South / Central American Oddball Request

[MP_cichlid]

when my festae male has fry, i would be worried for most of the fish in the tank no matter the size lol, except the fast moving/ schooling fish like the silver dollars.

 

[The Mother Confessor]

Don't worry about pairs, they will be given their own tanks as necessary as I said in my original post. I'm intending to raise some fry from the Festae, they are one of my favourite fish. At the moment, my male is less than 2/3rds of the size of the female and they haven't paired off. They show no signs of interest in each other at present, in fact, she bullies him and won't let him near her! He is within reason the only bullied fish in the tank. I can't wait till they pair off. Their colours really pop when they breed.

Anyway, I'm going off subject. Would an eel otherwise be suitable taking the Festae pair out of the equation.

Any other rare and unusual oddballs you can recommend? I don't really want to add anymore cichlids, I want some other types of fish to break it up a bit.

 

[jeaninel]

How about a flagtail prochilodus?

 

[The Mother Confessor]

Beautiful Festae btw MP_cichlid .

jeaninel Yeah they are very unusual, I will check them out! I've never seen them before in the UK, or at least, I've never noticed them.

 

[Frank Castle]

Hmm, in that case, maybe for now at least rays are off the cards. Mine is now at least 60%+ covered with plants and wood. The wood I have in the 5 foot is what I plan to move to the 8, so I guess I will have to wait and see how much space there is in there. Looking at the wood, I will probably have more like 30% covered, depending on how many plants I keep.

What about Eels? Been looking at a few, the Snowflake Moray seems cool but there are several conflicting opinions about whether it can actually be kept in a freshwater tank. I do use a bit of salt, I dose with Seachem American Cichlid Salt, but I doubt it's anywhere enough to be considered brackish.

tablesalt is very very different from Ocean Salt or Epsom salt. Just because they are all salts doesn't mean they have the same chemical composition. If you tried to do a saltwater tank with tablesalt all of your saltwater fish would die within hours.

On a lighter note, Gymnothorax polyuranadon can be kept in full freshwater while Gymnothorax tile needs to be eventually graduated to brackish or even full marine conditions according to some

Are you new to fishkeeping as well?

 

[MP_cichlid]

my male is less than 2/3rds of the size of the female

Separate them, she is gonna kill him. Let him outgrow her and she will take to him better.