The Biggest Controversy in Fish Keeping? Mixing African Cichlids with South American Cichlids
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Can you mix African cichlids with south and Central American cichlids? In this video we discuss how it can be done and why it may not be a good idea.
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Edd the oscar fish and friends. I have a 16-17 tiger oscar in a 150 gal. The celebrity edd the oscar
I am a new fish keeper and I would like to know if you can keep a red empress and another African with a jack Dempsey and a convict? I dont want to go out and buy them and put them in the tank with the other 2 if they are not good tank mates. My tank is a 120 and I only want to have the 4 fish in my tank.
Hey Jason, I've been getting a bunch of grief about my Blood Parrot being in my African Cichlid tank. So much that I decided to make a video explaining how he even ended up in there. While researching I came across your vid and it was spot on! You have an awesome mix of some monsters in this tank...
I was so happy to see it I sent you a shout out and linked to your video from mine. Thanks for helping me feel better about my African/American mix 😊
Glad it's working out for you. Obviously, it doesn't always work out and I usually don't purposely set up a tank to mix them, but sometimes it just works out that way. :-)
Would love to try African cichlids with my parrot red fish to free up some tank space.Scared I’ll lose my parrot fish it was a girl in a mile from quarter size to lemon size Loved your input thank you
@@Margie1951 the parrot will not ge gurt. Parrot ar never afraid of other fish
I always found inter-continental tanks cool
Me too
Great explanation on why that tank works. It really helps to know the personality of your fish and the the general aggressiveness levels of a species in general. For example, you would never mix any Parachromis with a gold ocellatus-the Parachromis would get beat upon and die of stress overload.
I kept African and South American cichlids together for a long time without any problems. I think it worked out because I got them all when they were little and they grew up together. The only time I had a problem was when my Jack Dempseys wanted to breed. They got their own tank and everything went back to normal.
I have a black moor that won't eat unless the fair gold fish I named OG are in the same tank together. They are homies
I have a 150 gallon with a dozen Malawi Peacock/Haps that was established for a year, added two Jack Dempseys and so far so good, the Jack Dempseys chase each other maybe once a week but other than that everyone is thriving. Great video sir!
Glad it is working out!
I’ve got 2 12-13” Oscar’s, an 8” oscar, and a mix of about 15 South American and African cichlids 2-4” in the same tank and it works for me. They’ve been thriving for years.
I got Convicts with African cichlids and they are all like a big family.
Hey Jason, Besides the aggression thing what about the PH thing? Dont Africans and Oscars require different PH's? Correct me if Im wrong please.
Never mind, you just answered me LOL But what do you use to keep your PH stable in the 8.0 range...Buffers, crushed coral, aragonite??
I don't need anything because my pH out of the tap is an 8.2.
Prime Time Aquatics Ahh, the luck of the Tap...nice.
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Good vid. You are right on the nose with all your comments.
Jason knew because he is the fish whisper haha. Love your videos guys I watch everyday
Thank you! 😀
I have a mixed tank as well and no problems
Good to hear!
Ive had peas haps oscars jacks RD JD and 20 mbuna they did fine I just dont do blood worms
I know I'm a lil late. I have ram cichlids, kribensis, jewel, bichardi, demasoni, convicts, and dwarf gouramis, and everyone is doing just fine! Decent sized tank, plenty of real plants and dragon stone to break eye contact.
Now that is one interesting combo!
I like your fish variety i myself have, Central, south and African cichlids together with common gold fish and koi fish all in the same tank. They all get along find.
Thank you!
I've had a similar experience with an American cichlid tank I briefly used as a hospital tank for Africans. I had a mix of oscars, rainbow fish, angel fish, peacocks all got on just fine. Added a beaten up 3 inch yellow lab which was by far the smallest fish in the tank...he became the tank boss within 48 hours and had all the big fish in the corners. He only left the rainbows alone as they are so active.
A lab?
I've got a planted tank with mostly South/Central American fish in it as well as 3 supporting tanks for those, but finding so many African Cichlids I want. Would love to do this, but for now, both for the aggression and sake of the plants, I'll have to save up for another tank.
I love that tank
I have redhead tapajos and frontozas in a 50 gallon tank for months now. So far haven’t seen any aggression between them
I have a geophagus and frontosa in a 150 gallon without any issues too.
How to introduce adult fish into an already established Aquarium?
I have a 55g that I want to transfer the fish both American and African cichlids to a 125g established aquarium.
