Hello I have a 8 inch male santa parrot cichlid in my 75 gallon tank who’s quite aggressive, he used to live with a female blood parrot, it went well for awhile she laid eggs a couple times and then after about 9 months together living in peace as a pair he wouldn’t stop attacking her until I removed her. Anyways i was considering other tankmates that are non cichlid, wondering if a group of maybe 4 clown loaches would work, I would set them up many hiding spots incase the Santa parrot gets aggressive. Any opinions would be great thanks
Tankmates for my large Santa parrot
- Thread starter anzo1993
- Start date
Botia loaches have worked well for me as tank mates for south/central cichlids + their hybrids in the past. They can release large quantities of slime coat as anti predator defense , I assume it's pretty nasty since I had a group of yoyo loaches living with a FH and he never touched them ever. Only long term issue is that clown loaches get big.
Thank you for the advice, I think I’ll get a group of smal clown loaches and upgrade the tank when they reach a proper size, I know the growth rate on clown loaches is very slow, my last few tha I’ve had took about 2 years to get from 1 inch to 3 inches