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I've got a 150 gallon tank and im looking to put in these fish.

3 clown loaches
2 common plecos
1 Jurupari Earth Eater
2 red oscars
1 blue dempsey
2 angelfish
1 Orange Pike Cichlid
1 rainbow shark


This is what i'd like to put in although I don't know if the angelfish would last in there. Would this assortment of fish work in a 150 gallon tank? Is the tank too small for these fish? Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure about the Anglefish either. If they ever had a chance it would be in a large tank like your 150.

I was going to put a pair in my 120 but decided against it. The shape of an Anglefish, with long tenicles and pointy bodies, just won't work with a pair of O's and a JD in the same tank.

Maybe somebody else has more experience than I do.

Good Luck!

should be ok if you lose the pike cichlid and i think the earth eater.

also, two plecos hardly everworks. their hard to sex, hard to breed and have a nasty habit of producing very much waste and fighting amongst themselves to the point of death,

what would be a better algae eater for this type of tank then? I'm not looking for any type of breeding

Gibbiceps pleco would be fine, and a better algae eater than the common pleco. Two might be OK in a big tank like yours, but as Craig says, they do have territory issues with others of their own kind. I question the angels in that tank -- a bit too boistrous for them. The shark won't work once the O's get big enough to think he looks like food. Gourami would also start to suffer once the O's get their growth. Same thing with the firemouth. They just don't get big enough to hang with that crowd. The Jurupari should be fine. I have one in my 210 with 2 O's and 2 Sevs. A little skirmishing with the sevs, but no harm, no foul. He'll at least get big enough to look after himself, unlike the firemouth. Don't know much about the parrots, though I understand they can be rather aggressive, and I think they look weird. The clown loaches eventually get large enough to be OK, but they grow so slowly that they may become Oscar chow before they're able to achieve a safe size. Dempsey should be OK with the O's in that size tank, but be sure he has some refuges available -- less likely to act psycho. I'd maybe suggest 3 tinfoils, rather than one. The other two can replace a couple of the potential Oscar food members above.

any one else think dan just read indys tank list and made the assumption thats what mike wants.

long story short, every1s opinions will differ on this.

i know people who say that severums and oscars dont work, i have a severum that hates anything other then his female and takes on all comers, however dan keeps them both really well together, infact having them breeding well if i remembher.

basically, get the more timid members of your tank set up. the dempsey, the pleco etc and then introduce the other fish (like the oscars later on as territories and size become less of an issue)

AVOID the loaches. their boisterous fish and if they take a nip from one of the larger cichlids they have no scales (their actually a naked fish) and wounds become easily infected and i can assure you that the water with the big messy fish is hardly gonna be tip top all the time. combining this with the insnaly low stress levels of the clown loach, their slow growth rate and disease prone habits id avoid them and maybe try out some syno catfish... interesting fish

i do love my loaches lol

Hi

i sure your angel fish wont have any sort of problem as the tank is quite big enough for u r fishes.