Stocking Options?
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Hey congrats on getting back into the hobby. I would actually scrap the whole idea until the tank is built. Think things over. Oscars can be aggressive but its nothing compared to CA cichlids. Adding fish at different times can be a problem. Some fish just have different personalities. Anything anyone tells you about stocking is just a guess. ..some members will have more educated guesses than other but these fish are all different.
Ex. I had an aequidens metea in a 150 gal with a vieja heterospilus and honduran red point. Everything was cool added a pearsei that the metea absolutely hated.
Pearsei are fast growers while heterospilus are very very slow growers. Took the het iut to treat for an illness. When i added him back to the tank the pearsei was extremely aggressive towards him.
Thats a big tank i would look into 5he following.
Bocourti or pearsei
Viejas/paraneetroplus (some are nasty as hell while others are tolerant )
Parachromis loisellie or friedrichsthalii
Putting these fish together in a 75 is a bad idea some will grow an inch per month and you may run into issues that can delay the main tank from being completed.
Im sure more experienced members than myself will chime in. I say get the 75 get a nice mid sized wet pet and continue planning for your big tank.
Ex. I had an aequidens metea in a 150 gal with a vieja heterospilus and honduran red point. Everything was cool added a pearsei that the metea absolutely hated.
Pearsei are fast growers while heterospilus are very very slow growers. Took the het iut to treat for an illness. When i added him back to the tank the pearsei was extremely aggressive towards him.
Thats a big tank i would look into 5he following.
Bocourti or pearsei
Viejas/paraneetroplus (some are nasty as hell while others are tolerant )
Parachromis loisellie or friedrichsthalii
Putting these fish together in a 75 is a bad idea some will grow an inch per month and you may run into issues that can delay the main tank from being completed.
Im sure more experienced members than myself will chime in. I say get the 75 get a nice mid sized wet pet and continue planning for your big tank.
Ok so I am sort of havi a change of mind here. Curious what you all think of these other suggestions. While I love the look of the GT they are crazy slow growers and that sort of worries me, plus if things are going to go south most likely the GT will be the issue.
Jurupari
Chocolate
Blue Acara
Thinking about those but don't have any experience with them, debating on skipping on the JD also. I'm almost trying to focus this tank around the Oscar. I do want to have a nice Green Severum, Convict, and the silver dollars. But I'm worried even with an 8 foot tank having a JD, O, and GT really may just be a bomb waiting to go off.
This big tank IS happening, I'm already getting plans setup for it. Will be starting the build in a few months so I see no reason these guys can't grow out for a few months in a 75.
I know my LFS sells blue Acara, are those ok with oscars or will they be too small? Would I want more than one?
Anyone know if pink convicts are more or less aggressive than normal ones?
Sorry for all the questions!
Jurupari
Chocolate
Blue Acara
Thinking about those but don't have any experience with them, debating on skipping on the JD also. I'm almost trying to focus this tank around the Oscar. I do want to have a nice Green Severum, Convict, and the silver dollars. But I'm worried even with an 8 foot tank having a JD, O, and GT really may just be a bomb waiting to go off.
This big tank IS happening, I'm already getting plans setup for it. Will be starting the build in a few months so I see no reason these guys can't grow out for a few months in a 75.
I know my LFS sells blue Acara, are those ok with oscars or will they be too small? Would I want more than one?
Anyone know if pink convicts are more or less aggressive than normal ones?
Sorry for all the questions!
Just realized my iPad for whatever reason capitalized the S in IS when I said the tank is happening. Did not mean for that to look the way it looks with the caps.
From my measurements and tank calculators it looks like she should come in at 299.2 gallons. The footprint is the important part, 8 foot is going to be sweet!
From my measurements and tank calculators it looks like she should come in at 299.2 gallons. The footprint is the important part, 8 foot is going to be sweet!
Not questioning wether this build will happen. Just your opinions on qhat you want may change allot too i went through the same things when i got back into the hobby....started off with what i knew ( got a bumble bee oscar from rapps) time went on and i went a different route.
An 8 ft tank you should be fine with the gt jd and oscar.
The acare should work too but this is all really a crap shoot no one is going to tell you 100 it will work or not.
Some will say that they had the same fish together with no issues and others will say it turned into a blood bath.
An 8 ft tank you should be fine with the gt jd and oscar.
The acare should work too but this is all really a crap shoot no one is going to tell you 100 it will work or not.
Some will say that they had the same fish together with no issues and others will say it turned into a blood bath.
If you like convicts...check out honduran red points, cryptoheros nanolutes, sajica, some say the are less aggressive than regular cons.
Also check yellow acaras....very pretty fish rapps at Www.tangledupincichlids.com has them (aequidens metae)
No worries about the caps...but thanks for explaining
Also check yellow acaras....very pretty fish rapps at Www.tangledupincichlids.com has them (aequidens metae)
No worries about the caps...but thanks for explaining
Honestly tank planning is the most responsible thing to do. Since you do love Oscars and want them to be the center of the tank I feel you should most certainly get your slower growers earlier. If the new tank is gonna take 2 years to finish that's a different store but i'm guessing you'd be trying to get it done sooner. I know you said the GT was up in the air but it's just a good example of why I think you should get some earlier. Starting with a GT and O at the same size, the O is gonna quickly outgrow the GT; however if you were to get the GT 6 months earlier it would most likely do much better when added at the same time as the O to the 300 gallon.
