Thoughts on other fish to add to 180g?
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You could always put in a group of guppies before you get the oscar or shovelnose. They’ll breed and fill out the tank and be a food source for the predators once they get big enough.
probably expensive feeders for the sun cats right now tbh
those sun cats will most likely out grow that tank, i feel it is too small for silver dollars and they would probably be a bit frenetic. a chocolate cichlid could look nice. I think a group of top water fish would be nice in there. either a large school of giant danios (chocolate would never catch them) or you could get a group of greater scissor tails (rasbora caudomaculatus)
Seems like you need a dither that won't get eaten , maybe a few xl tiger barbs or giant swordtails?
It depends on how big the sun catfish are currently I’d say.
The sun catfish will most likely grow to 8 inches to 10 inches and if they’re lucky 12 inches. Let’s say they all get to be 12 inches. 12 inch catfish in a 60” x 30” tank? That’s a lot of space.
Agree to disagree with the silver dollars.
Good idea with the giant danios.
The tiger barbs would still get eaten in time if op got the predators and then it would just be wasted money.
The sword tails are a good idea.
I believe it is the giant sailfin molly that can grow to 6 inches? They would be an excellent filler fish in my opinion.
The sun catfish will most likely grow to 8 inches to 10 inches and if they’re lucky 12 inches. Let’s say they all get to be 12 inches. 12 inch catfish in a 60” x 30” tank? That’s a lot of space.
Agree to disagree with the silver dollars.
Good idea with the giant danios.
The tiger barbs would still get eaten in time if op got the predators and then it would just be wasted money.
The sword tails are a good idea.
I believe it is the giant sailfin molly that can grow to 6 inches? They would be an excellent filler fish in my opinion.
I can second this. My bichirs tend to have a bit of a problem getting food before my sun catfish stuff themselves.
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pls do south americans
Most all the fish u mentioned were south american, my recommendation is get rid of the sun cats there moths are pretty bug, dont go with bards as they could nip fins, dont get clown loaches, a decent group would out grow getting up to 16 inchs each, making ur tank tamporary. Plus all those guys are Asian fish. The rest, I would not get blood parrots as they are man made fishs or shovel nose cats as they get big af. The rest are a great option really, For schooling you could go with columbian tetras, Emporia tetras, flame tetras, for large schooling Tiger/striped SDS are beautyful, Black Tail Hemiodus are rare and are very cool to watch them swim around. You could replace your sun cats with pictus cats, or even better hoplo cats, they both get up tp 6inchs, have smaller mouths (hoplo with the smallest, both acyive in the day, and hoplos have a peronality like a bird I would say. The again, do what ever u want
pls do south americans