Okay thanks everyone, great feedback! But as far as tank size goes, wouldn't 4-6 fish be a crowd? I'm very stern on giving all my animals a good home, and that includes my fish as far as space, and at that water quality goes.
Question on tank population?
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Just for fun: http://www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php?AqVolUnit=gUS&AqTempUnit=C&AqLengthUnit=inch
It is not 100% accurate by any means or does it even have all the fish available to you, but it gives you a few good ideas to work with.
Just plug in the tank size and filtration and pick your fish. Have fun!
It is not 100% accurate by any means or does it even have all the fish available to you, but it gives you a few good ideas to work with.
Just plug in the tank size and filtration and pick your fish. Have fun!
Just as an example, in my 150G I have ...
1 x severum
2 x uaru
1 x angelfish
1 x moonlight gourami
1 x tanginyikan eel
5 x bleeding heart tetras
and 4 x platies
By no means is this an overstocked tank. In fact I really like to give my fish enough room. As the uaru approach full size I might lose the gourami and a couple of platies to make room, but other than that there's plenty of room.
BTW, choose your pleco carefully. SOme grow into fat 18" monsters that deposit vast amounts of poo daily into your system. Many, if not most, are rarely active during daylight hours also. Perhaps one of the more active larger pleco species are the royal plecos (however, they are also serious poo machines !)
As you have a sev to start with, maybe also look at
chocolate cichlid
uaru
angelfish
rainbowfish
congo tetras
clown loaches
yoyo loaches
festive cichlid
Most of all, do your research. Some fish do much better as singletons in a confined space, such as a tank. Others really need to be in groups.
Have fun !
1 x severum
2 x uaru
1 x angelfish
1 x moonlight gourami
1 x tanginyikan eel
5 x bleeding heart tetras
and 4 x platies
By no means is this an overstocked tank. In fact I really like to give my fish enough room. As the uaru approach full size I might lose the gourami and a couple of platies to make room, but other than that there's plenty of room.
BTW, choose your pleco carefully. SOme grow into fat 18" monsters that deposit vast amounts of poo daily into your system. Many, if not most, are rarely active during daylight hours also. Perhaps one of the more active larger pleco species are the royal plecos (however, they are also serious poo machines !)
As you have a sev to start with, maybe also look at
chocolate cichlid
uaru
angelfish
rainbowfish
congo tetras
clown loaches
yoyo loaches
festive cichlid
Most of all, do your research. Some fish do much better as singletons in a confined space, such as a tank. Others really need to be in groups.
Have fun !
Thank you both of you, I'll be sure to look up both those fish and that website in regards to the tank population. By the way Ham, although I don't know binary I think I get your signature. Are two and 10 very much alike/the same in binary?
4-6 oscars would be a crowd! Seriously, though, it really depends on what you want to keep. While a convict and a Bocourti are both cichlids, adult size is very different.
I think you could add a few more fish as long as you give your Oscar and Severum space. I think the odd numbered fish theory is something that can work for schoolers, but once you go past 7 or 8 fish I don't think it matters. One thing to point out though. Any other fish besides the 2 you have planned will help to take the "focus" off each other, regardless of species. A school could work or another cichlid or two. either way, they'll keep the two from focusing soley on each other.
Good luck!
That really helps to know, thanks. I think I've concluded to add one more fish, MAYBE another smaller cichlid, but probably just one more. No algae eaters for me either.
By the way Ham, what type of angelfish do you have, and would it get along with the oscar and severum generally? I've seen them before and liked them, I just always thought they wouldn't mix with cichlids or their pH levels.
I honestly don't know what type my angel is. He has some of the newish blue genes in him though.
Modern domestic angels have been bred in captivity for so many generations that they are extremely adaptable as to what water they will do well in. Anything up to pH8 is fine. Maybe even higher.
If you are going to keep an oscar though, it'll need to be a good sized angel ot it may end up as oscar lunch.
My thought exactly. I went to my LFS yesterday and saw these beautiful black angel fish, I wish I would have taken a picture of them for the forums. They were pretty large sized, and probably would have grown larger too but I'd need to make sure; I'd hate for them to get bullied! Also a far as plecos go, are there are any specific species you guys now of that grow less larger than the majority sold at most pet stores? I think I might like one, but I'd like to at least see other options, because the big ones would be okay, but I'd also want to know more about feeding and waste production of those big guys
