Hello, I have a 5inch male Cuban in a 150 gallon community tank, all the fish in the tank for now are his size and I fear when he gets abit older the other fish might start getting rough with him, so anyways I have a spare 65 gallon with an aqua clear 110 on it, wondering if that could be a good forever home for him if I wanna keep just him, the tank is something like 3ft x 26 x 18
Single cuban cichlid tanksize?
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for now i have a texas cichlid, a blood parrot and a jaguar cichlid with him, but compared to all my previous male cubans he seems to be very gentle lol gets pushed around by the blood parrot all the time, thats what makes me think he might not be there permanently
It is difficult for me to weigh in on this with an unbiased opinion, because I see blood parrots as mutant aberrations, that don't belong in tanks with natural cichlids.
So if it were me, I'd move the parrot to its own tank with Legos, burping clams, and/or blue iridescent stuff as substrate, maybe some plastic sunken ships.
I know, not a very popular view here, perhaps even rude, but its because I'm a bit of a purist.
On the other hand, just looking at the fish in the tank now, and potential growth and territoriality , I would not keep a managuense and a tetracanthus in the same tank, because they have such closely related needs, and tendencies that I see them as becoming competitors, and one eventually killing the other in a tank of that size, or even worse IMO (if the were opposite sexes)....hybridizing.
I also see a 110 as really only large enough for a single mananguense, or tetracanthus, not as a community as for adults. And I see a 65 as only a grow out tank for juvies of medium to large cichlids, or large enough for smaller species, or as a sump.
thank you for the rsponse, lets say i get rid of the parrot eventually and leave the tank to the jag and maybea another tankmate once there adult, i know the 65 gallon isnt the biggest tank but the cuban will most likely only grow to 8 to 10 inch and even then in time, and i figure in the 65 if i do 1- 2 water changes a week and leave him no tankmates he should be fine
I agree with this, if I was buying another tank, instead of piddling money away on small tanks of only another 10 gallons or so, especially if you want tank mates for a managuense, I'd get something used in the over 200 gallon range for them (Parachromis), and let the tetracanthus have the 110.
I kept a pair of tetracanthus by themselves in a 125, and it worked well.
The difference between a 110 and a 125 is only a couple inches of depth, not that important, as its the footprint that really matters when dealing with territoriality.
