South American Tank of Heaven

[dan15daman]

Hello all,
This tank is a 65 gallon tall (3'x1.5'x2') display with a wet/ dry filter and sump pumping out 700 gph. Houses a huge Jack Dempsey, Oscar, and 2 Large Parrotfish. It's very pretty Tell me what you think

 

[Freshwaterpredators]

Are you new??? LOL

 

[japbart]

I think you need a bigger tank.


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[jabsthetank]

Are you new??? LOL

 

[SickSauce]

Sick Tank......

 

[driftwood]

The fish look good but the foot print of that tank will probably lead to some issues with aggression down the road.

 

[GS1981]

OMG and i thought i was overstocked with 2 sevs and 2 angels in a 75g! lol

 

[dan15daman]

In my mbuna experience I have found that "overstocking" is the only kind of stocking possible with aggressive cichlids. You have two options. The safest is to obviously keep a fish solo. That can be exceptionally boring though. Add, say a jack dempsey to an oscar tank and one will mercilessly follow the other around and attack it until it dies. Add two parrotfish to this tank, however, and nobody can establish dominance and no single fish would get its tail whooped.

 

[GT Lover]

Lovely looking fish. Amazing they all get along. It's quite interesting what works sometimes. I returned a pair of JD's that were ferocious! Saw them at the store today in a much smaller tank with another JD half their size, a 7 inch pleco and about 10 congo tetras and they were so placid. Weird how stocking works sometimes.

Your fish look very healthy and happy.

 

[cichlidfish]

In my mbuna experience I have found that "overstocking" is the only kind of stocking possible with aggressive cichlids. You have two options. The safest is to obviously keep a fish solo. That can be exceptionally boring though. Add, say a jack dempsey to an oscar tank and one will mercilessly follow the other around and attack it until it dies. Add two parrotfish to this tank, however, and nobody can establish dominance and no single fish would get its tail whooped.

African cichlids are way different then CA/SA cichlids. African cichlids will establish dominance but CA/SA cichlids (most sp.) would rather kill the competition. Things can work out for awhile, but not in the long term.
Plus the bio load of larger fish is extremely difficult to keep up.


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