what do you think of this stock for my BIG tank?

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Well I'll pull the blanket off and only speak from my experience. I had a pair of red devils Lived happily in a heavily stocked 180g tank with many different species of cichlids and some other fish. The RDs were eventually moved to a 450g tank where they spawned, I then had to remove the RDs to keep them from killing everything else in the tank.

Moral of the story is, ya just don't know and have to try different plausible possibilities out. Of coarse none of this will happen until you actually have the tank.
 
smitty03281964 said:
Here we go again with blanket statements about what a fish will do. I have a breeding pair of jags in a 180 gal tank with 6 other jags and I have no problems and my fish spawn all the time. There is no guarantee it will or will not work. But with a tank that size I think you have a great chance with success with those fish.
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lol Dude, you're almost as annoying as that weird guy obsessed with Oscars. Stop going in every post throwing pissy fits about how your amazing setups work and everyone else is wrong, it doesn't matter. People in here are offering advice based on years (and even decades) of experience and statistics of what might and might not work, and explaining why. No one is saying it will NEVER work, or that it hasn't been done before, they're just trying to help the OP by letting him know there IS a risk... ultimately it's his decision if he wants to take the risk or not, but he can't say he wasn't warned.
 
i think that you are very understocked with such a big tank. i think you shouldn't do pairs in that size of a tank, you should try 1 fish of each species. with 1 speicies of each fish, there will be a natural dominant ranking order, the stronger more aggressive fish will have dominance over the rest of the fish. fish in breeding mode are stupid, they try to take on fish that are much bigger and stronger than them most of the time.
 
Ok.....So just for fun, let's talk Dovii pairs.

How aggro are they towards eachother? Am I going to have to keep a divider at the ready? Am I going to have to keep caves in the tank that are too small for the male, but large enough for the female to fit in? I'm talking a bonded pair that I grow out of a group here. I've never kept Dovii, so I don't know.

And with a Dovii pair, in a 500 gal, would they tolerate a big cat as well? Or would they likely kill it? Again, just asking because I don't know. From my experience, most cichlids just get agro to other cichlids and don't mess with cat's. But dovii are big toothy predators.

Thanks for all of the insite guys. Really appreciating the help. This'll be my first big tank, and I want to stock it appropriately.
 
dovii pair form very strong bonds and i think a divider wouldnt be neccessary espescially in a big tank like that and a big cat would probably be okay and help control the amount of fry as well as long as it has a good hiding spot just in case the male goes nuts. i think it would be an awesome tank and you really wouldnt have to worry about aggression till you gotta clean the tank lol
 
As long as the smaller species are the breeders and the larger fish aren't being bread you might be fine. Just have dithers, lots of hiding spots of all different sizes, and you should be ok if you raise them together. I honestly would leave the TSN(Large catfish) out. It will end up eating your smaller cichlids.
 
Yeah, might end up going with a Jur cat.

I think my options at this point are:
Trimac, Managuense, Festae, 3 Lyonsi, GT, JD, Mayan, and a Jur cat. I don't think the Jur would be big enough to eat any of those cichlids (I'll grow them out in my 100 gal before risking the Jur eating them when they are too small)

OR

Dovii or Umbee breeding pair with a TSN or Jur.

Anybody know where to get a nice big tank? Looks like on glass cages it's a glass 96 x 37 ½ x 36 ½ (540 gal) for $2625, or I can get a Tenecore 620 gal 96X48X36 acrylic for $4200. Or maybe I can find something used (I'm not opposed to that). Problem is, there's not a lot of people with these tanks that want to get rid of them. So there aren't many around.
 
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