any suggestions

[rodmanpa]

ok well i just purchased a 125 gal. US. it is 72 inches long. I already have a 75 and a 90 gal. 75- oscar, 90 2-jd 1 convict. i am looking for any stocking opinions i think i really want a baby oscar again so i will start with one oscar but would like a few other fish so any ideas of some combinations would be greatly appreciated.

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

so, in the 125 your going to have an oscar? if so, you could put a raphael in there to clean up the food he doesnt get. also some nice types of cichlids are in the geophagus family. look up some of the geophagus species and then see if they can go with your oscar. in my opinion, geophagus's look really pretty. maybe you could also do some dither fish, like bala sharks or tinfoil barbs. im not sure, but if you could, put some type of bichir in there. im not sure if the bichir would get eatin by the oscar though.

 

[AnthonyRobinson666]

oscars are relatively sociable and peaceful compared to other large cichlids(among each other), 4/5 would make a nice sight...
other fish may be a lil harder to keep if your oscar are to reach adulthood
most result in catfish, plecs, dither fish

 

[Jason_S]

geophagus may work but they need very clean water. oscars are very messy fish so to provide the clean water that geophagus need you'd have to have some awesome filtration and do a lot of water changes.

other cichlids that should go just fine with a baby oscar would be severums, uaru and chocolate cichlids. these are all very similar in personality and grow big enough not to have to worry about them being eaten by the oscar.

a bichir would probably work so long as the oscar is very small and the bichir is larger (but not so large that it could eat the oscar). this way it will take a few months before the oscar would be big enough to eat the bichir and by that time hopefully the oscar would be used to the bichir as a tankmate and wouldn't go after it. I wouldn't ever feed the oscar worms though...just in case.

 

[freddyk]

It sounds like you have new world cichlids covered already, why not expand the horizons and check out Africans, or some oddballs or something different?

Sorry, that was off topic, I just think - so many big tanks, so many options.

 

[vantgE]

Yeah if you are not going oscar there are some nice africans like that size of tank Nimbochromis venustus comes to mind