The 125g are also american and African cichlids.
Water parameters are almost exact. Ph6.8 7.0 temp 80, nitrate between 20/40 , nitrite 0, alkalinity ideal, hardness between soft and hard
55g are aprox 15 months old, and very healthy.
The 125 g are 2 to 3yrs old, are very healthy also.
What concerns me is the shock that the transfer will do to the fish.
For example,if the 55g fish will be traumatized to potentially die after placing them into the established aquarium.
The 125g fishes are already comfortable and now introducing adult fish may startle them also. If this makes sense.
110g filtration on the 55g and 600g filtration on the 125g
55g has 11 fish 3-6in with 9in biggest fish
125g has 18 with 4- 5 in with 7in on It's biggest fish.
Any advice
Thanks
I usually do that with the lights off and leave them off for at least the night before I turn them on and see if it’s going to work.
One reason people may not like mixing these fish is because they want to create a realistic habitat - a
little piece of nature. So they do an African tank, Central American tank, etc.
Very tue!
I had to move an albino dragon blood peacock out of my all african tank. It was a beautiful fish and the only place I could put him was in a tank with veil tail angel fish. After a year I can say the angelfish are never chased by the peacock and their fins are always perfect.
I had that same combo once without any issues too. : -)
I know this is old but if I have lake Malawi and south and Central Americans mixed and right now it works and I’m ready for when it doesn’t but I wanna match the Water parameters using cichlid salts will that not work when mixing if I’m trying to match that if lake Malawi
Depends on which SA cichlids you have, but the increase in water hardness may be less ideal for them.
Niceee 👌!!.. What are your thoughts on a cuban cichlid in a community tank??
If it's just a standard non-cichlid community tank my guess is the Cuban would kill some of the fish (depending on what they are).
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I'm planning on getting juvenile cuban (smaller) with the rest of my juvenile cichlids in growout tank 125 ( breidohri, argentea, loisellei, bocourti)
Great video love you channel in your video you said you don't change your water parameters
For your fish , only if you were breeding . I have a new pair of apistogramma cacatuoides. And well i been chasing my ph for my apistogramma cacatuoides thing i had to keep them between 6.5 and 7.2 and my tap water comes out at 8.5 and up so what you're view point
Thank you but loseing my mine.
I have the same issue with my apistos - they live long happy lives in my water, and I have even had them give me fry, but my survival rates are low and I think it has to do with my high pH and water hardness.
Had a jack Dempsey with seven mbuna they never fought had them for five years
I've got large jack Dempseys, Male and female living with African cichlids, mbunas, peacocks, Fontana and young fry cichlids from half a centemeter to 1inch and adults, if ya ranks big enough and you have hiding places you should be fine, video on TH-cam "Jack Dempseys with African cichlids "
How many fish can I keep in a 125 tank because I'm not sure.
Depends on the fish and their temperment.
I would never, ever put a huge Oscar like that in with much smaller fish. Maybe your Oscar isn't aggressive, but ones I have owned would eat the other fish.
I actually had three in there and none of them ate fry. It certainly doesn't always work, but proper feeding certainly cuts down on it. The Tilapia is the same way - doesn't eat my OB fry.
I'm glad I'm not the only one talking to my fish...
phreakerby thespeaker
Of course 😅
I talk to my ghost knife shark
He’s called Sir Graham 🐟🤩👍
Right!?! My husband is always , "really??" And rolls eyes..🤣
I have always kept these fish together. I currently have a 200 gal with more than 100 large cichlids, Madagasgar, South American, Rift lake, Central American, and more. With this level of mix there is no aggression.
Hey! Just stumbled upon your channel a few weeks ago - I started binge watching. : -) Keep up the great work!
Father fish is alive and well! Love your videos as well, Father fish!
@@zsworld6609 Thank you Ryan.
Naming all your fish totally rules. I have a 12" Oscar named Pipewrench that lives with a 1" Neon Tetra named Moncrief who joyfully swims in & out of Pipewrench's mouth w/o being eaten because they are old homies...
How's the tetra now ? 😂
@@hruss4954 crickets?
OMG, the fish cops have been alerted and are on their way to your fish room🤣😂🤣 Hey, If it works, the fish are healthy, why not?
Dang it - hide all the mixed tanks - quick!
That's my man!!! Do the work but also talk about your experience tell others that love what we do and keep the research going
Hilarious.
