Any advice on keeping A. Calvas or L. Compriceps?

[Dr Holmes]

ok what about a calvas in with a bunch of 4 inch american cichlids and a tyre track eel in a 180 ltr tank?



were can i get that dwarf spicies from?

Im not being stubourn its just ive made my LFS order one. they said it would be fine in the 70 ltr for a wile and theyd take it back when it was big!

 

[Dr Holmes]

hay leongreen way or whatever your name is wy r u just reading and not replying i could use some posotive input here!!!!

 

[leongreenway]

I personally think one in a 70Litre would be OK (not ideal) fro a time.
It just depends on how many other fish are in your tank.

I am not sure that I would Mix a Calvus with American Cichlids though

 

[Dr Holmes]

Thanks..........I think


ok what is ideal for it then!

 

[leongreenway]

Mate,

I could advise all sorts of Ideal situations, there alot you could do.

can you just remind me of what youve got at the moment

Sorry cant be arsed to go through the post

 

[Dr Holmes]

Vision 180:
Tyre track eel
severum
geo jurapari
striped dora
syno notatus
blood parrot
clown loach X3
red finned blue loach
apollo shark
red gibicep
guramies X4

30 ltr:
Juvinile convict cichlid
lavinder guerami X2
gold spot ancistrus
hiplosturnum cat

70 ltr (rift valley):
Psudotropheous Zebra Pair
Julidochromis Marleri(?) Pair
Melanochromis Auratus
Synos X2
Neolamprologus Brichardi
Neolamprologus Leleupi

60 ltr:
Axolotl
Polepterus Palmus Polli

25 ltr:
Japanies Fire Bellied Newt

 

[leongreenway]

WOW,

you have got some fish there !!!!!!

I am gobsmacked, let me have a look into this

Blimey!!

 

[leongreenway]

Dude, you'll have to bear with me, I am at work and have just been asked to sort some important stuff. Have patients I will get back to you.

 

[Dr Holmes]

the jewel 180 and the 30ltr tank are my parents.

if u whant to see multiple tank syndrome at its finest u should look up Paul_MTS!


ok il wait im listening to some nirvana and pigging out on chocolate!

 

[keane]

Vision 180:
Tyre track eel
severum
geo jurapari
striped dora
syno notatus
blood parrot
clown loach X3
red finned blue loach
apollo shark
red gibicep
guramies X4

30 ltr:
Juvinile convict cichlid
lavinder guerami X2
gold spot ancistrus
hiplosturnum cat

70 ltr (rift valley):
Psudotropheous Zebra Pair
Julidochromis Marleri(?) Pair
Melanochromis Auratus
Synos X2
Neolamprologus Brichardi
Neolamprologus Leleupi

60 ltr:
Axolotl
Polepterus Palmus Polli

25 ltr:
Japanies Fire Bellied Newt

Dr Holmes, please do not put a Calvus in that 180 tank. It is already MASSIVELY overstocked!!!

The tyre track eel on its own is too much IMO. It will grow to up to 3 foot long and is brackish, not freshwater!!

This is without mentioning these and their adult sizes: -

Severum - 8 inches
Clown loaches (x3) - 12 inches = 36 inches+
Apollo Shark - 8 inches
Jurapari - 14 inches
Blood Parrot - 8 inches++
Gibicep Plec - 18 inches

The gouramis will each max out at around 4 inches and I haven't even taken into account the red finned loach, the Syno or the Dora.

Besides their sizes (and the fact you are keeping a potentially 3 foot brackish monster in a 180 litres freshwater tank) there is also the aggression factor, which I am not gonna go into.

Without meaning to appear rude....have you actually ever done any research on the fish you keep?

steve

 

[Paul_MTS]

Hey dan,

see told you, you would get replies on here. you never did belive me about over stocking..

baldranger, tyre tracks are 100% freshwater.

 

[Dr Holmes]

I hate you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when exactly did u tell me i was over stocken then. huh... well do ya feel lucky.... punk.... well.... do ya.

 

[Paul_MTS]

all the time!!

 

[keane]

baldranger, tyre tracks are 100% freshwater.

got the brackish part from this Paul .

http/sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~sholtzma/fish2.html

actually thought they were fresh water myself 'cos my LFs has a couple of juvies in stock

steve

 

[Paul_MTS]

they are freshwater i think that guy add's tonic salt and reakon it means he has a brackish tank. it also doesn't really look like a tyre track. notice the fish in the back gorund aswell, there american cichlids which are freshwater.

they can be put in brackish tanks up to a certain extent but prefer freshwater.