Too much for 120 South America?

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The common name for Pimelouds Maculatus is spotted pim
How well do the plants in your tank, and wont
1 x Oscar
2 x guianacara gaeyi
4 x Silver Dollars
2 (3) x Pimelouds Maculatus
Be too much for a 120 gallon dual overflew, with a trigger 36 sump?
 

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If you want plants, oscars are usually problematic, they are omnivorous and will chew most plants into smithereens.
Something like papyrus would work because its like eating cardboard, but at least 1/3rd of the plant needs to be above the water level, most normal aquarium plants would be considered salad.

 

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In my tank I have some Java fern, and a giant mother Amazonian sword. So far she (My Oscar) has not eaten any leaves that I have seen. But she is good at just plain ripping the leaves off of the plant....
 

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Wow, cool how many gallons is that, and whats it stocked with?
Its a 6ft, 150 gal, stocked with Madagascans, (Paratilapia polleni 1 male 3 females, And a shoal of Paretroplus maculatus).


for a while I grew out some Cinelichthys bocourti in the tank, but they ate the papyrus, so I moved them to a 400 gal kiddy pool. (they are the small yellowish ones.
 

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How well do the plants in your tank, and wont
1 x Oscar
2 x guianacara gaeyi
4 x Silver Dollars
2 (3) x Pimelouds Maculatus
Be too much for a 120 gallon dual overflew, with a trigger 36 sump?
Debatable if that is too much, I think you could get away with it if you were willing to do two decent sized water changes a week. If you are concerned or would rather stock on the light side, I'd remove either the SD's, the Pimelodus, or the gaeyi.
 

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Debatable if that is too much, I think you could get away with it if you were willing to do two decent sized water changes a week. If you are concerned or would rather stock on the light side, I'd remove either the SD's, the Pimelodus, or the gaeyi.
If more work means more Diversity, it is something I can pay to do no matter what but think I mite only get 2 Maculatus
 
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