Idea for indoor pond ecosystem

[nathanzhang]

Hey guys im new here, just moved to a new house with a huge basement, still in the planning stage but I am planning to have a 15*10*5 feet rectangular pond that will be an ecosystem, I will try to have breeding colonies of all the species below and will be fine if one or two get killed or eaten.

100 sword tails
100 platies
50 convicts
7 black barred silver dollar
2 jaguar
2 festae
2 red devil
2 umbee
2 dovii
4 crechcichla strigata
4 cichla monoculus

 

[Red_Man]

Hey! Welcome!!!

One or two being eaten?? The monos might make it all of them! lol
You would need to provide a killer setup of cover for the smaller species to survive. Floating plants, rocks, and driftwood. There have been a few members that have pulled off feats of little fish kept with Monsters, but unfortunately the stories tend to lean the other direction.

 

[nathanzhang]

is the tank big enough to curtail the dovii and umbees aggression though
i heard that convicts are survivors and yes there will be plenty of hiding spots

 

[matthewr262]

is the tank big enough to curtail the dovii and umbees aggression though
i heard that convicts are survivors and yes there will be plenty of hiding spots

Once I put my mono in my indoor pond, convicts disappeared. Even with hiding spaces. He hasn't found the guppies yet. At least not all of them.

 

[MHDevelopments]

Have you considered building the pond with a kind of physical break, an adjoining pond is open to the main one but only at the surface by maybe 12", I don't know. This prevents easy access across the physical break for the large predators, like a dam almost I guess, but allows the small sp. to move freely if they wish, in theory allowing the live bearers and smaller cichlids etc a break if they want to have one and can breed in safety, running the gauntlet when they cross the break.

 

[Frank Castle]

Have you considered building the pond with a kind of physical break, an adjoining pond is open to the main one but only at the surface by maybe 12", I don't know. This prevents easy access across the physical break for the large predators, like a dam almost I guess, but allows the small sp. to move freely if they wish, in theory allowing the live bearers and smaller cichlids etc a break if they want to have one and can breed in safety, running the gauntlet when they cross the break.

that is an AWESOME idea. Start out keeping the bigger and smaller separated so they get a feel for home - where they are safe, then if they wanna cross borders, that's on them. My advice is breed your own Convicts for sure and have you thought about viewing windows?

 

[nathanzhang]

Yeah, I will do what MHDevelopments said thank you very much, I have also decided to edit the stock list so it will be more friendly to the convicts and live bearers so here it goes
2 festae
2 red devil
2 dovii
2 umbee
2 trimac
2 motaguese
2 jaguar
2 parachromis freddy
2 crenicichla strigata
2 butties
2 black belt
2 vieja argentea
2 vieja fenestratus
2 vieja zonatus
30 convicts
100 swordtails/platies

Have you considered building the pond with a kind of physical break, an adjoining pond is open to the main one but only at the surface by maybe 12", I don't know. This prevents easy access across the physical break for the large predators, like a dam almost I guess, but allows the small sp. to move freely if they wish, in theory allowing the live bearers and smaller cichlids etc a break if they want to have one and can breed in safety, running the gauntlet when they cross the break.

 

[nathanzhang]

will my pond be able to curtail aggresion for my stock list above?