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I have a question about fish compatibility. I have two tanks that I am thinking of combining into one larger tank (possibly 60g to 75 g).

My 20g tank contains two angels(one medium,one large),one small discus, and one gourami(2 inches long).

My 30g tank contains three parrot fish (the largest is about 4 inches long, the smallest is about 2 inches long), 2 Blue Acaras (2 inches long each), 3 tiger barbs, and 1 catfish (5 inches long).

My concern is with the interaction between the parrots and the fish from the other tank. Has anyone had experience with parrots and angel fish together in one tank? I'd appreciate some help with this. Thanks!

i don't know about mixing the two tanks, my gut feeling is no.

but you should really move the 20g fish into a much large tank and get more discus they perfer to be in group.
just get a 75g and then add only the 20g fish to it with 3 more discus.

[span class="edited"][Edited by shekoi 2004-09-07 08:19][/span]

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no i wouldnt combine tanks, but your either going to need to take alot of fish back to your lfs or get 2 bigger tanks.

for the acaras- id put them, and the tiger barbs,plus fill out your school of tigers to atleast 6, 8 would probably be better. in the 30, an call it done.

your gonna need a 50-55 gal for those 2 angels and gourami and catfish. you could then add a school ( atleast 6) of smaller fish like tetras , danios, ect...you also need to find out what kind of catfish you have- look in the profiles , find out, and let us know.

for the 3 blood parrots- they get big, 8 in long about 6 in high, and really thick bodied, i wouldnt put them in anything smaller than a 75 gal, although bigger would be better.

i dont know much about discus, except they need excellent water quality, so i wouldnt put it in any of the other tanks.

most of the fish you have are gonna to atleast double in size, if you dont get t hem out of those little tanks, they will stunt- meaning their insides will continue to grow, and the outside wont, causing a slow and miserable death, if you cant provide them with adaquate housing, take them back and get fish more suited to the tanks you have.

I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I've been a member on a blood parrot forum for awhile, and the guidelines they use say a "minimum" of 15 gals per BP. I know they can get up to 9 inches, most seem to stay in the 6 in range. Make sure there's a lot of caves/hidey holes for the bp's. I'd go with at least the 75 gal since you were considering that anyway. I have read of several people having luck w/ bp's and angels.(I don't know the minimum tank size for angels though). It really depends on the bp's personality. I've heard of some that won't tolerate anything else in the tank, & some that get along great with neons. I wouldn't mix the discus & tiger barbs in, discus need pristine water quality. The tb's I'd be afraid would terrorize the angels. What kind of catfish do you have?

I have got 2 blood parrots and 4 angles with rainbow fish, keyholes, gourami and silver dollors in a 400 litre tank and they all get along fine mine came from two tanks that i combined just over a week ago and i have had no problems at all.

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See if you can get hold of a Juwel rio 400 it is a brillant tank i highly recommend it. Here is a link for you to see what it looks like it looks smaller than it is but it is in reality very big.
http://www.aquacare.co.uk/shop/enter.html?target=AquariumsRio_400.html

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Hi..tessa is wright..that tank is pretty big..you can have a lot of fishes in that tank..plants..hideouts..etc.
planning to buy one my self.

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

The comment about the insides of the fish growing but not the outside . . . Is this true? I always have heard that the fish will grow to fit the parameters of the tank that they are in, but have never heard of the insides growing and not the outsides. It doesn't seem logical to me.

Well Phishy apparently it is true yes. I am not sure if there is scientific evidence but maybe someone could enlighten us if there is or not.

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