A lot of it will come down to the individual personalities of the fish. SOme mature sevs simpy will not tolerate other sevs in their space. Whilst others can be really quite relaxed about it all.
SO, if you are dead set on the red-spotted sev, then it will depend a lot on him/her whether you can end up keeping other sevs in the tank long term.
If you had the chance (and the space) I would buy a green and a gold to go with the red. As they grow up together, you will probably get a feel on whether any of them are going to play nice with each other in the long term. If you're really lucky you might get all three co-existing.
In my current 150G, I tried lots of combinations of sevs trying to get a happy sev community. All with no success. I now house a single, very happy, large green sev in there, with a couple of uaru, an angel, a large moonlight gourami, and other smaller bits and pieces.
When I see pics of some people's tanks online with multiple sevs in, I do wonder sometimes how they have managed it or, in fact, how peaceful the tank actually is on a day to day basis.
SO, if you are dead set on the red-spotted sev, then it will depend a lot on him/her whether you can end up keeping other sevs in the tank long term.
If you had the chance (and the space) I would buy a green and a gold to go with the red. As they grow up together, you will probably get a feel on whether any of them are going to play nice with each other in the long term. If you're really lucky you might get all three co-existing.
In my current 150G, I tried lots of combinations of sevs trying to get a happy sev community. All with no success. I now house a single, very happy, large green sev in there, with a couple of uaru, an angel, a large moonlight gourami, and other smaller bits and pieces.
When I see pics of some people's tanks online with multiple sevs in, I do wonder sometimes how they have managed it or, in fact, how peaceful the tank actually is on a day to day basis.
