Stocking my 125 w/CA's - Thoughts?

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If I had to choose from that list, it would be only 2 male fish, either texas & midas, or midas & RTM w/good sight breaks.
I can't picture it working w/any additional aggressive new world cichlids.

There are lots of "other fish" you could use to busy up the tank, if you want.
As you can tell from my signature I have no quams about mixing fish from different regions. lol

Although there is alot to be said about "biotope style" setups, I like too many different types of fish, & don't want to settle on just one region.
In order to have a "biotope style" setup from your original list, I'm thinking midas & rtm are your only options, & I'm not 100% sure if they, could even be found in the same waters.
 
i have three parachromis and an oscar and it works for me. the trick for me has always been to have the most peaceful fish be the biggest fish. when the others try to fight the bigger one jumps in and stops it, but doesnt keep going to where theres an all out war. its worked in a couple setups ive had, however, this is in no way a proven method or anything so be careful
 
Well, I put a call in to my LFS. They are checking on their possibility of even getting all these fish. There is not a lot to chose from in South Dakota, especially in my area. The store thought they could easily get everything in with the exception of the red tigers, as he said he has never seen them on the list. At this point I am crossing the red tigers off of the list anyway, and would rather go the route of a trimac verses flowerhorn too. I saw a couple tank vids on youtube with some big trimacs, a festae, and a couple midas in it that looked really sweet. It was a 180 gallon so I know he had some extra room to play with than I do.

I keep hearing the maturity word thrown around. How long could it take for most of these fish to hit maturity? And how big are most of them at maturity? I am guessing maturity is different then full grown.
 
yeah maturity when when they are sexually mature and take on their adult attitudes, for these fish that is usually around 5-6in which all of these fish are fast growers so would most likely be within 6mnths of getting them, as for full grown that will take a little over a year, but fish are like snakes in that they continue to grow their entire lives so the longer you keep the fish the larger they will get (however they grow extremely slowly once they reach a certain size) and all of those fish get a foot or over when full grown
 
fallin49er;4196541; said:
Texas cichlids (hericthys cyanoguttatus) are native to the U.S and northern Mexico...so imo, I wouldn't classify them as CA....
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mexico is in central america...
 
Batboi3000;4196845;4196845 said:
WOW!!! That is a decent amount of fish. What sized tank did you have them in?

Like I said in the beginning, I am not wanting to house all of these at once, but house a combination of fish out of these 5. I want experience and thoughts on what the best combination might be. I am aware even a 125 gallon isn't that big when keeping fish like this. If I could I would definitely get a bigger aquarium but that is not in the books right now. In the mean time I want to get a few of these bruisers and see how it goes. I have allready had one trial and error run in stocking this tank. This time I want things to be more permanent and thought out.

Maybe I need to even switch out a fish and bring in a different species if another would work better. I like the Trimacs too. I don't know if they are as nasty as the flowerhorns or not but I have seen them toe off with a midas so I know they can at least hold their own.

Here are a couple combinations I have been thinking of.

1. 1 Texas, 2 Midas, 2 Motags.
2. 1 Texas, 1 Flowerhorn or Trimac, 2 Midas
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they are now spread out among a 120,100, and 72 bow, they were all in the 72g Bow at first but not for long!!!!


All these fish and I still have a SRT and Carpintis Pair with approx 600 1/2 to 1in fry and 11in JAg somewhere!!!!! Cant really miss him, he stands out to say the least!!!
 
It's all fun and games til' someone loses an eye - the reward will be short lived. Cohabing large over-aggressive cichlids in 125 gal. of water more often then not doesn't turn out the way you hoped. The poster who said pick a pair of one species and enjoy for life was right on the money. If you want a community look toward smaller or less aggressive SA/CA cichlids - Trimacs,Festae,Flamehorns,& Parachromis species usually don't play nice with other fish - you'll have better luck mixing w/ the midas and texas so long as they don't breed. I'm NOT saying it can't work just the odds are not in your favor. I've mixed grown Parachromis, Festae, Texas, Midas, Hybrid Red Texas in a 150 for my personal photoshots and it was world war 3 for the hour they were togather with no clear winner.
 
RLHam3;4195634; said:
PS- if you do decide to go with a community of bruisers keep a high temperature and feed a little more. this suprisingly will lower the aggression levels
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a higher temp will reduce disolved oxgen in the water and make the fish less active. i think this is a bad idea i do agree with feeding more so there is less compo for food as long as the filters can handel it.
 
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