Is this a weird combination?

[sstromerson]

So I am wondering if this is a weird combo of fish to be held together and actually doing well in a 90g?

7" Pleco
6" Female Festae
5" Male Jack Dempsey
3" Belly Crawler Pike
5 adult tiger barbs
5 adult red eye tetras
3 yo yo loaches about 1"

The pleco, festae and dempsey have been living together for almost a year. The tiger barbs and tetras were put in as dithers a little over 2 months ago. The Pike and the loaches have been in there about a month.

 

[fisher12889]

I don't think your current setup will last long, that festae could easily take over that entire tank.

 

[sstromerson]

Ya I figure that will happen eventually. But as for now the festae only tries to pick on the pleco and the pike but the Jack Dempsey is kind of the peace keeper. Maybe because the Dempsey was in the tank like a month before the festae but the festae is afraid of the dempsey

 

[fishluvr12]

My dempsey used to rule my 135 gal and also tries to be the peace keeper.But now that My festae are older and the male larger it's a differen't story.

 

[sstromerson]

Ya, my festae got bigger than the dempsey really fast. I'm hoping that she doesn't snap and try and kill everything in the tank like I've heard of festaes doing. I would be completely ok with her being that aggressive because that would be entertaining but I want her to wait until I have somewhere to put the dempsey and pike before she does that.