Meet my New Fish!

[king2005]

Did you name it? Did I miss the name? I'm confused.

She named the fish HeadMaster

[Kalei]

Thanks for the advice King2005, I know quite alot about fish since I"ve owned many different kinds all my life, but I really appreciate you looking out for me and my fish. Thanks for letting me know its a she, I didn't know that, and now I do, yay!

She is in a 55 gallon tank and yes there are some other fish in there with her. But ones an angelfish, and the angelfish is bigger than her and they don't bother each other. There are some smaller fish in there as well and I do expect them to probably get eaten eventually, but I may take some of them out and put them in my father's tropical tank so they can live

[Kalei]

Hehe I just noticed the fish you saw in the last picture, that one isn't real, its on the background of my tank.

[king2005]

Hehe I just noticed the fish you saw in the last picture, that one isn't real, its on the background of my tank.

Ok good, cause it looked small hehehe

Good to hear shes in a good enviroment.

Just one more thing... She more then likely will all of a sudden start attacking the Angelfish. My JD lived with an Oscar 4 times his size for many years.. Then one day they litterly turned enemies! Jack would start bitting Oscar & in return Oscar would try to bite Jack.. It was a war between those 2 I had to put a huge rock really close to the glass so Jack could get away from Oscar. It was very sad as Oscar bit Jack one day. Jack was soooo scared to leave his rock. & I think Oscar felt bad was she stopped trying to eat Jack.

[IRescue452]

Haha that's a good rendering of a rummynose tetra. I think this is the same background with the twin bar platies that fooled me one day.

I have to agree with King2005 on this one. The JD is probably calm right now because it is recovering from the stress of moving. Give it a few days and it will be back to its aggressive self. American cichlids really don't do well in mixed species tanks.

[petslover]

He is really pretty. Congrats!

[Kalei]

Thanks you guys So would a JD get along with another JD? Cause I don't want to just have one in the tank and that's it, if I could have two would be nicer. If I see him start attacking the angelfish then I will have to remove the angelfish to another tank.

[king2005]

Unless you have a much much larger tank, then yes you can get 2.. but a 50gal is only good for 1 JD & no friends. Not even pleckos, or catfish, or snails...

Large cichlids are the kind of fish you keep alone. Many do not do well with their own kind in a tank, as they are just too close to each other. They need a lot of terrirtory to be able to live in the same tank.

I had 3 baby Red Devils (What Mango was) & they all tried to kill each other... Only 1 lived & that was Mango..

When the JD turns on the angel fish, it'll be too late to do anything... He'll tear chunks out of it.. JD have sharp teeth.. Jack was only about 6" & he bit me once & I bled. It was an accident as I had taught him to jump out of the water & take food from my hand.. however he learned that if he bit me he'd still get the food as I would drop it cause he bit me hard!! lol They are VERY smart fish.

I love them

[IRescue452]

Boy youa re brave. I won't stick my fingers within inches of my sunfish's tank surface. I've seen him eat the snails I have, and they say nothing can eat trumpet snails cause they are so rock hard. A finger would fit in his mouth so easily.