tankmates for dovii

[rick4198]

What are some possible tankmates for a dovii?

 

[---XR---]

feeders and floaters.... (Dead Fish)

You'll have more luck cohabing female dovii with other fish (alive), than males.

 

[rick4198]

what about a plecostumos

 

[---XR---]

what about a plecostumos

pleco's would be the only possible fish cohab i could see working for a good amount of time with Dovii. anything else would be bets off. (execpt possible Large parachromis co-hab. i have seen dovii (small) kept with other large parachromis. This requires a big tank for adult dovii. 8-10'+ long (and even then it probably wouldn't work with a dominate adult Male.

 

[gizmo1417]

Nothing. I had a grammodes with my male and female and they killed it. Also my pleco gets harassed as well.

 

[voss345]

agreed with the above, nothing can stand up to the attack of a full grown dominant male dovii period as far as cichlids go, if you like the dovi , then go for grammodes and youl have much better time with a cohab

 

[Mudfrog]

I have not been able to house anything with my dovii.. they are just way to aggressive to keep with anything.

 

[DarthV]

What size tank? A friend had a 12" male dovii in a 125gal and was using 3-4" barred midas growouts as dithers You can have tankmates with them, but you have to realize they will be disposable

 

[Mudfrog]

I've tried, cons, giant danios, pleco's, etc..

the only thing that survived more then a night with them is my old TSN and thats probably because it was more then double their size. My female still beat the crap out of it though.

 

[davidefc]

Dovii have been kept in communitys:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93781&highlight=DJC776

I remember reading that a good tank mate would be a large black shark.