Please don't take this as being cruel or anything. I just feel that in my 20+ years of fishkeeping that a 200+ gallon tank is just plain nuts for housing one fish!? I've had Jags, Devils, Salvinis, Convicts, even a Flowerhorn. I too have had multiple tanks going at once and still do, I just feel a 90 g. is good enough for a 9" Dovii for now, maybe a 120 when full 20" tank raised grown. If he gets bigger than that?? I'll deal with it how I see fit.
Tankmates Dovii?
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I think your fine with a 90 for a single juvie Dovii. As far as tank mates forget it . There are people on this forum that seem to feel the tank is never big enough . I've got my 10" Dovii in a 60 g tank. .. He's fine . As he gets bigger will I upgrade ? Who knows what the future holds ?
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Thanx Mr Pleco, Thought I was the only one who felt this way. I wonder sometimes especially on this site, who has the size tanks they say they have? Ya know?
Where are the moderators when posts like this appear? A Dovii is one of, maybe THE most spectacular cichlid you can keep, and having a 10in male in a 60g tank borders on the criminal.
True, but really!? Criminal!? C'mon man!? Where are you coming from suprd71!? No one is being cruel here!? just saying does a single Dovii really need a 300+ g. tank on its own!? No. It could have that, yes! But really? No. not necessary. All i'm saying. No moderators needed.
I have one Male 9" Dovii in a 90 g. tank on his own. I wanted to know if any amoured catfish could be kept with him, or anything else? I realize the fact that he's at the top of the food chain and all that, but I was pretty much asking if anything was hardy enough to be kept with him? That's it! No moderators needed, unless they want to contribute?
Criminal as in get charged, pay a fine, no obviously not. But indeed moderators are needed. Keeping a fish like a Dovii in a pitifully small tank is a promotion of uneducated and uncaring fishkeeping. Too many fishkeepers look at a certain size fish in a certain size tank and declare that he looks fine in there. You just arent getting the proper method to keep large cichlids. And presuming that this site is about the how-to's of this hobby, then yes indeed a mod should step in, and explain that Mr Pleco, and yourself are doing it totally wrong. If not a mod, then at least some input from Dovii owners that actually know what they are doing.
It's sad so many threads that start with a simple question turn into a discussion of "you're doing it wrong". If he wants to keep a Dovii in a 90 than so be it. If you don't like it, too bad. Unfortunately I can't offer an useful advice on the topic but hopefully someone will.
no dovi here ,but I kinda know a little about C.A.cichlids.......dovi in a 60.....bad idea if it's 10"...it's gonna hurt itself or just stress on the cramped quarters...that 90 ....time to think about an upgrade,,,,,, , guys , you gotta remember , these are fish that get 25" or bigger, that 9" fish is gonna be 15" by the time you can figure out where to put the new tank
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