Large brightly colored fish for a 75...

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Thanks for all the speedy replies and congrats!!

I personally love the idea of more social fish. We used to have goldfish that would dance at the tank front whenever we'd walk by. So a more interactive fish species would be great.

I would also like to stay away from keeper agressive species. There are too many children around (who don't have enough respect to keep fingers OUT of tanks) and I don't want to have to get rid of my fish due to someone else's kids...This is my first, so I'm extremely excited.

Since I'm pulling the whole Single Parent thing. I won't have too much time to devote to water changes and maintenance. But enough that I can care for a tank, since new babies are irresistable to everyone else. Pawn him/her off on grandma for a little while to do maintenance. lol

Right about now, I'm not sure if I care about growing them out myself, or just getting big fish. There's a pair of Oscars at the LFS that are HUGE that I really like, they're very social as well... $20 each. Albino and Regular colors. I also would get a pleco probably for that tank as well.

Is there anything I could get away with that's smaller with bright colors to break up the empty spaces, that isn't small enough to be Oscar fodder? If not, I'm not too concerned about it...considering the bigger stuff is what the baby's going to see first.

I'm glad I didn't try to get an electric cat or lungfish when I had moved... >_<
 
congrats on the new baby! as far as personality i love my oscar.. if i were you id get those two adult oscars (since im assuming they are already tankmates and tolerate eachother). now sure what size your tank is but a trio of silver dollars would look great!

again, congrats on being a new mommy!
 
The two oscars (providing they're still there) are tankmates, and there was no damage on either fish, so I'm assuming they got along, and they even interacted with me through the tank side. they were being housed in something smaller than my 75, not sure what though, with a lung, and something else, can't remember what. but they were gorgeous!!

what exactly are cigar barbs? I've never heard of them before.
 
I'd go with the Oscars and a common plec (just go for at least double the reccommended filtration!) My 4yo loves my Oscars, they beg at the glass and eat from hand. (My clarias pair do too and they could be another suggestion. Not sure about em in a 75 though)
 
screw the pleco... it isn't worth the horrendous poop... especially since you won't have a whole lot of time with it.

I would go with cichlids smaller than oscars... like a GT, JD, Convict, Salvini, Firemouth, severums... like three of those and then a group of schooling fish (giant danios, tiger barbs, ect).

or maybe a few spotted pictus instead of the schooling fish.


I would honestly go with severums than oscars. They come in a few colors (yellow, green turqouis, red shoulder, ect ect), they get decent sized but not like an oscar, they aren't as aggressive as oscars, they aren't as messy as oscars, and IMO are pretty personable cichlids. This way you could put some ground guys or schooling guys and won't have the extreme bio load of 2 oscars and a plec and thus less maintanance.

just my.2
 
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