Severum in 3ft tank ?

[Adam GR]

Hi
I set up a new tank which is red sea reefer 250 - 200l + 50l sump (90/50/50 cm) and I wouldlike to keep a 5in severum, 4in electric blue acara, clown loaches (3 - 6 in) and few dwarf rainbows as dithers.
I now Severum needs 4ft tank but I honestly have no soace for it.
This Severum is at the moment in my friend 350l 4ft malawi tank?
Do you think for Sev will be better to stay in a bigger malawi tank or smaller but his own tank??

 

[Adam GR]

Thats the Tank. I have some huge logs in it, nicely breaks line of site but they takeing space.

 

[Backfromthedead]

Not terrible for a temporary setup, but you will want more room for the severum when its full grown. You might consider removing some of the scape or rearranging it to free up some swimming space. You wont need to break up sight lines in that tank. All of the fish you mentioned are pretty peaceful.

 

[BIG-G]

It would need to be looked at as temporary IMO.
Severum can get to ten inches + and the clown loaches can get big as well, it will take a while, they grow slowly but they do get big.
If this is definitely the fish you wish to keep you can do it and re-home if or when size and crowded tank becomes an issue.

 

[duanes]

I agree with the others, that say the smaller tank is temporary.
As the severum, and the clown loach grow, frequency of, and amount of water changes will need to be increased to deal with bioload, this may mean every other day large, or daily medium water changes may be needed to keep them healthy, otherwise problem maladies like HLLE will tend to become commonplace (especially for the severum).

 

[neutrino]

Essentially a 50 gal tank by US measure + sump, correct? I might do it as a temporary rescue measure, depends how many loaches, but I'd want the ability to change things quickly if there's a problem. Even if things go well for a while I'd plan to rehome part of your list at some point. It's not just water volume, but tank space/length. A severum, acara, and some dithers could work as long as the severum and acara got along-- not absolutely guaranteed but it's a reasonable chance they do (also assuming the severum doesn't get huge, which some will). Add multiple clown loaches (don't know how many you have) to the mix and it's too much imo, unless the loaches were mostly on the 3" end of the scale and in there only to grow out for a while.

The other way around, a few clown loaches, no severum, would also not be permanent imo. How long depends how fast yours grow, seems to be different for different people, mine didn't grow that slow, but I wouldn't want several 6-8" or larger loaches in that tank.

A severum with Malawi fish is an odd combination but not always a disaster. It depends on the tank, which Malawi species, individual fish, etc. But if the sev needs rescue I'd do it but be prepared to make some changes, whether sooner or later.

 

[Adam GR]

Essentially a 50 gal tank by US measure + sump, correct? I might do it as a temporary rescue measure, depends how many loaches, but I'd want the ability to change things quickly if there's a problem. Even if things go well for a while I'd plan to rehome part of your list at some point. It's not just water volume, but tank space/length. A severum, acara, and some dithers could work as long as the severum and acara got along-- not absolutely guaranteed but it's a reasonable chance they do (also assuming the severum doesn't get huge, which some will). Add multiple clown loaches (don't know how many you have) to the mix and it's too much imo, unless the loaches were mostly on the 3" end of the scale and in there only to grow out for a while.

The other way around, a few clown loaches, no severum, would also not be permanent imo. How long depends how fast yours grow, seems to be different for different people, mine didn't grow that slow, but I wouldn't want several 6-8" or larger loaches in that tank.

A severum with Malawi fish is an odd combination but not always a disaster. It depends on the tank, which Malawi species, individual fish, etc. But if the sev needs rescue I'd do it but be prepared to make some changes, whether sooner or later.

Yes correct - 200l = 53 us gal.
I have 4 loaches ( 2 -about 3in, 1 - 4in, 1- 6in).
To be honest this severum lives with a Jack Dempsey and about 6 malawi peacock and 3 yellow labs peacefully. Malawis doesnt rally bothers him, Jack from time to time gives him little chase.
I wanted to move this fish because I thought that he might have better life in a bit more chilled tank.

 

[Adam GR]

If I decide to leave severum with malawis in 90gal, do I have space for any other south american cichlid? Will Convict be ok with dwarf rainbows and loaches and acara? I know convicts are pretty aggresive.

 

[Adam GR]

My Loaches seem to grow slow, I have them almost 3yr ( at least those 2 big ones, small ones mayby 1.5yr), I will think about findingbew home or them, its just difficult in a place where I live. I live on Jersey (small island between England and France) there is only 2 shops here and they dont accept returns.

 

[Gourami Swami]

I wouldn't do convicts, they are super aggressive especially when breeding and would likely kill your other tankmates. How about just go with pair of the blue acaras? The red sea tank is not really a big enough tank to do multiple species of SA cichlid with the other fish, unless maybe if you did dwarf cichlids like apistogramma. I also agree it would be too small for a severum after it was an adult.