hey just wondering which of my fish do u think will have to go back to the fish store first and which ones might live together if im lucky . I have a 5'x2'x18" tank with 2 silver sharks 3 clown loaches 1 red tailed shark 1 red devil 1 flowerhorn 1 firemouth 1 bifas 1 green terror 1 pleco all under 5" . Any sugestions to keep the aggresion down would be nice .
who will be the first to go ?
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It will be between the RD&FH.Keep plenty of hiding places and move them around a bit when You do water changes
the firemouth will be the first to die, the flowerhorn will kill him before you even know hes getting beat up on. The green terror will be the next to get beat up but you'll probably catch that one. Thats a terrible mixture for that tank, try researching the fish before you buy them next time. Clown loaches needs groups of 5 or more or they'll never be themselves.
Save yourself a lot of trouble and nix the flowerhorn. I say this especially because the tank only being 5'. If it had a longer footprint, it might be a different story.
The Green Terror seems to be the boss so far , i have had the tank for about six months and got all the fish when they were juvies and dont seem to have too many aggresion problems yet . I know that when they are all adults i will need to seperate them but i thought while they growing up it should be fine
Yea the green terror may be strating out strong but the red devil oor the flowerhorn WILL finish stronger. My 6' 125 held 1 fire mouth 4" 1 Flowerhorn 10" 1 synisplium 5" 2 jack dempseys 6" and all went great until I added another female flowerhorn @ 6" she wrecked every ones day. I don't know how the big FH did so well but I think it's because she was so much larger then everyong else and they stayed in their 3" of tank and she liked her's. But in saying that good luck it would be a sight to see all thoughs bruisers in 6 months living in haarmony.
I'd rid myself of the flowerhorn before it becomes a single specimen tank, unless it is the RD instead as dominant
do you think the rd and fh could live together as adults as they are my favs if not what adults could i have in a tank that size
Twiggy222;2208475; said:
It's not the greatest idea. Mainly because you only have two fish....two territorial, ass kicking fish. If one decides it doesn't like the other, there is primary focus on one fish. There are no other fish in the tank to distract that focus. You will most likely then have 1 or 0 fish. You'd probably have better luck getting rid of the rest and adding one or two more aggressive fish that could keep up with those two and even out some of the hostility.