Non Cichlid Tankmates for H. Carpintis
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A super-aggressive species, already well-established in a tank that will very soon be too small for him all by himself. What is the point of trying out tankmates?
This is a textbook example of a case in which you should be looking for more tank for your fish, rather than more fish for your tank.
This is a textbook example of a case in which you should be looking for more tank for your fish, rather than more fish for your tank.
I’ll be honest with you a 5 ft tank for 1 male carpentis seems abit much , like I know if given to him he’ll use all of it but regardless I know several fish keepers who have kept Texas and Flowerhorn in tanks in the 75 gallon range for there whole life very happily
I can't really see the logic in this. Just about every answer you have received is either very cautionary or a hard "no". Your own experience with adding tankmates to this tank with this fish has been negative on multiple attempts. This fish itself is just a baby who will be much larger in the very near future; if he's aggressive at four inches, how do think he'll be at 8 or 10 or 12?
I know lots of keepers who keep large fish in overly-small, cramped tanks happily for their whole lives as well...at keast the keepers seem to be happy. Remember, a fish that might live a dozen or more years in ideal conditions...but which dies at a fraction of that age in a small tank...lived its whole life in there. It just wasn't much of a life.
I wasn’t talking about adding more tankmates the point was received I was just talking about keeping the sole fish in the tank
Its a beautiful fish? Is he interactive besides trying to eat you? Does he pay any attention to you outside the tank?
In nature a "dominant" male carpintus (or any other similar size cichlid) might hold a territory equivalent to 250 to 300 gallons, and in that space, it may only allow a receptive female into at breeding time.
Although it might allow a few dither fish or non--cichlids in, because it will eventually eat them.
Often times any other male, or non-receptive female cichlid that enters that space will be torn to bits unless it retreats beyond the territorial border.
Its not about what the aquarist thinks or believes is adequate, it is ultimately up to the dominant cichlid what lives or dies.
Although it might allow a few dither fish or non--cichlids in, because it will eventually eat them.
Often times any other male, or non-receptive female cichlid that enters that space will be torn to bits unless it retreats beyond the territorial border.
Its not about what the aquarist thinks or believes is adequate, it is ultimately up to the dominant cichlid what lives or dies.