I had 3 mono's, 2 geophagus jurupari, 1 silver tip shark cat, 1 blue eyed panaque, 1 Candy striped pleco, 1 pike cichlid, 1 flathead Goby (glossogobius Girius), 1 silver dollar (rescued), 1 tire track eel in the same aquarium for year's.
There were other's that came and went, but those mentioned were there from the beginning of that particular aquarium set up.
Kinda like putting me and my wife in the same hot tub.....we get along just fine.😝
OMG, So Glad to see those Oscars with Africans! I was led to believe it couldnt be done as well...This is the kind of mix I always wanted!!
It can work, but you really have to know the fish's personality. I have also found the Oscar needs to be much larger than the Africans.
Prime Time Aquatics Noted! 👍
I have both African, South American (Green Terror) and a Huge Gold fish who was a feeder but survived to an adult life. The Gold fish is the most aggressive. LOL
mean gold fish. that being said, it was going to become food, so I can't blame it
I also have a green terror with African and its calm the now but the 1st month or so it was gloves off.
Thats crazy because I have a "7" pleco thats a killer he eats the most feeders he killed my two oscars they were "3"tho he chases my convicts and african cichlids and fights the red devil time to time
I have a similar situation with one of my tanks ....the goldfish (who was a feeder)chase the other fish around which are African chichlids.
@@elare1342 remove the pleco
I love that tank jason there is so much "controversy" in this hobby but I have gone against the mainstream on several tanks and it has worked for me so far...if you dont try it you will never know lol great video bro 👍👍
I hear you man!
Same! I swear some of these “fish experts” just make up things up sometimes lol
I have a mixed tank with oscars africans flowerhorn. And everything is great
They're all bred on the same Florida fish farm, same water, same feed, regardless of where their ancestors are from....
lol seriously right.
Now I found someone that have done the research like me
Totally agree I have mixed cichlids tanks in the past. No issues.
We all approach the hobby in our own way. I am one who likes to recreate biotypes as closely as possible; sometimes requiring species-specific tanks. I am also one who doesn't care for hybrids. That being said, hobbies are for enjoyment. There are no rules or laws that govern a hobby, unless you are entering a competition that has standards, such as canine shows. The labradoodle and other mutts like my own make great dogs. Tanks are for enjoyment. If it works, while hassle it. I personally would never mix only because my interests are different. I have been guilty of tank shaming. Hobbies should be places that bring us together, not drive us apart.
Well said!
The only reason I can think of why you would mix any fish is firstly water chemistry second the fish nature and third environment fish may survive but would it be a good stress free live hmmm great video and food for thought p.s. great tank sir
Sooooo informative
Thank you so much
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Sending best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺🐠
Appreciate you being here!
I have Africans mixed with south American, it's working so far! I did it by accident
Awesome video! I put a short video of mine on my chanel check it out. Thanks for the great video!
I've had no problems with keeping both in the same tank. I have 3 severums, a black belt, green terror, two larger veil-tail oscars, a small jaguar, two small jack dempsey and a red Texas in a 90 gal mixed with some peacocks. I have several smaller peacocks in a 29gal, and 19 firemouths in another tank. In addition to the cichlids in the 90 there's also a synodondis velifer, pictus, saddled bichir, ropefish, bala shark, 12" red tail and a 14" Arowana. Picking up a 220 gal next week and will still likely mix some Africans in with the Americans. Great video/topic!😁🐟🐟
I just started adding fish to my 700 gallon tank and I have African with an Oscar. I may get 2 or 3 more Oscars. I will let you know how it goes. It’s very nice to see that they can work,some of the time. Thanks 😃
I do and have for years...Buttikoferis...Texas cichlids....blue and yellow african...plus a pacu...300gal....
One of the best reasons I’ve heard for being careful about mixing aggressive fish from different regions and/or families: differences in agonistic behavior, ie body language. It might be harder to understand threatening postures if you didn’t evolve together. Not as much of an issue with fish that are not very aggressive to begin with, but when you’re counting on intimidation to avoid fights, and the other fish isn’t backing down because it just doesn’t understand, you could have injurious fights breaking out. Something to think about.
I have mixed goldfish and tropical fish with great success. We keep our house temp in the 70s, and so are my unheated tanks. Sometimes you have to try new things and see for yourself!
I done that too. I used goldfish as my cleaners since they are always scavenging.
That tank looks amazing! If you want to really drive the internet fish gurus crazy throw a Longear, Pumpkinseed, or Green or other type of Sunfish from North America in there! The North American Native fish community would be very upset, but lots of people online seem to keep sunfish with various south/central american cichlids. Why not Africans too?
