South American Cichlids Fighting

[V227]

Fish Frank, Acara are very closely related to green terrors. It's been my experience with the GT's that keeping two males in a tank is very difficult. Chances are your acara are males. Thankfully Acaras are a much more docile fish than their GT cousins. My daughter kept a single 5" electric blue Acara in a community tank with no aggression problems. It's likely things will work once they establish boundaries. Nice tank.

 

[Fish Frank]

Fish Frank, Acara are very closely related to green terrors. It's been my experience with the GT's that keeping two males in a tank is very difficult. Chances are your acara are males. Thankfully Acaras are a much more docile fish than their GT cousins. My daughter kept a single 5" electric blue Acara in a community tank with no aggression problems. It's likely things will work once they establish boundaries. Nice tank.

Thanks man, much appreciated advise.

 

[Brookster123]

Fish Frank, Acara are very closely related to green terrors. It's been my experience with the GT's that keeping two males in a tank is very difficult. Chances are your acara are males. Thankfully Acaras are a much more docile fish than their GT cousins. My daughter kept a single 5" electric blue Acara in a community tank with no aggression problems. It's likely things will work once they establish boundaries. Nice tank.

That tank will be a war zone if left as is?? 6 angels alone is a night mare waiting to happen. Not a nice tank, maybe now..

 

[dalto]

I do agree with brookster that this is a high risk tank. My experience with situations like this is that everything is fine.....until it isn't.

It goes from relative peace to chaos overnight sometimes.

 

[Fish Frank]

Thanks for the advice guys. Most of the fish I have are quite small and I introduced properly the two acaras fighting is the first fight I have witnessed in 1 year.

 

[Brookster123]

Thanks for the advice guys. Most of the fish I have are quite small and I introduced properly the two acaras fighting is the first fight I have witnessed in 1 year.

Those fish are a year old?

 

[Fish Frank]

Those fish are a year old?

No. I meant that I have not witnessed significant aggression in this tank since I got it (1 year ago). Sorry about that.

 

[Brookster123]

Watch it closely, all it takes is eggs at 6 pm and lights out... all heck breaks loose and you lose fish. I had 2 jumpers, lid literally had only a small openeing around the filter output, they wanted out that bad.