Help With Fish Compatibility

jennyj22uk

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I would just like to know would the following fish be compatible?

- Angelfish
- Algae Eater
- Siamese Fighter
- Marble Peacock
 
i don't think the angel with the siamese fighter is a good idea. not sure about the others though.
i'm sure someone with more knowledge will help more. :good:
 
I keep a Betta splendens in a tank with a few angels in it and find no problem with them getting along. It is a large tank because angels require a large tank, they are very large cichlids when full grown. The minimum water depth recommended for angels is 18 inches, 45cm, so the tanks that meet the minimum are often quite large. There are lots of fish called algae eaters and even more that are algae eaters. They include over 100 species of the plecostomus group and many species of the otocinclus group. There are also chinese algae eaters, flying foxes and siamese algae eaters. Depending on which fish you are talking about, they may or may not be compatible. The chinese algae eaters, for instance, are not very good at eating algae but are known as fish that will attach themselves to a large fish's slime coat and use that as a food source when they get older. I have never kept them so I can't say that is true from my own experience, but it is a reputation that they have. The peacock is a very incomplete name for us to try to help with. There are fish called peacock gudgeons and some ramirezi and apistogramma tend to have fancy names that might include the word peacock. If you could narrow that down for us it would help.
 
Agree, each of these fish has its own considerations and for each, there are immediate things that jump out at you.

An angel will need at least 17 inches of tank height and because it will grow to be a large cichlid, at some point it may indeed begin chomping on the flowing fins of the betta, if not immediately. The angel will also probably not be compatible with the peacock.

I've never had one but I believe the marble peacock is one of those fish best kept in a "species" tank all by itself and possibly in a maximum number of one ( :lol: ) until you are ready to breed it. It probably needs a tank with sand and of more than 100 US gallons volume. Its not what we would call a community fish, to say the least.

The term "algae eater" includes a broad number of species, some wildly different than others. There are the tiny "Otos" and much bigger fish. If you are thinking of the big Plecs with sucker mouths then you need to be aware that you have to study the exact species carefully as many will grow to be more than a foot long and need enormous tanks.

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