silver dollars tame the savage beast...

[Magnum Man]

my 30 gallon long is slowly developing... the 1st fish in, was a wild caught yellow acara... it couldn't seem to get along, with any other cichlids, getting moved out of my mixed cichlid tank, into a tank that had an earth eater in it previously... the earth eater succumbed to the stresses caused by the yellow, leaving it in solitary confinement... after getting moved to this more visible 30 gallon, the dollar was added, and promptly chased into a corner for a few weeks, but it has decided not to live in the corner of the tank, and has. even been in the center of the tank, for the last week... the acara still moves it around the tank, but the two are working it out... I've had real good luck with dollars and angels, and so far this dollar ( an adult common dollar ) seems to be taming the wild acara...

 

[FranciscoB]

That may work temporarily. However a 30 gal is too small for an adult dollar long term, and they live better lives in groups. You know that as you keep other dollars. So ok but not great. What do you mean by common dollar? At least 5 different spp. of silver dollars Metynnis spp.) are widely available in the USA, with different Max sizes. Good luck!

 

[Magnum Man]

as in not spotted, or striped tiger narrow or wide bar

 

[Innesfan]

When you say 'yellow acara' are you referring to Aequidens metae?

 

[FranciscoB]

as in not spotted, or striped tiger narrow or wide bar

So that narrows it down to about 4 different species of Metynnis - argenteus, altidorsalis, hypsauchen, or maculatus, among the often seen species. M. lippincotianus (spotted) remains smaller, followed by tigers, then hypsauchen. The others get bigger. Wide bars are in an entirely different genus, Myloplus), and get substantially larger.

 

[Magnum Man]

yes, Aequidens metae