55 Gallon With A Single Jack Dempsey

[adude]

im moving into a new apartment soon and i want to get myself a 55 gallon tank. when i do im thinking about putting nothing in it but one small jack dempsey (about 3-4 inches) and about 8 giant danios.

in a well decorated tank with no other competing fish to cause stress, do you think this would lengthen the dempseys life span? i just want to keep a big cichlid for a very long time.

how long can i expect the guy to live? and are there any other similar cichlids that are hardier, and/or that have a longer life expectancy?

 

[Wills]

Sounds like a brilliant plan JDs at a guessed based on life spans of similar fish would be about 7-10 years so would be a long term commitment How many liters is the 55g and is the 55 USG or 55 UKG as if you got the 65g Fluval Roma 240 you could get a Green Terror with the dithers you mentioned

Wills

 

[adude]

Sounds like a brilliant plan JDs at a guessed based on life spans of similar fish would be about 7-10 years so would be a long term commitment How many liters is the 55g and is the 55 USG or 55 UKG as if you got the 65g Fluval Roma 240 you could get a Green Terror with the dithers you mentioned

Wills

thank you wills. the tank would be 55 us gallons. after caring for a smaler community tank for a couple of years now i really want something that would be very low maintenance. I don't want to deal with breeding, aggression problems, sick fish, territory issues, or plants. lol but i would like a large cichlid tank. so i believe this is the best way to go. green terrors are nice but they dont interest me in the way a jack dempsey does. are there any dithers that would be more appropriate for a single dempsey? a group of 12 tiger barbs maybe?

 

[star4]

That sounds like a lovely set up, a JD is a very lovely fish to keep, I really adore my Rainbow as the kids named him. I think you could get away with tiger barbs as dithers, they are fast enough.

 

[holidayinn]

Giant Danios, Filament Barbs would be good choices...JD aren't as aggro as some other cichlids, but when kept in solitary and cichlid can 'own' the tank

 

[adude]

is there any way to sex them when they're young? being that he'll be the only cichlid in the tank i want to make sure i get a male that'll grow large and colorful. what are signs of healthy hardy juvenile male jack dempseys?