The problem you will have is that butti grow fast. Like as fast or faster then oscars. Once he gets a good size advantage on the rest, i believe your stock list will dwindle quickly.
Op, if you don't like swapping and changing fish, i see many problems ahead with your proposed stocking that will cause what you want to avoid.
Most of the fish you mention have the tendancy to be aggressive and territorial.
If you like to buy fish and keep them for life I would go back to the drawing board.
If you want a tank full of large cichlids that "might"get a long for life your looking at the wrong fish.
I would try species with a more realistic chance of long term cohabitation.
Species like, heros,satanoperca, geophagus, hypselecara and so on.
Mixing large c/a and Africans with south Americans is always hit and miss and long term normally a recipe for disaster.
Most of the fish you mention have the tendancy to be aggressive and territorial.
If you like to buy fish and keep them for life I would go back to the drawing board.
If you want a tank full of large cichlids that "might"get a long for life your looking at the wrong fish.
I would try species with a more realistic chance of long term cohabitation.
Species like, heros,satanoperca, geophagus, hypselecara and so on.
Mixing large c/a and Africans with south Americans is always hit and miss and long term normally a recipe for disaster.
Thanks for everyone for your replies. So, i'm now looking a new home for my rescue buttikoferi. If it does not work now, i will try again as some time passes. I am trying to make a singlesexed tank, thinking all female tank. I bought a couple juveniles, and have received many juveniles as rescues or gifts. At the moment i have 1 herichthys carpintis (2 inch), 2 c. festae (2 inch), 1 midas (around one and a half inch), the butti (1 inch), 2 p. Motaguense (1 inch), 2 p. Managuense (1 inch), 2 wild oscars, 2 hypselecara temporalis (5 inch-ish. These are passing through), 1 c. Sajica (3 inch-ish. Passing through). I am planning to let these grow, take a look what i got, and then finalize the tanks permanent residents. I have been offered ten silver dollars as dither fish, but at the moment i am thinking about their compatibility and abilities to get away from the group listed above.
I have a friend, who has these fish in her tank, plus a female dovii and a red devil female. She has had them since juveniles (now they are all 10+ inches), and they never really even fought. Well, the butti has tried and the dovii always puts her in her place. I adore her tank and i wanted to replicate it. But, as said, these are individuals and i have to play the game according to that. Now it's a waiting game for me to see what happens. I wanted also to ask, i have been offered a h. Pearsei juvi and a juvenile green terror, but have not taken them. Just call it a funny wibe about them. But, enough with me babeling, thanks a ton for your tips and instructions, i am eager to see, what molds out of this soup.
I have a friend, who has these fish in her tank, plus a female dovii and a red devil female. She has had them since juveniles (now they are all 10+ inches), and they never really even fought. Well, the butti has tried and the dovii always puts her in her place. I adore her tank and i wanted to replicate it. But, as said, these are individuals and i have to play the game according to that. Now it's a waiting game for me to see what happens. I wanted also to ask, i have been offered a h. Pearsei juvi and a juvenile green terror, but have not taken them. Just call it a funny wibe about them. But, enough with me babeling, thanks a ton for your tips and instructions, i am eager to see, what molds out of this soup.
I say good and have fun I've got a Rd/Midevil and two jags in a 39 gallon talk but theirs lots of rocks and plants it's been working I'll also keep all posted
I also bought mine all inch and a half like you but just with those three it's been a handful and alot of dead dithers do to that Reddevil/Midevil just have fun with it but with that many it's gonna b hard your gonna have to watch it alot and see wuts going on..GL go for it
By the way, have you been able to keep any bottom fish with these kind of cichlids? I now only have a croc pleco (10 inch) doing some cleanup. Would it be possible to add some synodontis in there? To cleanup some of the mess that the cichlids make. I could buy a megalodoras uranoscopus, been told that in aquarium they reach 18-20 inches, and that my would be sufficient for this fish. Or will this be a lost cause as well? Thanks again to everyone.
That won't work for long.
The tanks not big enough for 1 of those fish.
But there's lots of rocks and plants
