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75 gallon severum tank stocking

The parrot cichlid is a nice idea. I might look further into that. The tiger barbs are out. I have heard too much about their aggression with nipping fins and they don't even care what the size of the fish is that they are attacking. Plus if I don't get them full grown when I get the severums, they might get eaten. The red-tail is a pretty fish, but I don't need more bottom feeders. I will have 5-6 yoyo loaches and 2 rubber lip plecos. I have all the scavenger/algae control I really need and they are all bottom dwellers. I would rather have the bichir instead of 2 red-tails.

One of the things I might do is try and find 4-5 full grown all male or all female rams so I don't have to worry about breeding. But the parrots would live longer and 2-3 of them would pair nicely with the breeding severums. So many things to consider! LOL
 
I have a 72 gallon bow front. I have:
2- 3" Severums ( Gold,Green)
3-1 1/2" Clown Loaches
2- 2" Algae Eating Sharks
1- 3" Red tail shark

All my fish get along fine and it works great. I'm sure once they get bigger I will have to upgrade but Clown Loaches and Severums are extremely slow growers. The Severums are very active and very personable overall awesome fish I suggest the Severum pair. But that's just my personal preference.


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And also I wouldn't recommend putting parrot cichlids and Severums together. I recently tried this an the parrot fish are just bullies! They almost beat my gold severum to death the other day so I sold sold them both.


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Yeah. I keep encountering the problem of the fish I really like are cichlids and are either too aggressive or require they be in groups of 5 or more. So I either can't support the numbers in my tank or they will kill the fish I REALLY want. LOL The severums and the yoyo loaches are definitely the ones I want and I know they get along well together. Right now I'm thinking about getting 1 firemouth and 1 convict cichlids. But convicts are notoriously aggressive even when they aren't breeding and firemouths are hit or miss like the Severums. Sometimes they are mean and sometimes they are pushovers. LOL

I am just going to go get my severums and my loaches and go from there. I can add to the tank later on based on what my LFS is selling.
 
You should be fine with a single convict I had one in my tank for about 6 months and everything was great there was no aggression from the convict at all


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