My new Crenicichla (I think strigata and saxatilis)

Gourami Swami

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My small guy lived fine with larger cichlids until I sold him. My pair now live alone except for 4 silver dollars. So I don't have that much insight as far as tankmates for adults. I had a 14" johanna pike for years that also lived fine with similarly large cichlids, in a big tank.
Anything that can fit in the mouth is 100% gone. The small pike in that video ate all of those danios. And my large pair ate a group of 2-3" silver dollars that were just small enough to eat. These newer SD's are more like 4-6" and they don't bother them much.
I would say large SA fish like flagtails, SD's, Severums, that sort of thing, would be good. 180 should be a good size tank for them.
 

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Ya I definitely want a school of dollars or something, I really want a lenticulata pike too, I’m trying to powerfeed these guys to catch them up to the size of the lents I’ve seen available.
 
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