Panaque tank mates

[Mark421]

Hi I'm thinking of adding some other fish to my panaque tank (to keep the girlfriend happy). It's a 6x2x2 tank as you may of seen in my other threads.

There is fast flowing water from the powerful filteration (5mm intake holes)

My ph is above 7

I'm thinking a largish school of something like neons or rummy nose tetras and maybe a pair of cichlids (nothing to aggressive).

Thanks in advance

 

[Jackson]

I'd go with a group of Geos.

 

[Mark421]

I love geo's and thought about having them. Only thing if I ever want to get rid of the sand because of the mess the geo's will have to go.

How aggressive are they when they are breeding?

Cheers

 

[Jackson]

I don't keep mine in sand I use a fine gravel.

Depends on what type but typically most are not that aggressive.
I keep two types groups of 4 and a group of 5 in a 75 4x18 and all you get is chasing away from their spots. Nothing bad at all.

 

[Mark421]

Cool, and what about dietary requirements? As I know little about keeping these.

 

[Jackson]

You can feed them the same pellets as you panaque. They'll eat green peas. I also feed mine some mysis shrimp here and there.
I feed them lots of food to get them to spawn. Water changes aren't needed to trigger them just a good quality diet in large quantities.

 

[Mark421]

Cool good to know. Which geo's do you keep? What PH do you keep them in?

I didn't want any fish that would affect the panaques!

Cheers

 

[Jackson]

Cool good to know. Which geo's do you keep? What PH do you keep them in?

I didn't want any fish that would affect the panaques!

Cheers

I keep all my fish now in regular tap water that I treat with safe.
Ph is 7-7.6 water is slightly hard out of the tap. To be honest I haven't used a test kit in a very long time.

I have geophagus taeniopareius and geophagus pellegrini.
Both are some of the more aggressive Geos and small too.

Pellegrini are mouth brooders and taeniopareius are substrate spawners.

I had two groups of very large altiftons 8"+ which I sold recently. They are very peaceful fish.
Those were kept with my bigger panaque.