Large Cichlids

[penguin22]

After waiting almost a year I will soon be buying a new tank.(320 ltrs maybee a little larger). I would like to stock it with just two cichlids and maybee a catfish of some kind. All fish will be brought as babies and hopefully they will grow up together making friends from an early age. I would like two of the following four fish.Jack Dempsey, Green Terror, Oscar or Midas. Any help would be great, I know each has its own personality but which two do you think would get on best and if two definitly wont get on please tell me. Thankyou for any help.

 

[shroob]

From the list I think your best chance would be JD and oscar. Like you said it also depends on the fishes individual personality.
The aggressiveness of the midas will probably cause problems, and may not accept any tankmates.

 

[kribensis12]

Why just 2? You could put 4 oscars in there with room to spare!

 

[FeroX]

Why just 2? You could put 4 oscars in there with room to spare!

320 litres? Google says that's ~84 gallons so.....no, you couldn't.

I'd go with an Oscar and a JD, I've had them together without ANY problems and many other people have too.

 

[kribensis12]

Sorry, i thought 320 liters was 140 gallon's! Must have been thinking of something esle!!!!!!!!! My fault!

 

[penguin22]

Thanks for replys Oscar and Jack Dempsy are the favourites now, would the blue JD be a better companion for the Oscar Ive heard these arent quite as aggresive. Also with enough hiding places and caves do you think that my adult bristlenose would stand a chance in there? Oh I forgot to add RTBS in with the origional list of 5. (still only having the 2 fish).

 

[Tobigara]

Thanks for replys Oscar and Jack Dempsy are the favourites now, would the blue JD be a better companion for the Oscar Ive heard these arent quite as aggresive. Also with enough hiding places and caves do you think that my adult bristlenose would stand a chance in there? Oh I forgot to add RTBS in with the origional list of 5. (still only having the 2 fish).

I agree with everyone else, a JD and Oscar would be best. blue jd's are less agressive but they grow a lot slower while oscar's grow fast. you may have to get like a 1" oscar and a 3" blue jd just to give the jd a chance of not getting eaten later. a 1" oscar will get to 8" before a 3" blue jd will get to 4". this is just my experience with blue jd's

Best of luck with whatever you choose.

 

[Ryan_R]

Severums are fun too!

-Ryan

 

[Unseen]

i have ahd trouble with jd's killing oscars at a juve age. so becareful

 

[penguin22]

Thankyou for replys, any more information on these combinations is a massive help. It seems a risk with any one of the combinations but at the moment I siding towards buying a blue JD at about 2-3 inches and the smallest red tiger Oscar I can find. Obviously when I have the tank and Im ready for the fish availability of precise sizes will be another factor but this is the plan for now, thanks everyone who has helped so far. Anyone know about adding the bristlenose I have asked in the pleck section and got no reply there. Hope he can go in there because I plan to merge my 2 smaller tanks and he hates the corys.

 

[juanveldez]

I would forgo the buying a blue JD, for blue JDs to thrive, they need to have pristine water conditions, they have a weak immune system as it is and any little bit of stress has been known to cause them to become sick.

 

[Tobigara]

I would forgo the buying a blue JD, for blue JDs to thrive, they need to have pristine water conditions, they have a weak immune system as it is and any little bit of stress has been known to cause them to become sick.

not in my experience. maybe i got lucky but mine seems to be tough as a coffin nail.