My 125g tank

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My stocklist is currently:
4" Dempsey
4" red devil
5" Texas
4" pearl
4" Mayan
3" flower horn
5" Texas hybrid of some sort
3" venustus
4" blue acai
3" pink convict
2" yellow calvus..

My question- I'm getting a 90g within the next few weeks and I want a jaguar and a Cuban cichlid. What's the best way to incorporate these fish?


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Your tank is stocked to capacity even a little over stocked. The red devil and Texas will rule that tank and beat on the Africans. A single jag or Cuban could live in a 90. Trust me if you add a jag or Cuban it could get ugly in the 125


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It would still be a risk, jag can take over 125 by themselves if it a female it might work little less aggression(usually) if it a male expect some . All male and all female tanks of this nature tend to work better. If you have a female and male you run the risk of a pair forming. Then your screwed


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You can try another type of parachromis-loiselli or freddie.another option is a vieja type.synspilum, etc.but as your RD gets up to 5-6 inches he/she could start to kill off tankmates

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Chelsie - I don't personally agree with Mike. You're usually going to get the response that your tank isn't big enough, or you're overstocked, no matter what you have. There are many on these forums who keep 2-3 mildy aggressive fish per 125-150 tank. That's a huge waste to me, and I personally think it makes the chance on one of those fish getting hurt much worse.

Not that Mike's BS'ing you, he's 100% correct that a single Jag, Texas, flowerhorn, etc could be an ass and claim the entire thing. But IMO that means that you need to find a different jag, not take your tank down to one fish in a 125g aquarium.

I have a 250 with a 13" syn, 10" inch jack, large Texas, large carpintis, large true parrot, large polleni, large black belt, etc. As long as you have the right alpha - making the biggest fish something that's not too terribly aggressive - keep it to all males, and have places for them to break vision (prefferably without any spots they might want to fight over), you can keep them just like mbuna... spreading out the aggression, and no one gets hurt.

If you want a community of lage aggressive fish though, you'll have to be willing to occasionally take one you really like to the LFS. If you get a bad seed, it has to go. It will kill the other fish.

All that aside, in my honest opinion the Red Devil and Flowerhorn are not communicable. The rest you should be able to work with. The order in which you introduce them will help you establish a good alpha.
 
I completely agree with you scarecrow. My red devil is far from my alpha... It actually gets picked on by my texas hybrid. My tank is aggressive but for the most part, I don't really have an alpha. My true texas and my jack are probably the two that could be the alphas and that's because they were my first buys. I figured if I got a smaller jag, added him in and watch how it goes.. He could be compatible or too aggressive which then I would move him.


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