Personally I'd go for a jag if you can get a big enough tank, if not go for a motaguense like the other guys have said, there a cool little fish with bags of personality
Jaguar or Flowerhorn?
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Yeah I've been looking for a sort of wet pet since I can't get a tank larger than 150 gallons. I looked up the montaguense and they looked really stunning. I'm still not sure if I'm a fan of the flowerhorn kok, so the montaguense might be a really good alternative if I decide against a flowerhorn.
Seriously good suggestions here. Breidohri are arguably the most colorful cichlid one can own, one of my personal favorites.
Out of all the fish suggested I think I've narrowed my choices down to either a flowerhorn or V. Breidohri. Unless the V. Breidohri could be mixed with a pleco and maybe a few other similarly sized fish I'll probably just go for the flowerhorn and have a single wet pet.
Breidohri could be kept with a pleco for sure. Similarly sized fish would be do-able but difficult to get a mix that works in this sized tank. Could pretty easily be kept with some smaller species like Honduran red points or Salvini.
Something like 1 breidohri, 1 pleco (commons get huge- smaller fancy would be better), 5 Honduran red points would probably work out fine. 150 would be better if you wanted to try this, 125 would be do-able as well just have to keep up on maintenance when the fish are all large.
Something like 1 breidohri, 1 pleco (commons get huge- smaller fancy would be better), 5 Honduran red points would probably work out fine. 150 would be better if you wanted to try this, 125 would be do-able as well just have to keep up on maintenance when the fish are all large.
Ok thanks for all the input guys. The more I think about it I think it would be best if I waited a few years before I set up a cichlid community tank so I can do a larger tank and have more experience keeping large aggressive Cichlids. I think in the meantime though I'll stick with my original intention of getting a flowerhorn as my first big cichlid.
Get both it's not hard.
Flowerhorns of course.
And I've kept them both. Jags are cool too but I breed FHs and Jags can't sell like FHs. People like FHs because it's a package of many goodies
Flowerhorns of course.
And I've kept them both. Jags are cool too but I breed FHs and Jags can't sell like FHs. People like FHs because it's a package of many goodies
Any luck keeping Flowerhorns with other fish? I would love to keep a flowerhorn with some kind of fancy pleco, but I've heard flowerhorns will kill anything else in the tank unless you have a huge tank.
I've kept them with other aggressive fish, Amphilophus and Vieja. I wouldn't recommend it based on my personal experience but I reckon a pleco would be fine.