Thank you for this video becaus eI have been told by EVERYONE, Don't do it!! I have a couple of Salvinis, Johanni, Cobalt blue, and Peacocks. So far so far everyone gets along well, but we'll see.
I’ve had the claw frog and dwarf bristle nose along with the Australian rainbow fish for the longest in this tank.. 3 rainbow fish(different types);2 giant danios;claw frog;vc 10 hap;Convict;jewel cichlid;Texas cichlid;juvenile perch. Texas cichlid and Australian rainbow fish are the tank bosses. Claw frog is a neutral menace. Super chill Texas cichlid, about going on 3years. Convict was the boss, Tex took that title and Occasionally makes the convict hide in its rock territory. I have three limestone territories in the tank. The fish all get along pretty well. Vc 10 is very chill, jewel is pretty chill and female.
I've done it off and on for almost 20 years. Even with the fish you said you wouldn't keep together. It really is all about the individual fish. Something I found also lowers aggression is slightly lowering the tank temperature and frequently changing the scape.
Can it be done vs. Should it be done. Matter of opinion, I suppose. Thanks for the video!
Thank you!!!! Sometimes you need to match personality n character!
I have jack dempsey, green terror pair, pair firemouth, julie, blood dragon, 5 mbunas, fairies and everything is okay for 1 year till now. But i've tied before and other fish like.. Demasoni and electeic acara. It didnt go well. But the most important is to see their personality🙂
Not saying you shouldn't do this, but I HATE IT. I can't even watch till the end :)
I have an Oscar with 3 mbunas, a placo, a senegal bichir and a red jewel. They get a long just fine
You can keep Africans and South American cichlids together and succeed...it's just not a smart thing to do because they really are totally different fish who require different water parameters to be happy and healthy. pH is one of the big things. Africans prefer a pH of 8.3 while South Americans order a pH closer to 7.0. The trace elements you can get are also different for each. I have a 8 inch Flowerhorn who is in his own 55 gallon tank and I have a bigger 240g African tank...I do keep the water parameters close to what their natural habitat would be. My pH in the African is usually around 8-8.3 and around 7.2 in the Flowerhorn tank... temperatures are also different. African tank is usually 79-82F while the Flowerhorn tank is at 83-85F.
You won't ever have disease or any fish problems if you go with a dirty substrate Mud Cat with sand plenty of live plants and Plenty of Fish feed the tank rotted leaves out of a lake your fish will thrive everything will balance itself naturally no need to cycle a tank either with a dirted substrate
I'm thankful I'm not the only one here who thinks its all based on the temperament of your fish I have a peacock an Oscar and a featherfin in my 125 together my featherfin has been with me for years outliving my other fish and I got a peacock 1 year ago and realized it doesn't show any aggression at all it swims along side the featherfin and sleeps in the same cave as it every day and I decided to add an Oscar and they all just don't mess with eachother at all
Well I have a tank that has community fish 60 gallon. Has threadfin rainbows, longfin danios Corydorias an albino bristlenose pleco a pile of mystery snails and now 1 single shell dweller a male Neolamprologus Hequii. with his shells in one corner. I wasn't sure how that would work out. But it has been fine for a little over a month now. Sometimes he tries to chase the corys around but not overly so the big bristlenose will come in and sit on his shells and he won't try to do a thing about that. (I think hes scared of the pleco LOL) He swims around the whole tank and does just fine. Comes back to his shells when he wants and when the Pleco isn't being HAHAHA try and move me. Its a bit of a sad story how he ended up being the only Hequii from what was once a substantial group but thats for another time.
I have an oscar in a giant planted community aquarium alongside a large school of ember tetras. I also have a group of about 6 celestial pearl danios. As far as I can tell the Oscar never attacks the smaller fish. He ignores them. I tried adding a new oscar and it was hunting my tetras and was tearing up my plants. I had to take that one back to the store.
It's totally down to temperament of the oscar. My oscar has been coexisting in a tank with plants and nano fish for 6 years now.
A very long time ago I had the same thing happen with a convict and a Jack Dempsey - there were very small fish in the tank and they never touched them.
