PETEYPLECO Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Looking for suggestions on mid to upper tank level dwellers suitable for the tankmates below, something largish 5" to 6" fully grown, maybe colourfull, calm. I would love discus but I have had comments on not going this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Mayb silver dollar's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keri Anne Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Guppies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Mighty big for a guppie, I think you can get some danio's that get pretty big not too sure about what ones.. And most rainbows get to about 10cm and you can get reds yellows etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keri Anne Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Sorry, misread as cm. Swordtails?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishboi Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 giant danios get to around 6 inch fully grown or if u can get hold of some gardenri killies would look really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keri Anne Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Oh, oh I know!! Madagascarn Rainbow fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These guys are so cool – Deco City pets has them so PM Bruce if you want some info on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim&Dan Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Rainbows are definitely a good idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 What does a rainbow look like, I'll have to google that one? keep the suggestions comming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktttk Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 google "bosemani rainbow". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpidersWeb Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Firemouth Cichlid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Gold Gourami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Allmost tempted to buy a 6" Jaguar Cichlid today, but he will get to big I supose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Also looked at other cichlids - convicts, severum, jack dempsey, texas, jewel, and of corse the jag. These are the fish I like but for one reason or another all but the Severum will seem to either eat my neons, fight every fish in the tank or grow to about the size of my tank ! Again I have neen advised not to go Discus whick is what I originally wanted. Any other largish colourfull mid water fishies you can suggest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 cons- arent that friendly normally and worse when breeding sev- get at least 20cm, 25cm or so normally. JD- eat your fish, get to around 20-25cm texas- pretty nasty and will get around 30cm jewel- theyre africans and just nasty anyway jags- at least 35cm for female, males average 45-50cm and shouldnt be kept with other species, the only fish they might get on with is a breeding partner. i loved my boesmani rainbows, theyre such beautiful fish- specially the males and they get around 8cm or so. firemouths might be ok, will end up eating neons though. they tend to be pretty placid fish as far as cichlids go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 HMMMMM ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiden Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 What about Blue Acaras? Electric Yellows arent to bad in a community :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim&Dan Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 For Rainbow Fish check out this site: http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon ... taenia.htm Loads of profiles of all kinds of Rainbow Fish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Cobalt Blue Gourami's I loved them Great Fish!~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted August 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Acaras - saw some today? Might look into these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktttk Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Firemouths are cool! I just bought a pair - well they were acting like a pair when I bought them, but now the male is harassing the female a bit, might need to add more rocks and plants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Yeah I agree firemouths are cool.. I got bagged on here the last time I suggested them though Just make sure they cant grow big enough to eat anything and I recon you'll be sweet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpidersWeb Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Firemouths are cool! I just bought a pair - well they were acting like a pair when I bought them, but now the male is harassing the female a bit, might need to add more rocks and plants. Lucky I've been trying hard to find females, I have over ten Firemouths at the moment and only one definate girl. My adult pair dont really fight, but the male is a wuss and the female is a bit of a man eater. I've got my seven smaller guys (<4 inches) in my community planted tank. I did have to remove the neons because in the morning the Firemouth wakes up straight away but the neons take a good ten minutes, and were just too tempting, only lost 1 neon out of 15 though, so hardly a badass killer, although cichlids will be cichlids too I guess, ya never know. I've found angels to be more aggressive than Firemouths in general, and my cute little young gold severums (which are half the size) don't take any bull from my adult pair of Firemouths. I think the main reason Firemouths aren't labelled as 'cool' is most people don't see (or know that they do) the flarring they do, or the colouration and fin displays of a dominant male, and in all fairness they're one of those 'grey fish' and many people want to add colour to the aquarium. They're also wimpy as far as cichlids go. On another note I've had a pair of Blue Acaras as mentioned before too, they were great but more of an upper than mid-dweller, or perhaps that was just my pair? Male looked great, but female looked absolutely hideous. They didn't cause any aggression problems at all, until a Jewel attacked the female (to her demise ) and after that the male Acara was rather vicious for about a month but only towards Jewel cichlids, so I quite liked them also as they seemed to have some intelligence to them, and didn't use unnecessary violence as such, but once again, I only ever had one pair, so might want to read up some more, just my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETEYPLECO Posted August 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 YAY ! I got a pair of Sunset Dwarf Gouramis, the male is beautiful red with tuquoise fins and they cruise around the top of my tank, cool ! I guess these will settle my fish buying for a wee while? On the subject of Blue Acaras and severums, I was told they will end up eating my Neons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 the sevs will, they normally max out around 25cm but ive seen ones oscar sized they have pretty big mouths when they want to :lol: unsure about the acara, theyre not massive fish but a neon is quite small and not hard to snap in half if it wanted to... i would move them out if you want to definatly keep them out of a fishies mouth but if you dont mind risking it just leave em in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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