Jardini Minimum Tank Size
- Thread starter Pile_O_Rocks
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Minimum 6x2x2 would work. If bigger then always better.
A black nasty cichlid, fahaka puffer, oscar, red devil, , larger bichir species, flowerhorn, datnoid, payara, umbee cichlid, red terror, a zebra pike cichlid, a jaguar cichlid, a tilapia, etc.
I’d love something intereactive. Don’t care how active it is. Preferably aggressive so you have to keep it in a single specimen tank. I’d like it to fit the tank well. I don’t want something you could just keep in a 180 instead.
8x2x2 offers a lot of good options. Almost any cichlid would be comfortable in that tank for life save for the real biguns like peacock bass which could potentially outgrow it.
A jaguar cichlid would be my choice, or perhaps one of the larger growing amphilophus like chancho or hogaboomarum.
I would go with large cichlids then, interesting enough to do as a single specimen. What will "fit" in a 180 will just be a lot happier with the extra space in an 8x2x2. As suggested above Amphliophus or Parachromis would be your best bets! Many people have had interactive specimens of these genera.
I'm going with large cichlids too, I'd say an oscar or red devil. A fahaka puffer is also really active and very aggressive, but it needs hard shelled foods so that may or may not be an issue (depending on how easily you can get snails, clams, crayfish, prawn, etc.)