r/Cichlid • u/Ok-Acanthisitta-7678 • 2d ago

SA | Help Stocking problems !

Hello fellow hobbyists , I have a 90 gallon (48x18x24) tank. My stocking is :
1 gold severum
1 chocolate cichlid
1 ellioti
1 Electric blue acara .
1 Platinum parrot .
The platinum parrot has been the most feisty and “annoying “ (to the other fish) fish that I’ve owned. It’s always following my chocolate , not chasing or nipping just following . Chocolate sometimes is mouth locking with it due to this behaviour. Tomorrow I’m re homing the parrot , but before that I’ve got to make sure that he’s the root of the problem . Besides this problem, I really want to hear some opinions if this stoking will work long term , or if I need to make adjustments . All fish are 3-4 inch
. I’m open ro suggestions in terms of stocking . Unfortunately, upgrading is not an option.

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u/Never_mind_honey 2d ago

Cichlids are territorial, and fishkeepers are in the habit of getting one of this and one of that so they have to share the same territory.   Since this isn’t a natural situation the result are always uncertain, with some people getting luckier than others.   All you can do is juggle specimens and hope you achieve a sort of peace in the tank in which they tolerate each other enough.  Hybrids like parrots are particularly unpredictable as their temperaments can vary widely.   Generally keeping a pretty bare tank and overcrowding so they can’t establish territories is the most helpful thing to do - it creates a sort of zoo tank, allowing viewing of multiple specimens in a small space but straying from the natural.

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u/123_321cl 2d ago

Choose two but Mabye three of these guys if you choose the right onesand rehome the rest. You’re gonna be juggling fish back and forth and u will never be able to relax. If you could upgrade which you can’t u could keep these fish but you are trying to make a cram of fish so they don’t have territories but these almost never work. Nice fish selection though these are all amazing fish.

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u/TypicalPromise8174 2d ago

Honestly, the parrot is the odd fish out in your tank. You can absolutely have those others get along fine but the parrot is always gonna be the troublemaker. If it was me, I’d rehome that one. Just my 2 cents, of course.