New Fish

[TiffanyJayne]

I recently bought a female red terror and 2 gold saums (male and female), they went into my large tank with the moustache, giraffe, pengasius, suns and feather fin catfishes, 3 fire mouths and a tiger barb.

I've decided to move them onto a separate tank with the giraffe to leave more space for other fishes, however there still seems to be so much space in the tank so has anyone got any ideas what can go in with saums?

I want to get some cribs, texas cichlids, jewel cichlids, oscars i understand these all need separate tanks but it gives a little insight as to the type of fish im looking for.

Any help appriciated as im stuck and the net doesn't seem to give much info into saums.

If i can't get them something to share there tank with they'll have to go, as much as my partner likes them i disagree with wasting good tank space.
The males is about 8 inches and the females about 6inches the problem is finding fishes this big for sale in LFS or online.

 

[shroob]

What size is the tank?

You have quite a few very large and very aggressive fish on that list.

 

[TiffanyJayne]

What size is the tank?

You have quite a few very large and very aggressive fish on that list.

The tank the moustache and the 2 saums are in is just over 4 foot by 12inch deep and 18inch high, it's not the biggest of tanks but it does look extremely empty as the moustache stays in his tube in the middle and the female stays in 1 corner at all times.

 

[Flagtail]

First off, you shouldn't have green terrors with red terrors. They may fight till one die. It may work it might not.
What do you mean by pengasius? Do you mean the shark catfish?? Id sharks, and paroon for example. Those will get to be about 4-5 ft.
Is the girafee a girafee catfish??
You should keep 1 green terror,the sun cats, the synos, and up the numbers of the tiger barbs.

 

[TiffanyJayne]

First off, you shouldn't have green terrors with red terrors. They may fight till one die. It may work it might not.
What do you mean by pengasius? Do you mean the shark catfish?? Id sharks, and paroon for example. Those will get to be about 4-5 ft.
Is the girafee a girafee catfish??
You should keep 1 green terror,the sun cats, the synos, and up the numbers of the tiger barbs.

Please re-read the above post, the green are no longer with the red.

The pengasius yes the huge catfish, it was given with a tank i picked up and no lfs wanted him so i've kept him, thankfully he seems to have had a growth stunt at 4 inches so he's ok at the moment should that change i will accomadate his larger size.

The giraffe again an unwanted fish (im a softy) but he seems happy enough where he is for now.

the green terrors and the giraffe are together the rest are in a 5.5 foot tank and seem to be getting on great, the barb is a nasty peice of work and has taken on every fish in sight so i can't up the number as the last lot i put in she ate almost completely so the only choice was to put her in with bigger fiesty fish again she came in a 2 foot with the peng and other fishes.