I want a trimac, got a question

[CTU2fan]

I'm going to need another tank. What I'd like to do is get another decent sized tank (180 or something wider) and have one of my tanks be a somewhat peaceful comm. with my sevs, choc, pinktail chal, florida gar, senegal poly etc...and another with my current CA's (JD and cons) along with a trimac, jag, and maybe V. argentea. But I'm hearing varying reports about trimac aggression...am I likely to fail with this CA comm? If so I suppose I'd just get something like a 75 or 90G with a solo trimac.

Current tank is a 170G (6'x18"x30")

I know people have been successful with aggressive comm's, but I can't recall seeing any featuring trimacs.

 

[TheOscarGuy]

I'm going to need another tank. What I'd like to do is get another decent sized tank (180 or something wider) and have one of my tanks be a somewhat peaceful comm. with my sevs, choc, pinktail chal, florida gar, senegal poly etc...and another with my current CA's (JD and cons) along with a trimac, jag, and maybe V. argentea. But I'm hearing varying reports about trimac aggression...am I likely to fail with this CA comm? If so I suppose I'd just get something like a 75 or 90G with a solo trimac.

Current tank is a 170G (6'x18"x30")

I know people have been successful with aggressive comm's, but I can't recall seeing any featuring trimacs.

It depends on the temperament of individual fish -- it may work in tanks, and may not for others. I think in general, I have seen Trimacs are quite aggressive towards each other. For example, I have a large pair in a 125 and the male keeps on beating on the female every chance he gets. I don't know how much the aggression will reduce towards parachromis, vieja.

You can get a few small specimen, and try. If it doesn't work, have them moved to some other tank

 

[Tilapia-mariae]

Definitely personality dependent; best example was last night moving a docile friendly festae and swapping it with a same sized one who hated on anything in proximity. But yes if you want to try it best get a small trimac to try and get him to be happy in some sort of a comm tank.

 

[Aphilophus]

i would save your self the pain and get a 90 solo trimac, this is the best way to keep them any way glass banger, they will not hide always out front cruising if you do get one try and get one with good pattern they look a lot better

 

[CTU2fan]

If I do I will probably buy some small ones...though the argentea complicates it as they grow slower. I'm going to try and work off the model of terd ferguson's old tank which I think was a 190G with multiple parachromis pairs...hoping that with the cons, JD, and other growouts things will work.

Would it be worth it to add dithers in that scenario?

 

[CTU2fan]

i would save your self the pain and get a 90 solo trimac, this is the best way to keep them any way glass banger, they will not hide always out front cruising if you do get one try and get one with good pattern they look a lot better

What I'll probably do is get a group from somewhere and pick the nicest male, if I go the solo wetpet route.

 

[D-Train]

I think if kept with large equally aggressive fish, and given an adequate territory you should be fine, a trimac with jags, motags, carpinte, Red Devil/Midas should work out as long as you give each fish the space it deserves. Target/dither fish cant hurt either.

 

[perfect_prefect]

dithers are a great thing. keep my aggro to a minimum. but dont do the gar. all it will be is a dither that cant get away like others can. gars shouldnt be kept with cichlids they get picked on way too much.

 

[heavyhitter]

I have never been able to keep any large male "Amphilophus Sp" with any other cichlids. Ive tried it in 180g and 125g with plenty of dithers but still the Amphilophus complex trys to kill the others.

 

[CTU2fan]

Hmm so basically it might work, might not work. Maybe I'll just wait and see what comes along re: tank deals, and go from there (ie if I see a good deal on a 90 then solo trimac etc).

dithers are a great thing. keep my aggro to a minimum. but dont do the gar. all it will be is a dither that cant get away like others can. gars shouldnt be kept with cichlids they get picked on way too much.

Oh no my gar will be with the peaceful fish he's in with now. I have a couple of mad barbs that I might use as dithers, they get big and are very fast.