New Fish, Sharing A Tank

[TiffanyJayne]

I've just got back from the shop and i came home with

1 x jack dempsey
1x covict x jade eye
2x blue acara
2 x texas
2 x keyhole
2 x festivums
and 2 tiny plec/sucky things that have a slug like body underneath and look like minature rays on top.

I have separate tanks for them all and there all only around 2' inch, i didn't do a great deal of research because i knew if worst came to worst i have enough different tanks to house them separatly.

So i have 2 questions on them:

1. if they end up being of the same sex are there any i should remove e.g if i get 2 male acaras will they attack each other more than if it were a male and female?

2. can any of them be housed with others? Through a little searching and some word of mouth i hear keyholes and festivums should be ok with each other.

Acaras and texas should be ok together as theyll be growing up together. and the tiny sucky plecy thingys can go into my com. tank.

So any advice on the above from people who have kept them themselves would be great.
Please don't think this is a lazy thread and i can't be bothered to research anything for myself it's simply i prefer to hear from experience as opposed to what a website says.
I have a very nasty guppy that have almost eaten every fish that's been in with it and a barb that has beaten up every large fish including my firemouths and a red terror, yet i have a pair of oscars that like to have there tummy's rubbed. So i know that what the shop or websites say isn't always true.

 

[Wills]

To house all of them together you would need a massive tank. Though some of them are totally incomparable - what size tanks do you have?

I would split it into 2 set ups

Set up 1 needs to be between 120-150 gallons or more and would have

1 x jack dempsey
1 x covict x jade eye
2 x texas

Set up 2 needs to be about 40 gallons or more and would have

2 x blue acaras
2 x keyhole
2 x festivums

Wills

 

[TiffanyJayne]

To house all of them together you would need a massive tank. Though some of them are totally incomparable - what size tanks do you have?

I would split it into 2 set ups

Set up 1 needs to be between 120-150 gallons or more and would have

1 x jack dempsey
1 x covict x jade eye
2 x texas

Set up 2 needs to be about 40 gallons or more and would have

2 x blue acaras
2 x keyhole
2 x festivums

Wills

I currently have 2 x 3 foots, 3 x 2 foots and 2 x 4 foots empty so i should think that's enough incase they don't get on and i never intended them all to go into 1 single tank it'd just be nice if i could put them into small groups which would look better and hopefully cut down on any injuries if any are a little more aggressive as 2 fish in a tank normally results in one being harrased to the point of over stressing.

Thankyou for your help.

 

[Wills]

Cool okay are all those tanks empty at the moment?

What are the capsities of the tanks particularly the 4 foots?

I would probably do it like this then

Tank 1
3 foot tank

2 x Keyhole
2 x Festivum

Tank 2
3 foot tank

2 x Blue Acaras

Tank 3
4 foot - hopefully around 55-65 gallons

1 x Convict x Sajica
1 x Jack Dempsey

Tank 4
4 foot - hopefully around 75 gallons or bigger

2 x Texas Cichlids - hopefully 1 male 1 female so you get a pair with a view to possibly putting the female in tank 3 if the male gets too fiesty.

In all of these tanks tank mates will be possible particularly tank 1 and tank 2 lots of options there tank 3 needs to be more considered tank mates and tank 4 will just be things like armoured catfish - ie plecs and hoplo cats etc along with very fast schoolers like giant danios.

Wills

 

[TiffanyJayne]

Yes there all empty.

400 litres in 1 of the 4 foots, Actually thinking about it i'd swap my fish in my 5 foot and place the larger group in there which has got to be over 500 litres. and the deepest 4 foot which is probably about 450 litres.

 

[Wills]

Ah right those 4 foots are perfect for the fish I mentioned I mean its upto you how you grow them on but you would get some amazing central/south american cichlid mixes in there and the fish you have at present are really good starting points for what you could have with them

Wills

 

[TiffanyJayne]

Ah right those 4 foots are perfect for the fish I mentioned I mean its upto you how you grow them on but you would get some amazing central/south american cichlid mixes in there and the fish you have at present are really good starting points for what you could have with them

Wills

Any idea's for other fish please let me know, I like the collection i have and i'm sure if i put my main american and malawi tanks next to each other i'll get some interesting comments but i'd prefer to get the main ones now as it'll be harder to introduce them later on.