55 gallon fresh water tank

[Johnsbra123]

Hey, I love my tanganyika tank but I want to add some large and cool. I have 1 frontosa(5 inches), 2 calvus( 3"), 2 leleupi(4"), 1 pleco, one candy cane goby(2"), 1 branchardi(3"). I saw some baby peacock basses at fish gallery and I kinda want to buy one and let it grow out but return it when it gets too big. How is this idea ? Or my other idea was 2 discus.

[Ballinxalex]

If u can't take care of the fish for its whole life why buy it just to put it back into its original place ? Yours suppose to give it a better home . And I thought u didn't have time for aquariums ? Adding discus will be like throwing money away if you are gonna keep them with ur other fish

[Johnsbra123]

I can take care of two tanks, just not 3 or 4. The peacock bass is cheap because it's a baby but I plan on reselling to someone here or give it for free to someone here. How long can I keep a peacock bass for before he eats the other fish? And what's wrong with discus and my fish together?

[troy tucker]

As for discus they are slow swimmers and will die in a tank with your other fish.
The Bass go for it. Its your money spend it like you want to...

[Ballinxalex]

I can take care of two tanks, just not 3 or 4. The peacock bass is cheap because it's a baby but I plan on reselling to someone here or give it for free to someone here. How long can I keep a peacock bass for before he eats the other fish? And what's wrong with discus and my fish together?

The bass grows super fast an will eat ur other fish also discus is a hi temp fish and will get stressed out and be stunt read some blogs there's alot of info on the forum

[Johnsbra123]

Really! I will look it up. I just think the bass look really cool but I don't want to harm my fish I have now. Thanks you guys! I will do some more information!

[New_Cichlid11]

The bass grows super fast an will eat ur other fish also discus is a hi temp fish and will get stressed out and be stunt read some blogs there's alot of info on the forum

spoken like a true hobbyist finally lol

[mistahoo]

I can take care of two tanks, just not 3 or 4. The peacock bass is cheap because it's a baby but I plan on reselling to someone here or give it for free to someone here. How long can I keep a peacock bass for before he eats the other fish? And what's wrong with discus and my fish together?

You can keep the peacock bass for about one night until it settles and then it's feeding frenzy on ALL of your fish. That is, unless you got the peacock bass from another member who has already pellet trained it. It takes anywhere from days to months to get them pellet trained and most don't make it through the process. You can probably keep it for 1-2 years if you don't feed them everyday, then they'll get too big and you'd have to get rid of it or upgrade. They also eat a LOT! I spent about $45-60 every two weeks feeding two large PBass (14") every other day. Feeding everyday would run up to about $80. This is feeding pellets and tilapia fillets.

Discus with tangs... You shouldn't even dare think of that. Discus are very slow swimmers, thrive in warmer temperatures, and would stress out from the tangs. They might even get harassed by the tangs and eventually die. You gotta pick one or the other. Discus, Tangs, or PBass. You can't have them together in a tank. There's a reason they're found in different parts of the world. Considering that you claim that you are "going to college", I'd ditch the idea of the discus and pbass and stick with the tangs or some other Africans. Something that doesn't grow too big and require too much attention. Shellies are awesome and most of them are small. There's a ton of other choices that won't put a huge dent in your college funds. Pbass and discus is definitely not the choice if you don't want to spend a lot of money

[cu0ngsayz]

As for discus they are slow swimmers and will die in a tank with your other fish.
The Bass go for it. Its your money spend it like you want to...

Discus swim?!? Seems like they just chill in one spot. Well MAYBE JUST MAYBE move 1" every 30min or so lol

[Johnsbra123]

Thanks for the feed back, I trust mistahoo on this. I'm just looking to add something interesting. How big of a tank do you have to have to keep them? I'm just wondering, I'm not going to start a third tank for any fish, too much work.

[Johnsbra123]

So if they are pellet trained, they won't eat my fish?

[crazy42bmx]

Like he said theres a reasone fish come from different parts of the world. And its best to keep it that way in ur tank as well. Ur looking at mixing fish with very different areas and water qualities. May work for a lil while then.....sure to be a disaster soon. Stick with one or the other. If ur keeping ur tangs them look up other tangs and go with them. If not then look into just a big tank for the pbass and other bulky fish. Provide the best u can for ur pet and know about them. Theres lots of cook fish im sure we all would love to have. Dont mean we just go get it and toss it in a tank !!

[mistahoo]

Re: 55 gallon fresh water tank

Thanks for the feed back, I trust mistahoo on this. I'm just looking to add something interesting. How big of a tank do you have to have to keep them? I'm just wondering, I'm not going to start a third tank for any fish, too much work.

A tank to keep one for its whole life? I'm not too sure on that one. The ones I had were 14" but I got them at 11". They were definitely gonna get way bigger. They're at Fish Gallery's 800gal pond until they get their massive display tank up (2000gal I was told) and then they're going in there. I've seen massive pbass that were pushing at least 26-30" and multiple of them in I think it was a 700 or 800 gal tank? For just one I would think a 180-210gal would be okay for just one? I'm sure that's way out of your budget. Plus there's the cost of food. They seem to have bottomless pits for a stomach.

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[mistahoo]

Re: 55 gallon fresh water tank

So if they are pellet trained, they won't eat my fish?

Nope. They'll eat them. They're piscavores by nature that's something you can't get rid of with the sizes they come in at (3-4" ). That's why you see them at the lfs all faded out because there's too many of them in one tank. They'll eat each other as well. The ones I had ate about 9 of my dithers and about 6-7 other fish. They even tried to eat my flowerhorn which was pushing 7" long and 5" tall. The fish was halfway in its mouth. I feed them pellets and they'd still go after other fish. The only way to stop that is overfeeding, but it's bad for such large fish. You'll need to give them at least a day or two to digest their food. In that time, if you have any fish smaller than them, they will become fish food.

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[Johnsbra123]

Cool beans, and yes I just said that. I will look into selling my fish. I just don't want to sell them at such a low price as the people want on here.