Midas or Oscar?

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You've got plenty of room. People get very hyper sensitive about over stocking. If you keep up with your water changes, clean out extra food, keep your filtration moving at top speed, you'll be fine. I've seen tanks with a LOT more fish than that in them. Take mine for instance, 90 gal, 2 oscars, 2 Jack Dempseys, 1 Endlii Bicher, 1 Delhizi Bicher, couple clown loaches, 1 big african leaf, 1 flagtail, and 1 spotted raphael cat. Been that way for quite some time and everyone is real healthy and the water is in excellent shape. Just take care of it. And between the two, Oscar every time. You can get rather docile Oscars, but the midas is typically always a douche bag.
 
everlastace said:
You've got plenty of room. People get very hyper sensitive about over stocking. If you keep up with your water changes, clean out extra food, keep your filtration moving at top speed, you'll be fine. I've seen tanks with a LOT more fish than that in them. Take mine for instance, 90 gal, 2 oscars, 2 Jack Dempseys, 1 Endlii Bicher, 1 Delhizi Bicher, couple clown loaches, 1 big african leaf, 1 flagtail, and 1 spotted raphael cat. Been that way for quite some time and everyone is real healthy and the water is in excellent shape. Just take care of it. And between the two, Oscar every time. You can get rather docile Oscars, but the midas is typically always a douche bag.
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I agree to a piont, but the balance you have achieved is hard to get to, sometimes impossible. Remember, one man's success can be another's failure - my two cents. :)

And too be honest, though your fish list seems quite compatible, the dimensions of your tank may be different from his.

I have no problem with overstocking. Compatibility is another issue, as each individual circumstance can and usually is different.
 
Redearsunfish said:
I agree to a piont, but the balance you have achieved is hard to get to, sometimes impossible. Remember, one man's success can be another's failure - my two cents. :)

And too be honest, though your fish list seems quite compatible, the dimensions of your tank may be different from his.

I have no problem with overstocking. Compatibility is another issue, as each individual circumstance can and usually is different.
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Redearsunfish is right, every individual circumstance is different, and every individual fish is different. I guess the best advice, if you MUST add a fish, is be prepared to take it out if it doesn't work. It CAN be done, but whether or not YOU can do it, I don't know.
 
everlastace said:
Redearsunfish is right, every individual circumstance is different, and every individual fish is different. I guess the best advice, if you MUST add a fish, is be prepared to take it out if it doesn't work. It CAN be done, but whether or not YOU can do it, I don't know.
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Best advice in this thread!
 
Well thanks guys for the great, diverse and friendly advice. Yes I'm more concerned about compatibility. I'm just going off other stories, website care sheets and friends experiences. My friend has a red wolf with his JD, channel cat and Oscar in a 75. JD and Oscar are around 9", the channel is 15" and the wolf is about 7". I just want to keep possibilities for cool and diverse fish. I've ruled out red devil and Midas but I'm kind of leaning towards an oscar. I have other tanks(30 and a 50) but I'd prefer to keep them as a group. Wolf fish most likely won't happen. Sevs are most likely. I'm just keeping an open table and helping expand my fish keeping knowledge. What about true parrot cichlids( hoplarchus psittacus) my lfs get them in for around $65 for a 4" specimen. Worth the price of the compatibility works.


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ColeFishing said:
Well thanks guys for the great, diverse and friendly advice. Yes I'm more concerned about compatibility. I'm just going off other stories, website care sheets and friends experiences. My friend has a red wolf with his JD, channel cat and Oscar in a 75. JD and Oscar are around 9", the channel is 15" and the wolf is about 7". I just want to keep possibilities for cool and diverse fish. I've ruled out red devil and Midas but I'm kind of leaning towards an oscar. I have other tanks(30 and a 50) but I'd prefer to keep them as a group. Wolf fish most likely won't happen. Sevs are most likely. I'm just keeping an open table and helping expand my fish keeping knowledge. What about true parrot cichlids( hoplarchus psittacus) my lfs get them in for around $65 for a 4" specimen. Worth the price of the compatibility works.


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In your other thread we are talking about your new poly ornate, you want to upgrade and 125 is the biggest ur able to get, if you are stopping at 125 dont go with the oscar or midas, maybe med sized cichlid theres a ton of awsome npmed size fish you could go with. True parrots get huge.

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Compatibility is always a little tough to guess when dealing with cichlids, especially CA and SA cichlids like dempseys. They are VERY individual fish. I would go with the oscar (though i am a little biased because i can't stand parrots). I have always kept JDs and Oscars together and have never had any problem as long as no one was breeding.
 
00rollins said:
In your other thread we are talking about your new poly ornate, you want to upgrade and 125 is the biggest ur able to get, if you are stopping at 125 dont go with the oscar or midas, maybe med sized cichlid theres a ton of awsome npmed size fish you could go with. True parrots get huge.

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The 125 is just the gar/Lima/ornate tank. I will ad others if something goes wrong. My 75 is what I want for cichlids. I have a JD, red parrot, and sun cat as permanent residents for the 75(for as long as I have them and everything goes as planned). I just wanted to see if anything else was optional. I might see whats at this months CAFE auction. I really want to do a red spotted sev if I can now that I looked into it. If I couldn't do a red spotted would a green and gold sev work?


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