I have a 75 gallon with frontosa and angels, you nailed it
Btw the frontosa are only 4-5 inches
My 125 is literally filled with a bunch of fish that are not "supposed" to be together, And I do not have any problems.
depends on fish i guess i have medium size yellow lab and bumblebee in with couple platys mollies tiger barbs and small redtail other than a little chasing no problems
I have south american and African and it works out, I have a peacock bass, parrot fish, Jack dempsey and a green terror
I have a mixed 55 with some limestone and hornwort and even had some red zebra cichlid breeding! So all is going well so far it’s been like 5 months
I got a big 6ft tank and have a mix or South Americans and African cichlids and alway get people going on about Water parameters
I have a jack Dempsey blue acara 2 peacock cichlids a Perot fish bristlenose and 2 clown loaches everyone’s as happy as couid be totally no issues
African cichlids are better swimmers and faster than South American cichlids most South American cichlids confront a aggressive challenge usually face to face African cichlids may do this but when confronted with a aggressive challenge but usually they will attack from any angle of their opponents not so much face to face
I’m about to put African cichlids with a Texas cichlid and. Pleco wish me luck
It's 10 months after the video was done but it's the right time for me. I'm back to the hobie and I'm discovering lots of fish that I didn't know years ago and I wonder if it's possible to keep them on the same fishtank, the main concern are the water parameters but now I confirm what I was thinking, all the fish from a store were growth in same kind of water...
Thanks for the video 👍👍👍
My Jack Dempsey killed my new Firemouth within 5 hrs.
I personally have no problem mixing fish lmaoo....I have one tank with kois,a couple featherfin synodontis cats and my oscar😂also I have one with dempseys,green terrors,o.b's,mbuna,and even a parrot fish everything is working smooth and sound so I'm happy👏
Yeah, I hate when people mixing African with american cichlid
I would love to have an Oscar with a frontosa but they are two such beautiful fish I would hate to have an incident happen in there!
Ya, you never can guarantee that will work. Both are great fish. :-)
My Oscars killed every new fish in my 125g tank..
i tried 2 peacocks and two yellows, half the size of the oscars.
I made sure i fed them plenty before, but by the next day the malawis were killed.
Even plecos had no chance.
The only fish they left alone were the bichirs and ropefish.
I agree you can mix cichlids when done carefully. However that huge 2 Oscars in 125G is too much and to put other fishes that are same size and the Oscar's mouth is irresponsible and dangerous for other fishes life.
and yet - it's been years and they leave them alone.....
Yes I have a mix mbunas oscar and peacock and they are all doing great
Hi.. Do you still keep mbuna with oscar? Still doing great ??
@@yanickvalaydon9155 yes they are still looking healthy thanks for asking
I have the same mix with a Jack Dempsey on top of them all. still small hope they continue to be peaceful!
@@jakethomas1700 i just found a baby cichlid hiding by the rocks about an inch size. I am very happy about that. That's the second baby so far.😊
Dollysvlog2780 are they still doing great to this date ?! And what size tank if i may ask?
I have some very timid madagascar polleni in with angels. As a whole, no, i would not combine these fish together, but they have done very well.
yeah, i have mixed them at times. ... african cichids make decent mates for red devils/midas if they are the right mix. ... but usually just worked out that way because of having to move fish around because of aggression etc. .. good video. very true stuff.
I have been able to do the same.
I have 14 tanks with various species, small tropicals, cichlids-dwarf to large, common and fancy goldfish. I have tried Johanni’s with CA/SA cichlids without success. Their health deteriorated within weeks. Most probably due to the fact that NYC tap water is soft and acidic. I refuse to play around with water hardness or PH. I just keep together SA, CA and river dwelling African cichlids, such as Kribensis and Red Jewels, which I have a batch of fry from both species. On another subject matter, last week unexpectedly, my former 25 cents feeder goldfish, which I purchased over a year ago to raise spawned. I now have hundreds of week old fry. I hate to feed most of them to my cichlids but there is no way I can raise hundreds of goldfish. I’m hoping nature kicks in and there will be a high mortality rate within the next couple of weeks. So far no losses. So until then, they are being well cared for. Enjoy your channel.
Thanks for watching - that's kinda cool your goldfish bred!
I have about 20 multi shell dwellers. I want to move them into a 125g with geophagus tapajos. The Geo's will be small about 1". My idea is to place snail shells only in 1/3 of the tank for the shell dwellers. Leaving the rest of the 4' shelless. Advice?
I probably wouldn’t. Long term they will fight as the shell dwellers move shells where they want them.
