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bout a jaguar in a 75 gallon? read my quaries and see would it be good for me. my list of things i want in fish is first post on page 1 and can you tell me would a jagaur cichlid be good. cause they look awesome
 
surprised no one has touched on this basis yet. but it all depends on the temperment of the fish is it will tolerate tank mates for sure. My 10 inch midas i have will smash any thing in his tank and has allways been that way. I have a freind that has a large 12 or so never measured male midas that is very passive and lives with a shoal of tiger barbs in a 90 gallon and pays them no attention. But it most cases they are vile scale shreading machines. Red devil the same temperment in the same family of fish which is Amphilophus family. You were talking about jd's which are super buitifull fish for sure. and are less aggressive or lets so more tolerable of other fish. The last male jd i had lived peacefully with a delhezi bichir both at around 10 inches till the time they got moved around to different tanks. But the down fall of jd's is that they are laim every one i have ever owned has only been super active when the lights are out. flower horns are a option pretty much the same care as a red devil or midas except they are way more fragile to water quility and changes to water parimiters. My choose for a 75 for you as a beginner would be a oscar sence they seem to be one of the most neglected common cichlid ever and are very resilent to beginners mistakes and dont need perfect water quility. Not that i dont think that you can handle a 75 gallon tank. Just saying tons of di-ks use them to cycle tanks with so that says it all there. Try to do that with a high end king kamfa or something and it will be a costly mistake. My advice to you is go onto youtube and watch a bunch of vids of the fish you have picked in your head. Decide what you like for looks and personality. Do the research on what it needs for a suitable home, and go from there. Good luck allso jeff raps had red wolf fish a couple weeks ago. www.tangledupincichlids.com and will have or can get you the best of any of the specie of cichlid you decide to go with. and is a super shipper and great guy to deal with.
 
thank you skillzozeou or wat ev ima go with most definently a tiger oscar but still any bichirs safe to go with it or bottom dwellers that live full life 75 gallon tank?
 
cause well dam those red wolf fish look ****in awesome and make cool kills and would look great but not sure tho if it go with a tiger oscar 75 gallon. maybe his personallity turns out nice or killer but anyways wouldnt it be fine though with a bichir or reddie since 75 offers alot of space for it to hide in away from oscar. o and I want to start off with a very young oscar idk 1-3 inches and I know they grow fast but would a bichir or red wolf youngsterr go with a oscar that big since they both youngsters?
 
predator1 said:
cause well dam those red wolf fish look ****in awesome and make cool kills and would look great but not sure tho if it go with a tiger oscar 75 gallon. maybe his personallity turns out nice or killer but anyways wouldnt it be fine though with a bichir or reddie since 75 offers alot of space for it to hide in away from oscar. o and I want to start off with a very young oscar idk 1-3 inches and I know they grow fast but would a bichir or red wolf youngsterr go with a oscar that big since they both youngsters?
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I would worry about a oscar hiding from a wolf fish not the other way around. If it wanted to can shread just about any thing pretty quick wolf fish have a serious mouth full of sharp objects. I have never owned one so i can not personaully speak for its temperment or personality. deffenitly a deadly fish thow. oscars on the other hand are pretty much all bark as far as the large cichlids go they will get there a-s handed to them by by pretty much any thing else you are looking at. I have owned a bunch of them. they are super cool and dog like wet pets. If i was you and a oscar is deffenitly what you want. Look around and find a decent sized one 7 inches or so that can be sexed and get a female. They get pretty beafy and will make a 75 seem pretty small. Should be fine with a small growing birchir as in delhezi, sengal, and a couple others that stay small enough for a 75 for life. If you typing reddie you meant freddie. that is allso a pretty mean cichlid that depending on temperment will kick the hell out of the oscar to. In the end wich ever one is dominent is going to beat the other one. Just on the basis that a 75 is only big enough for one large cichlids territory at adult size. Food for thought a bichir such as a del will die from stress of being bullied before they will ever die from the abuse. the have some seriously thick body plating and a serious set of teeth of there own if they dont want to play nice. the tank set up i was talking about before with the jd and the del. At first the jd would try to beat up the delhezi with pretty much constant bullying and not as much of a torn fin. Hope that helps. Allso food for thought moving one large fish from place to place is enough of a pain with out trying to do it to a few different ones. some in this case of you moving to college or what not less will be better. again good luck i hope this makes sence to you.
 
thanks again but 75 gallons soooooooooooo big and oscars are big but not that much you know what i mean! youtube shows a bunch of a single oscars in 75 gallons 80 gallons alone just sitting in coner thats only 2 years old and some only 1 year old and people are saying there boring when they get old! and people say they only move when older to get food! i dont want a fish like that! this true?
 
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