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Originally Posted by Holladay
Another issue. Can you imagine a tank with an Oscar and Giant Danios? Or zebras? Some Jack Dempseys and Paradise fish? Silver Dollars and Malawis? Neon's and cichlids? Red Devils and with any of the above?
I have had impossible tanks mixtures. It is how you raise them. No fresh food and they grow up together. They are buddies. My Oscar was a puddy cat. Very intelligent. I came into the room, he was wagging is tail at the front of the tank wanting attention. He was living with minnows (danios, zebras)
I introduced him when he was young. The others were all adult. Same with the rest of my tanks.
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It definitely depends on the fish in particular. Like I posted in the video a few pages up, I used to have a Jack Dempsey that was probably 6" in a 55gal with a bunch of other cichlids and a huge angel. That Jack was actually the peacekeeper of the entire tank. He just requireed his own nice big shady rock nest to dominate, and he was happy. He would straight up go out and break up fights between other fish, it was pretty funny.
But every tank is different. You just have to find that balance...