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I have bought a 80 gallon tank with dimension 4ft × 1.5ft × 1.5 ft. I have a 1 female jaguar, 1 texas, 1 oscar, 1 green terror. I want to know wether it is safe to keep them in a 8p gallon tank, i also want to add red devil cichlid or arowana or giant red tail gourami.
Plz plz help and give a few suggestions
 
I have bought a 80 gallon tank with dimension 4ft × 1.5ft × 1.5 ft. I have a 1 female jaguar, 1 texas, 1 oscar, 1 green terror. I want to know wether it is safe to keep them in a 8p gallon tank, i also want to add red devil cichlid or arowana or giant red tail gourami.
Plz plz help and give a few suggestions
You’ll need a bigger tank. Would look at ur stock and maybe consider selling or giving a few fish away if u can’t upfrade ur tank.
 
I have bought a 80 gallon tank with dimension 4ft × 1.5ft × 1.5 ft. I have a 1 female jaguar, 1 texas, 1 oscar, 1 green terror. I want to know wether it is safe to keep them in a 8p gallon tank, i also want to add red devil cichlid or arowana or giant red tail gourami.
Plz plz help and give a few suggestions

Using the tank size calculator on the site that tank is only 67 gallons.
Next you are trying to mix South and Central American fish that prefer different water parameters. And also have completely different aggression levels.
Are you going to upgrade tank size anytime soon? That tank is too small to be a forever home for any of the fish you listed. Are you just growing out 1 to 2in fish for a bigger tank?
Jag/Red Devil/Texas are Central
Oscar/Green Terror are Southern
If anything try to keep to same continent at least.
 
In my opinion, an 80 gallon tank is a very small for 1 oscar, or 1 Jag.
It is probably OK for 1 adult Texas, or OK for 1 adult GT .
If you put juvies of the above, in an 80, it will work for a while, as long as you plan for much larger tanks in the future.
Why you ask?
All the fish you mention above are somewhat, to very territorial, and an 80 gallon tank is smaller than any 1 would claim as its territory.
Another reason is water quality, each as an a adult all put out tons of waste, and even with the best filtration available, the water will become urine soup in less than a week. The smaller the tank, the more water changes you are going to need to do.
Lets say you change 50% of the water once per week.
It would be like putting a great dane in a bathroom, 24/7, and cleaning out 50 % of its feces once per week.
 
I have bought a 80 gallon tank with dimension 4ft × 1.5ft × 1.5 ft. I have a 1 female jaguar, 1 texas, 1 oscar, 1 green terror. I want to know wether it is safe to keep them in a 8p gallon tank, i also want to add red devil cichlid or arowana or giant red tail gourami.
Plz plz help and give a few suggestions
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I have bought a 80 gallon tank with dimension 4ft × 1.5ft × 1.5 ft. I have a 1 female jaguar, 1 texas, 1 oscar, 1 green terror. I want to know wether it is safe to keep them in a 8p gallon tank, i also want to add red devil cichlid or arowana or giant red tail gourami.
Plz plz help and give a few suggestions
Assuming you aren't going to have a massive upgrade (correct me if I'm wrong you) you will not be able to keep the arowana or gourami. Separated by continent, You could grow out one of the group of continents as juveniles. Central American (red devil, jaguar, texas) or South American (oscar, green terror). Being that you only are working with an 80 gallon you would have to rehome all but 1 fish when they start to approach adult size.
 
I’d like to make a suggestion, I think you should consider rehoming all your current fish and consider an entirely different stocking list that would be better suited to your 80g tank.

If you like the super stocked look of fish everywhere I would suggest Africans, Mbuna, a fish that works better when overstocked.

If you like variety a community tank would be nice, please note some community fish also include cichlids (usually the centrepiece fish) angels, Rams, acaras, Kribs, jd, Apistogramma, Shellie’s to name a few.

Or a single wet pet, this does not seem too appeal to you judging by your current stocking. So I’ll leave out suggestions from this one unless you’d like options.
 
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