Thoughts on stocking?

[Milingu]

The group of pictus will annoy and stress everyone at night. Pantodon will be outcompeted and stressed by the cichlids.
T. salvini will either directly fight the other cichlids or it will try to breed with one of them and then fight the others.

 

[SmokyCartoon]

The group of pictus will annoy and stress everyone at night. Pantodon will be outcompeted and stressed by the cichlids.
T. salvini will either directly fight the other cichlids or it will try to breed with one of them and then fight the others.

 

[duanes]

Just a few comments about cichlid water parameters.
T. meeki and T selvini are both hard water central American cichlids, referring a pH around 8, but will tolerate lower.
H severum and M festival are South American and Amazonian soft water species preferring a pH below 7, some will sometimes tolerate higher, pH and harder water, temporarily but...often end up with HITH after too much time in hard water.
Jewels and acaras are very adaptable
The Ctenompoma also prefers soft acidic water, and sometimes develop bacterial infections if in stressful parameters out of norm, and if kept with certain boisterous cichlids.
You may want to check out the parameters of your tap water, before cramming species together, especially if your parameters lean too much one way or the other.

 

[SmokyCartoon]

Just a few comments about cichlid water parameters.
T. meeki and T selvini are both hard water central American cichlids, referring a pH around 8, but will tolerate lower.
H severum and M festival are South American and Amazonian soft water species preferring a pH below 7, some will sometimes tolerate higher, pH and harder water, temporarily but...often end up with HITH after too much time in hard water.
Jewels and acaras are very adaptable
The Ctenompoma also prefers soft acidic water, and sometimes develop bacterial infections if in stressful parameters out of norm, and if kept with certain boisterous cichlids.
You may want to check out the parameters of your tap water, before cramming species together, especially if your parameters lean too much one way or the other.

removed the severum, festivum and ctenompoma since Houston water is hard and added a pair of angelfish which from what I remember are from south america meaning they also need soft water? Also would a rainbow shark be pushing it with the amount of bottom dwellers?

 

[breadhead]

I don’t think that the African butterfly will make it with the aggressive cichlids you have

 

[SmokyCartoon]

I don’t think that the African butterfly will make it with the aggressive cichlids you have

Any top dwellers that can coexist?

 

[breadhead]

maybe a rocket gar

 

[TyKornblue]

why do you keep overstocking it? they're going to be very stressed out, and it wont be fun to watch stressed out fish, remove a few from the mix and it will be much better

 

[Something Fishy Here]

Do you already have a 10" pictus? or why are you listing him separate from the other 6 you listed?

 

[TheTerminutter]

removed the severum, festivum and ctenompoma since Houston water is hard and added a pair of angelfish which from what I remember are from south america meaning they also need soft water? Also would a rainbow shark be pushing it with the amount of bottom dwellers?

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I just hope all four of those firemouths will turn out to be the same gender