I am tempted to try this. I have 1 large oscar. We recently lost his buddy I think to old age. No obvious signs of disease well taken care of tank. The Oscar seems to be depressed. Seems weird in a fish but oscars are kind of special. I have some frontosa that are shy and seem to be pretty laid back. About 5 of them. They are growing good. A few years old 6-8inches. They are moving from a 75 to a 280 with 55 gallon sump. Unsure if trying to find a larger Oscar buddy is better or to try to mix them. Thoughts?
They're both often laid back for a large cichlid. I might not mix them though just because their personalities are different.
I’m going to be really unpopular: My tiger Oscar grew up around mbuna (really old ones though, 11 yr olds, save one maingano) and the diet issue worked out. Why? Because I hand feed my oscar his own food, when he indicates he is hungry: Live insects, bug bites, that sort. Conversely I have a feeder that cranks out vegetarian pellets and then I also hand feed some veggie wafers, cukes and spinach to the last maingano in the tank and the new duboisi.
I also have an army of thousands of tiny, local hydrobe snails that happily clean up after everyone (if they ever invent cleaning nanobots, they should design them to mimic these snails).
I WISH my Oscar would eat some veg. The live superworms and crickets he gets have a good amount of fiber in their chitinous exoskeletons at least.
Sounds like you made it work!
It is interesting what you said about fish personalities and how they can change overnight. I bought 7 Eliotti's Cichlids with a view to breeding, Even though they were only half grown the dominant male selected his female of choice and chased everybody else around the tank relentlessly. I had to remove the other 5. He and his chosen lady formed a really strong bond and they spawned regularly for several months. As soon as I removed one batch of fry they would spawn again within a couple of days and he was a very attentive father. There were no other fish in the tank and after a few months and without any warning he turned on his partner and tried to kill her, it didn't matter where she tried to hide he was actively hunting her. I had to get her out of the tank immediately or he would have killed her.
Funny how fish can do that!
People in india are keeping fish that are not compatible. Lets say for example a goldfish with an oscar , etc you get the idea. In 10 gallon tank for life saying the fish will grow according to the tank. Which is literally kind of an abuse. WC are done on monthly basis.
Matching tank size to the fish is important. Probably wouldn't try the gold fish with an oscar myself.
my tank has, 3x silver dollars, 2x big pleco, 2x blue moori, 2x yellow labs, 2x firemouths, had them about two years now, all seem to get along, mr prime time aquatics or anyone, what do you think to my set up, they all in a 240 litre tanks, lots filteration, all good after two years
If it has worked that long I doubt you will have any issues in the future. :-)
Looks like u primarily have African cichlids tho. Maybe it’s just me & im not seeing any others?
I have lots of americans too - Geophagus, midas, oscar, apistogramma, rams, acara, angels, guianacara, nanoluteus, rainbow cichlids - just to name a few. :-)
Need a 500gal
I think you are right! : -)
I've got a fontosa in with uaru, choclate true parrot carpintas and acara works well
I have a tank where i have a gold fish with oscars and their fine
It is all about knowing the Fish, that is how to understand what Fish you can have with What Fish.
But always do research First, never rush in without doing so and avoid buying on impulse.
I have a mix of African and American Cichlids and I have no problems or disasters with the Mixed Species.
Great video.
Your channel has grown a lot from the day I started watching it, keep up the good work, and congratulations.
Much love and support.
Have a great week Sir.
Thanks for sharing!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics My pleasure Sir.
What peacocks can I keep in a 200litre tank? Any info would be amazing
I generally don’t keep peacocks in anything less than a 75 gallon. In a 200 liter you could try a breeding group of one male and 3-4 females?
Those two fish make that 125 look small!
My two oscars have been together since they were babies and at the pet store. They always are together and swim in sync. I want to try and put African cichlids in and hope they don’t fight lol I have a fire mouth in the tank too.
My Oscars did that too when I had multiples. So peaceful.
Didn't like so much varied fish in one aquarium. What if these fishes didn't adjusted to each other and simply kill or injure others
I have the ability to move fish around, so it's not an issue for me.
When I first got into tropical fish. I mixed them not knowing any better. They still live together 7 years later
I think a lot of people do that because they're not cichlid-shamed into the biotope mentality yet. When it works they feel like they did something horrible, not remembering - wait I didn't actually have any issues. : -)
This video was so needed. Excellent points. Possible, yes. Ideal, no. Research always. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I didnt do this but I did have 2 Oscar's a jaguar and a jack dempsey in 1 tank and I never once saw any aggression from any of them
It's always nice when you can get a mix like that to work out!