Plan for a New 180 Gallon Tank

[ampped]

I'm working on getting a 180 gallon tank (72" x 24" x 25") setup and am trying to decide how to stock it. For reference, I'm planning on using an old 55 gallon tank for a sump, so there will be a little more than 180 total gallons of water. I definitely want to do an Oscar in the tank, so now I'm just debating tankmates. In searching the web, I discovered Fire Eels and would love to include one of them, they look like they would go great with an O. I also have a Common Pleco (about 12" long) in my 75 gallon tank that I intend on moving to the 180.

Here are the fish that I'm looking at as a possibility:
Tiger Oscar
Fire Eel
Jack Dempsey
Banded Leporinus
Blue Acara or Green Terror
Common Pleco

I am thinking one of each of those and I would like to get all of them young, so they can grow together. What are your guys' thoughts on this, could it work?

 

[TheMoneyTank(TMT)]

It will work just keep an eye on the leporinus they can be nasty fin nippers sometimes the tank is perfect for the oscar and other fish a pleco might become destructive and large 2ft but there are nicer plecos out there e.g sunshine plecos, blue phantom plecos, green phantom plecos, cactus plecos etc the plecos will need wood 2 help digest there foods though

I'm working on getting a 180 gallon tank (72" x 24" x 25") setup and am trying to decide how to stock it. For reference, I'm planning on using an old 55 gallon tank for a sump, so there will be a little more than 180 total gallons of water. I definitely want to do an Oscar in the tank, so now I'm just debating tankmates. In searching the web, I discovered Fire Eels and would love to include one of them, they look like they would go great with an O. I also have a Common Pleco (about 12" long) in my 75 gallon tank that I intend on moving to the 180.

Here are the fish that I'm looking at as a possibility:
Tiger Oscar
Fire Eel
Jack Dempsey
Banded Leporinus
Blue Acara or Green Terror
Common Pleco

I am thinking one of each of those and I would like to get all of them young, so they can grow together. What are your guys' thoughts on this, could it work?

 

[ampped]

Thanks for the input. If I could go back, I would have gotten a different Pleco, didn't realize what I was getting into when I got him as a little guy, but live and learn I guess. I plan on replacing him with something a little better suited for my 75. I've also been tossing around a Black Ghost Knife Fish as a possibility for the 180, in place of one of the others.

 

[Galantspeedz]

Pleco may suck on fire eel slime coat

 

[TheMoneyTank(TMT)]

Thanks for the input. If I could go back, I would have gotten a different Pleco, didn't realize what I was getting into when I got him as a little guy, but live and learn I guess. I plan on replacing him with something a little better suited for my 75. I've also been tossing around a Black Ghost Knife Fish as a possibility for the 180, in place of one of the others.

Black.ghost knifes r my cryptonite African knifefish and any other knife fish but mine BGKF don't seem 2 like my water

 

[philipraposo1982]

i would say skip on the GT, they can be a different level of aggression. Mine would kill all your fish aside from the pleco and he doesn't bother catfish.

 

[Adam Fisher]

JD can sometimes be an issue with an oscar but with that size tank you should be ok. Severums work brilliant with oscars from my experience.

 

[TheMoneyTank(TMT)]

i would say skip on the GT, they can be a different level of aggression. Mine would kill all your fish aside from the pleco and he doesn't bother catfish.

Green terrors are pussycats in general lol

 

[philipraposo1982]

Yeah totally, that's why they have the name green terror.

Because they are super laid back and like a pussycat.

 

[TheMoneyTank(TMT)]

Yeah totally, that's why they have the name green terror.

Because they are super laid back and like a pussycat.

compared to other big cichlids they are nothing I've had over 20 in my time 3 inch - 7 inch males they will bully what they can but plenty of cichlids and fish are meaner texas cichlids, red devil, vieja, tilapia, parachromis etc, large pike cichlids, for south American cichlids there aggressive but they aint got nothing on central Americans or africans