I just got a 90 Gallon tank that I want to turn into a large cichlid tank. Ideally I'd want to put a Electric Blue Jack Dempsey in with a Oscar, then have some sort of large pleco at the bottom. Would this work or would one fish kill off the other?
I wanted these two cause the electric blue is one of my favorites and the Oscar is one of my GF's favorites. I was only planning two because I dont want to overstock the tank though I think I could go to 3 or 4 of these size cichlids with appropriate decorations.
I'm aware of the temperaments of each of these fish and as this is my first time with this sort of tank I want to get lots of opinions on if this will work or not. If it wont I'll fall back onto just getting 2-4 electric blues or 2-3 regular jack dempseys.
The tank will definitely be able to handle the bioload as I'm setting it up on a custom fluidized bed filter (~5lb's K1 Kaldnes) capable of handling a fully stocked 200+ gallon tank with a maximum flow of about 700 gph though I'll definitely turn that down a bit.
I wanted these two cause the electric blue is one of my favorites and the Oscar is one of my GF's favorites. I was only planning two because I dont want to overstock the tank though I think I could go to 3 or 4 of these size cichlids with appropriate decorations.
I'm aware of the temperaments of each of these fish and as this is my first time with this sort of tank I want to get lots of opinions on if this will work or not. If it wont I'll fall back onto just getting 2-4 electric blues or 2-3 regular jack dempseys.
The tank will definitely be able to handle the bioload as I'm setting it up on a custom fluidized bed filter (~5lb's K1 Kaldnes) capable of handling a fully stocked 200+ gallon tank with a maximum flow of about 700 gph though I'll definitely turn that down a bit.