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April 15th, 2009
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| bolivian ram?
ok i have a 63g tank and it currently has 3 clown loaches, 2 silver dollars, 1 tiger barb 1 firemouth, 1 rubber lip pleoc and 1 blue gourami. i was wondering if i could add a bolivian ram pair  gourami_firemouth[1] (2).JPG there's my firemouth and blue gourami and as you can see they're rather small. and i just added this because its like hilarious.
Last edited by mr. Clown Loach; April 17th, 2009 at 07:44 PM.
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April 15th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Before adding anything else, I'd get the numbers of the schooling fish higher i.e. silver dollars & tiger barbs. | |
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April 15th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Personally I think a BR would be really stressed out in that tank. | 
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April 15th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| why do you think they would be stressed out? | |
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April 15th, 2009
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| Because a lot of those fish are larger and/or more aggressive than the BR. | |
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April 16th, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| like | |
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April 16th, 2009
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| I would be mostly concerned with the Firemouth, since as a fellow cichlid he is mostly like to pick on a new, smaller cichlid...at easily double the size of a Bolivian and more aggressive, that could go badly.
Tiger Barbs are also notorious bullies and nippers, especially when kept without a proper school as is the case here.
Blue gouramis can be really nasty or really passive...depends on the fish. And what seems passive now could just be the bottom of the totem pole, and turn out quite mean when it has a 'weaker' fish to bully.
JMHO | |
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April 16th, 2009
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| blue gourami is a female and won't harm anything. my tiger barb schools with my clown loaches even when i added fellow tiger barbs and will even lay on its occasionally and the firemouth i can take out get the rams used to the tank then add him back in... | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| I wouldn't add a Ram either. They're really peaceful fish, whereas most of your current fish are aggressive. | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| my fish aren't aggressive!!! the only mark any of my fish have is my clown loach that had it when i got it | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| Aggressive means that they can be boisterous or territorial. Tiger Barbs are nippy, Clown Loaches get huge, and are very boisterous, and Firemouths are territorial, and also twice the size of Bolivian Rams. | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| but they'd get used to them if they're put together young just like angels right? | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| Maybe, maybe not. It's definitely not a situation set up for success.
It sounds like you are bound and determined to do it anyway though, so I'm not really sure what else to tell you. | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| i'll just wait til this summer when i make my pond and move my goldfish out of the 29g | |
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April 17th, 2009
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| Sounds like a good plan  | |
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April 18th, 2009
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| yet a painful plan...  | |
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