Stocking suggestions - 300 gal

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Current occupants are 12" marble cat, 7" leporinus, 4 ea 8" tinfoil barbs, and a dozen or so giant danios. Growing out a distichodus sexfasciatus and a giant gourami (who may not go in the pond).

It's a 300 gal rubbermaid stock tank outdoors, inground about 2' deep. Water temp stays in the low 70's in winter, 80's in summer. Lots of plants in pots. 3 stage external drums filter running about 1800 gph.

Looking for ca/sa cichlids that will be visible and not shy. View will be from above only. Welcome any suggestions.

Have thought about a group of wild oscars, or fenestratus, or synspilus, or bocourti, or pearsi, etc...

Thanks for the advice.
 
sounds like it is already well stocked... leave room for those big guys to grow... i have 7 gold fish in the same size pond..
 
Thanks for the info red and amg.

The distichodus will end up in there eventually, maybe next summer or when he gets about 8", he'll need to be same size as leporinus before he relocates. The giant gourami probably not, maybe in a different tank or pond. Both are still under 4", way too small for the 300 now. Not too worried about running out of room, there are lots of other tanks/ponds that I can relocate them to.

I had thought about a group of calico or imported convict types, but have had the little terrors tear up fins and barbels before when they start to pair off. That incident was in much smaller accomodations (125 gal with some med size dempseys, various plecos, a 10" tiger shovelnose, and a 10" 4 line pimelodid catfish) so maybe it would work in the bigger pond. Still up in the air on that one.

I have always enjoyed my previous oscars, and they are the easy answer. Lots of personality, not too aggressive, and will always be visible at feeding time. But I really would like to try something different for a change. Any other suggestions?

Thanks again.

Edit - The filter system adds another 100 gallons+ to the water capacity and is hugely oversized for this pond. I am planning to add one or two more stock tanks to this setup, all connected and running from this filter.
 
Thanks 323. The Pacus are an interesting idea. I have never kept any personally. The only negative would be them eating ALL of the plants! The plants are all in mesh pots, but that probably wouldn't slow down a hungry pacu.

I have a real jones for central american cichlids right now and am mostly leaning that way. Some of my past faves were c am (the typical jd, texas, midas, salvini, etc) because of their personalities. I think something less intense would be a better fit with this setup. More suggestions???
 
Midas, JD, Oscar, Severums, JaGS, PACUS....
 
um well man it all depends on your preference on fish do u want more aggressive? polleni texas red texas red terror? or less aggressive, oscars pacus severums ?
 
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