Silver Dollars?

[carney]

Hi
48x12x15 tank
30 gallon


can this house 4 silver dollars and 1 synotis catfish please?

 

[shroob]

Afraid not, I would say 48x18 would be the bare minimum, they are very active and sometimes skittish fish that can swim at high speeds. I had 4 in my vision 260 and rehomed them, I felt there wasn't enough room for them and thats before they were fully grown.

 

[kenny fish fanatic]

shroobs right i have 4 large,silvers and when i do water changes they fly from side to side at a 100 miles anhour,they always banging into things,iam going to sell them shortly,one of mines a spotted one to,they gr8 looking fish but really shy,,kenny

 

[shroob]

The spotted silver dollars you may be able to get away with. I had 3 of them from wharf, lovely fish especially the males, with their black edged fins and spots.

They grow smaller than regular silver dollars (and look better) so are a better choice if you feel you must get silver dollar like fish. Various sources say they grow from between 4-6" so still a fairly big when you consider the shape of the body. Richard Hardwick in THIS article on disc characins puts their size down at 4.5" which is what I would go on out of all the web sources.

 

[kenny fish fanatic]

good link there shroob,yes thats mine in the link the spotted ones smaller about 4in,the bigest silver is about 7in,and how true they wont allow me to put a real plant in there,i have loads of artificial,when i drop the food pellets in they catch them and swim about eating them,really greedy fish too,,kenny

 

[simonas]

The spotted silver dollars you may be able to get away with. I had 3 of them from wharf, lovely fish especially the males, with their black edged fins and spots.

They grow smaller than regular silver dollars (and look better) so are a better choice if you feel you must get silver dollar like fish. Various sources say they grow from between 4-6" so still a fairly big when you consider the shape of the body. Richard Hardwick in THIS article on disc characins puts their size down at 4.5" which is what I would go on out of all the web sources.

good article Shroob cheers for that

Carney as we've mentioned a few times in yours many posts on silver dollars recently they really need large swimming quarters due to their behaviour. They grow large ( mine are about saucer size almost) and they are very active and sometimes skittish. when I kept some in a 4ft 10 or so years ago I didn't liek them cos they were skittish. They are now one f my favourite fish in my tank as they are confident in a large tank. you won't get the benefit in a tank that size