Wayy too many aggressive cichlids in one tank

[Fluidsuit]

So having to tear down a tank meant temporary overstocking in my 180. You can see the male Festae big and small I got from RampageRR . What's funny is the smaller female that's mostly angry through the whole video had her home invaded by the 3 extra festae, a dempsey, a freddy, a tiger oscar, some loaches.

She swims around and tries to let everyone know this is her tank. Sorry for no audio, YouTube didn't like some super faint music that was playing in another room in the background you could hear while I was narrating so I had to re-encode it without an audio track. The 5m:30s mark some some angry girl on girl action. The smaller angrier girl is the one I mentioned above, that it's her tank.

 

[RampageRR]

That's surprisingly peaceful for having multiple pairs in there

I'd be thrilled if my tank was that calm with just occasional gill flaring. Mine go straight for lip locking and chasing with just them in there, hence the dividers. I really need to grab a group of silver dollars and roselines to break up some aggression if I can. Roselines are 4.99 at Petsmart this week but I don't have a running quarantine tank and I sure as hell don't trust dropping them into the festae tank without a quarantine from there.

 

[chazwood918]

I have to agree with Rampage, I see a few pairs but even more impressive is that you have all those cichlids living with fish that are easily bullied (i.e. Bala shark and roseline), and perhaps the most (potentially) aggressive fish in there, if it doesn't have a its own space to itself: the redtail shark.

That said, I'm personally impressed you monitor them closely enough to notice even the mildest conflict in the tank. Good luck with that mix

 

[SePPii]

Are they $4.99 at all Petsmarts? That's a heck of a deal

 

[Fluidsuit]

I have to agree with Rampage, I see a few pairs but even more impressive is that you have all those cichlids living with fish that are easily bullied (i.e. Bala shark and roseline), and perhaps the most (potentially) aggressive fish in there, if it doesn't have a its own space to itself: the redtail shark.

That said, I'm personally impressed you monitor them closely enough to notice even the mildest conflict in the tank. Good luck with that mix

Lols, I've been pretty surprised how much the redtail can hold his own. This was just a few hour holding pen for them all. I'm sure given a few days there'd have been some casualties. On the topic of unsuspecting badassery, I watched a surprisingly long quarrel with lip/waffleface locking between a full grown male G. aymonieri and a female dempsey I have. Although the Dempsey didn't back down and got the better, I think she and I were both shocked that this algae eater would even go there.

 

[Hoplo]

Nice looking tank, what is the filtration on that beast.

IT is always pleasantly surprising how peaceful large cichlid tanks can be when you add enough of them.

 

[Frank Castle]

I want Festae soooo badly.....

 

[888fish]

Nice Festae!

 

[Fluidsuit]

Nice looking tank, what is the filtration on that beast.

IT is always pleasantly surprising how peaceful large cichlid tanks can be when you add enough of them.

My 180 just has two FX6 and an Aquaclear 110. This was by no means a permanent setup. Just wanted to get the chaos on video while I was setting up a new 220g.