New around here!

Oh yeah, I forgot my 2 snails and my bala shark! 8)

Hi Gerald, and welcome to FishForum.com

Katherine

Hello and Welcome to FishForum.com Gerald. I hope our community here will help to make your experiences in the hobby most enjoyable. Thanks for joining up.

See you around the forum,
Steve

That's some list there, my kind of fish. Welcome aboard Gerald. New tank tank needed soon thou fella. Just being nosey, how do they all get on ??

:wave: Hello

Thanks for the warm welcome everybody :!:

When I went to my local fish store they were having some really good deals! They wanted to sell me two Redtail Catfish, but I didn't think it would be a good idea to have two of those since he said they can get a foot long each. I ended up getting one redtail catfish and one clown knife fish!

wow hi your going to need some serious tank space for those guys!!
cant wait to see some pictures
what plecs do you have???

Well do some research before you buy any more, lfs/lps dont always tell you the right things. But other than that welcome!

musho3210 said:

Well do some research before you buy any more, lfs/lps dont always tell you the right things. But other than that welcome!

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Okay will take a note of that! What are the common misconceptions they may have already told me?

GeraldFrye said:

musho3210 said:

Well do some research before you buy any more, lfs/lps dont always tell you the right things. But other than that welcome!

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Okay will take a note of that! What are the common misconceptions they may have already told me?

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Well not sure if they told you this but, your red tailed catfish will eat just about anyone in that tank. You will have to upgrade to over 100gallons alone for just the oscars. Your tank is extremely over stocked.
I had a 55gallon with 2 oscars, clownknife and a bichir. Needless to say I did not upgrade soon enough and my oscars killed my 13inch clown knife she grew from 6inches to 13 in a matter of only a few months. I would refrain from purchasing any other fish and save your pennies for a VERY large tank or consider taking some back to your lfs.

Just my opinion though

yup overstock even for a 53 gallon. yeah pretty much the oscars are huge and assumably common plecs? those get huge. my cousins one is as big as driftwood (no seriously)