Lost my large texas

[cor]

I recently got a 125g and took my fish from my 55g and my 46g bow front and put them all into the 125. My 9" JD male and 6" texas had been in different tanks. I guess to large and powerful SA/CA fish couldn't live together in even that big of a tank. Kinda sad

 

[haynchinook334]

SORRY for your lost bro.

 

[TwistedPenguin]

What a shame, I'm sorry. I agree-a 6' tank is seldom big enough for 2 mature male Cichlids.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Sorry dude.

Did you cycle the 125? Or add mature filters?

If not it could have been a nitrite spike, which killed your texas.

 

[cor]

I'm starting to think the only way to keep multiple large new world cichlids together is to raise them together instead of having a territory dispute that ends in death. I love the personality of CA/SA's but am starting to think African's might be the way to go.

It was for sure the JD that killed the Texas as they had been fighting A LOT. I did add 3 cycled filters and the substrate from the other tanks.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Try dithers next time.

 

[Allan01230]

Yes you need at least a 150 to keep two adult cichlids together without fighting. Unless you really crowd them in but that is hard on water quality. I have large Geophagus Altrifons (3) in a 90 and they are wimps compared to your fish and they fight all the time.

 

[pdbrady]

It's not the gallons that would be the issue. It's the lack of tankmates. You have to be extremely creative to get away with just two individual, mature cichlids together. Especially when they're use to being alone, and male. Decor must be full, and you almost want it to form breaks in the tank so that they don't really see each other much. Dithers and/or additional cichlids are your best bet though. You need other fish to take the focus of those two off each other. Even though it was not the most ideal way, chalk one down for lesson learned.

 

[gnuisance]

^^^ good point, also, if the fish had been living alone for a long time and all of a sudden they are thrust into a community then often times bloodshed follows.