May take the plunge...

[lordofthejewsjr]

I thought so too lol

great minds think alike

 

[Austin]

imn glad to hear that people are smart enough to ask questions and do research on the fish before blindly making purchases!!
whatever your decision make sure its educated. good luck

always!!

 

[channarox]

wether it's 7x2x2 or 6x2x2.5, it'll work for a quite a while unless you get tems.

try whatever tankmates you want as long as they're not killers and will be large enough. At least that's my moto w/ everything.

even tems will be fine in something like that for 2 years or more.

 

[Austin]

so I'd have 2 yrs at least? what's max size?

 

[channarox]

depending on species.
but the most common ones would be orinos/monos/ocells gettign to about 2 feet.
and temensis getting to 3 feet and growing much faster.

 

[TimTheBadass]

it's a 6 footer. would kinda like a big cat of some sort to do some cleanup and i don't really have any other than my lima. suggestions?

I keep a leiarius longibarbus with my cichla. They also grow to 2ft and grow at about the same speed as the cichla too. Not had any problems with them together at all and the cat loves to clean up.