Is my 75 gallon tank overstocked?

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Nice avatar!! Now i'm having second thoughts of getting a chocolate cichlid instead LOL

Ha, my avatar is horribly taken with the glare on the glass and the blur. The fish is a Paraneetroplus Breidohri, if you wanted to know. As for chocolates, they change color. Sometimes they can be a milk chocolate brown (hence their name) and sometimes a deep cherry red with emerald green. Or sometimes even a dark green with dark crimson.
 
I swear i was gonna suggest one no lie. Since you were settled i figured to leave it be.

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Yes I'll take that into consideration that's for sure! I heard chocolates have great personality but bio-load at par with the Oscar?

Ha, my avatar is horribly taken with the glare on the glass and the blur. The fish is a Paraneetroplus Breidohri, if you wanted to know. As for chocolates, they change color. Sometimes they can be a milk chocolate brown (hence their name) and sometimes a deep cherry red with emerald green. Or sometimes even a dark green with dark crimson.

Oops. My bad. My novice eyes (in fish terms) could have sworn I saw a chocolate cichlid. But I appreciate the information. Can such fish of yours live in a 75 gallon tank, with schooling fish, for life?
 
Yes I'll take that into consideration that's for sure! I heard chocolates have great personality but bio-load at par with the Oscar?


Oops. My bad. My novice eyes (in fish terms) could have sworn I saw a chocolate cichlid. But I appreciate the information. Can such fish of yours live in a 75 gallon tank, with schooling fish, for life?

Interested in seeing his response. I Keeping some vieja heterospilus in a 150 gal comm and a vieja argentea in a 75 i hope for life but they arent super fast growers in my experience. I would go with what others like fluffy say though on the tank size. Mine are still juvies and wouldnt want to give advise on something i dont have experience with

Bio load can be adjuested (with in reason) feed less use plants/purigen, increase wc

Check out heterospilus from what i under stand they are on the smaller side maybe 8 to 10 inches. And would do good in a 75 With dithers.

Not my pic but im hoping my guy ends up like this
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My fish they are slow growers too
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Yes I'll take that into consideration that's for sure! I heard chocolates have great personality but bio-load at par with the Oscar?



Oops. My bad. My novice eyes (in fish terms) could have sworn I saw a chocolate cichlid. But I appreciate the information. Can such fish of yours live in a 75 gallon tank, with schooling fish, for life?

Likely.
 
I think your set up sounds fine. My only worry would be the shark in the future. I currently keep two sevs in a 75 with one small pleco (will grow to 7 inches only) and five blackskirt tetras (and one raspora I can't catch!). I have an AC 110 and an Eheim 2215 and a large sponge filter running on it and don't have any issues with the bio-load so far. My Sevs were apparently wild caught so the aggression level is higher than domestic sevs I think. I may have to rehome the smaller sev eventually. Currently they are 4 and 3 inches, and starting to grow up nicely (began at 2 and 1.5 inches a few months ago). The larger one sometimes beats on the the little one, but she(?) also fights back and is more of the aggressive eater. Interesting tank dynamic anyway. I am monitoring them closely and may rehome her or put her in a spare tank. They don't bother the schooling fish or pleco. They seem to be conspecific aggressors. I had a third sev in there initially which is now in a 125 with an oscar three times his size and he holds his own just fine. He use to terrorize the other two even when tiny. I have learned to think of Sevs as selectively aggressive, in any case, and not the peaceful fish they are often said to be.

BTW, I am the guy that got Jaw's Obic. A cool fish indeed. :)
 
I think your set up sounds fine. My only worry would be the shark in the future. I currently keep two sevs in a 75 with one small pleco (will grow to 7 inches only) and five blackskirt tetras (and one raspora I can't catch!). I have an AC 110 and an Eheim 2215 and a large sponge filter running on it and don't have any issues with the bio-load so far. My Sevs were apparently wild caught so the aggression level is higher than domestic sevs I think. I may have to rehome the smaller sev eventually. Currently they are 4 and 3 inches, and starting to grow up nicely (began at 2 and 1.5 inches a few months ago). The larger one sometimes beats on the the little one, but she(?) also fights back and is more of the aggressive eater. Interesting tank dynamic anyway. I am monitoring them closely and may rehome her or put her in a spare tank. They don't bother the schooling fish or pleco. They seem to be conspecific aggressors. I had a third sev in their initially which is now in a 125 with an oscar three times his size and he holds his own just fine. He use to terrorize the other two even when tiny. I have learned to think of Sevs as selectively aggressive, in any case, and not the peaceful fish they are often said to be.

BTW, I am the guy that got Jaw's Obic. A cool fish indeed. :)

Wow congrats on the O!! I have a lot more going on in terms of schooling fish so I'm ruling out a severum pair but I think one male red severum in a tank full of roaming schools has the potential to be a cool and active tank. I do believe wild caught specimens are more likely to show aggression than their captive counterparts for survival purposes. Whereas, captive bred specimens are spoon fed since day 1 so the 'killer instinct' may have diminished. I'm hoping number 1, for a male severum (cause I intend to buy an inch or two fry. You think the tiger barbs would nip at a small sev?), and number 2, a calm temperament.

Thank you for all your inputs. I came to this forum for stocking guidance and I learned so much more than that. Cheers!!
 
Yes, I think you are right to go with one sev given your stocking idea; I just thought you might be interested to know that they seem to leave the non-cichlids alone and aren't murder on the bio-load (unlike my BB Oscar!). From what I have been told it is very difficult to sex baby Sevs. The males are suppose to have more of the metallic green coloring on the face, but that is for the greens and wilds, I am not sure about the reds. Best bet, going blind would be to pick the largest fish from the tank (or at least one of the larger ones) as the males tend to grow faster. Good luck! Be sure to post pictures.
 
Thank you for all your inputs. I came to this forum for stocking guidance and I learned so much more than that. Cheers!!

Lol i think allot get our education the same way

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Just went out to LFS to get a super red severum but I came across a stressed 2 inch green terror sitting in a corner and housed with much larger juvenile motaguenses. So in short I ended up bringing the GT home.

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I'm thinking female because of its elongated body and lack of trailers in the dorsal fin although it's too young to be conclusive. What you guys think?

The stocking right now:

1x GT
1x convict
4x cory cats
7x serpae tetra
8x tiger barb

Stocking level still fine?

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I think your cool....and i love gts never got around to owning one. Just test your water as they grow. I keep purigen in all my tanks look into it.

You never know how the aggression level can change as they grow may not bother anyone or become a s.o.b

Clean water plenty of things to break line of sight

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