100g tank (4ftx2ftx2ft)

1 x Gold Severum
1 x Red Spotted Severum
1 x Gold Saum Green Terror
1 x Geophagus Brasiliensis Bahia Red
1 x Blue Acara
6 x Rainbow Fish
1 x Bristlenose Pleco

All has been good so far except my Brasiniensis beats the crap out of my Green Terror alot....they are both the sameish size ...The Geo is 7" and the Green Terror is 6"...Severums are 9" and 4" and Blue Acara 3"....the Rainbows/Bristleys are fully grown.

The Sevz will occasionally chase stuff but nothing more than that,the Acara just keeps himself to himself.

Some people told me to swap the Blue Acara for a couple of Yellow Labs (which i know are african) is this a good idea?

The Green Terror has been in the tank for a month or 2....I bought him from the LFS where he was in a pair with a female with hundreds of fry....aggressive as hell when i approached the tank! but really beautiful and at £5 was a utter bargain so snapped him up. (felt a bit bad splitting up te family tho!! lol)

 

[glenbo]

Bumpage

 

[djarmstrong]

Persinally i would not put the Geo' in the tank also add a few more Bristlenose Pleco and a couple more Blue Acara . Thats just me tho . But your stock list sound ok too me .

 

[Addikted2Cichlids]

Sounds good maybe throw a Super Red Severum in there too...

 

[glenbo]

Yeh I got a super red (we call them a Red Spotted in the UK)

I also have a baby Rotkeil that I was going to rehome.....you guys think I can keep him to?

My Geo is proper agressive now (I was warned!) So I may swap him for another Blue Acara....but wont the GT breed with them? do i need to get all males? and if i do wont they fight each other?

 

[glenbo]

Bumpage.

 

[glenbo]

Bump

 

[Toby_H]

Blue Acara and Gold Saum look very very similar and will therefore likely have aggression issues between two males...

If the Severums both turn out to be males there is a possibility of aggression issues...

I suggest removing the Gold Saum from the list as it is going to be considerably tougher than the rest... and of the group is the most well known to be an aggressor...

 

[Camphilophus]

it will work! The only fish I'd say to worry about is a breeding green terror so try to get the same sex green terror and acara so you don't end up with a territorial hybrid pair.