2006-10-26 06:51:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
After your Jacks are established (them being in the tank a while) it can be a gamble to add anything with them. Some people have good luck (like the person who put the Africans and convicts in with them....which I would not recommend doing...and I would suspect that those successful ones either had the Africans first, or put them all in at the same time)
You want to try to stay with fish of similar temperament and adult size. Terrors, Oscars, Jacks, and possibly pacu or the red devils are generally the ones I recommended....however! It all depends on the Jack you already have. If he's a big guy, used to a tank all by himself, I doubt anything in there would be a good idea. If he's still pretty little, and your tank is big, you might give one or two other South American Cichlids that get at least 15" adult sized (and are the same size, or larger currently).
If your tank is smaller than a 55 gallon, don't add anything else to that tank. If it's smaller than a 29, you need a bigger tank. Cichlids take up a lot of space, particularly those that get big (sounds self explanatory, but the larger ones produce more waste and make the water dirty faster, so they not only need the space for their physical body, they need the water space to support their life.)
2006-10-29 20:11:08 · answer #1 · answered by yama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
enable me allow you to comprehend a touch tale. many years in the past I were given tons on seven juvenile gold Jack Dempseys and placed them in large tank. some days later, i stumbled on one useless contained in the tank. It regarded quite beat-up. an same component kept occurring, till after some months there have been in basic terms 3 Jack Dempseys: a wide male, a wide lady, and a smaller male. After some months, one or both absolutely one of the different fish killed the smaller male. So I had a pair very last, and that i became hoping they might breed. possibly they might have, yet not lengthy after that I moved to a clean city, and the female did not live to inform the tale the flow. i do not comprehend if the male killed her or not (they were interior an same field for shipping). That became about a year in the past. So now I have one wide male Jack Dempsey, swimming decrease to and fro in his inner most tank, flashing his huge pink teeth at everyone who comes close to and attempting to bite them by the glass. that is not for not something that this fish became named for Jack Dempsey, the stunning specialist boxer of the Nineteen Nineteen Twenties. it really is all some distance of exclaiming, in basic terms yet another aggressive cichlid a minimum of as huge as Jack (in all likelihood larger) has a lot chance of surviving contained in the tank with him.
2016-12-05 06:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by blessing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had Jack Dempseys - lovely creatures.
We kept ours with Convict Cichlids and African Cichlids. They got along great.
I would not mix Cichlids (Dempseys are a variety of them too) with more mild mannered fish though, like guppies or angels, etc. They might get gulped, lol.
Oscars will eventually get big enough to eat your Dempseys, so I would leave them out also...
Good luck!!!
2006-10-26 07:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥♥ Mommy to Two ♥♥♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I kept Oscars with mine
2006-10-26 06:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by infernal_seamonkey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything bigger than they are. in my tank i have a red midas and two green terrors with a jack
2006-10-26 07:53:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sm@rtAs$ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep those they will tear up anything else beside bottom feeders!!!
Waho
2006-10-26 06:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