Does this sound aight for my 55? A pair of small firemouths, 2" indo dat, about 6 sword tails, 10 zebra danios. That sound aight? Basically gonna have some plants in there, the live bearers are to provide supplemental food for the dat with their babies, same with the firemouths. They are better than having a pair of cons in there.
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I'd be worried about the dat potentially getting picked on by either the firemouths or the swordtails.
Some of your zebra danios might eventually get eaten, I don't know if that's a huge loss for you or not, I could care less about danios, lol.
Some of your zebra danios might eventually get eaten, I don't know if that's a huge loss for you or not, I could care less about danios, lol.
Hmm . . . as far as aggression goes, are dats only food aggressive and aggressive towards their own species?
Fish on Fire;1070523; said:
I have 16 two inchers in a 75g with two BN plecos and 5 clown loaches, I've never seen them pay attention to the other fish.
At 2 inches long I don't know how well he'll defend himself against a fish whose body language he doesn't understand that well.
As far as the swordtails, I've seen them pick on other fish as a group, so I don't know how he'd handle that.
I think he'd be ok if he was bigger, I just don't know about one at 2 inches long. They're fairly docile other than with each other that size.
They might behave differently in a tank like mine where there is gravel and lots of driftwood to establish territory. I'll go for it though.
My tank isn't completely bare I have two huge pieces of driftwood that go completely from one side of the tank to the other and halfway from front to back, plus a little tower ornament thing and a ton of fake plants.
I just don't have any substrate.
It can't hurt to try the mixture as long as you watch everyone closely for awhile. I have some weird mixes of fish so I'll never say something definately won't work, but use caution.
I just don't have any substrate.
It can't hurt to try the mixture as long as you watch everyone closely for awhile. I have some weird mixes of fish so I'll never say something definately won't work, but use caution.