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HopeFloats

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I have a question for experienced JD keepers. At the present I have a young JD juvenile that is already showing signs of being a pretty aggressive guy / gal. He shares a tank with a young red tail shark without any problems, (the RTS gets out of the way and he doesn't seem to mind it too much on the whole anyway,) but I tried having a synodontis in there with him and he just wanted to beat up on it. So, my question is are there other smaller fish like the Red Tail Shark who will work well with a JD? A two fish tank just seems very empty and depressing. Tank size is 70 gallons.
 
You can try another similar sized cichlid, but one that can fend for itself too. Or add a bunch of dithers. I was gonna suggest a catfish but you say the JD was beating up a syno.
 
I was leaning more towards fish that would act as dithers. It would be nice to have some additional life and movement in the tank along with the big fish without having several big fish to duke it out. The tank is just 4 feet long and I don't want too many large fish in it. I think it might be better to keep him as the single big fish in the tank, as I said, he seems to want to take to anything of a similar size to him or that gets in his way.

What sort of fish would you recommend as dither fish for a JD? I assume they would have to be large enough not to end up as dinner? Or is the dither fish becoming dinner inevitable?
 
Pyramid_Party;3560809; said:
You can try another similar sized cichlid, but one that can fend for itself too. Or add a bunch of dithers. I was gonna suggest a catfish but you say the JD was beating up a syno.
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Yeah, he would just pick at it and I'm not a big fan of putting fish in situations where they have to basically pit fight every day, so she's in another tank now :)
 
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