What this has all led up to

[Rudy]

After getting rid of my africans and getting all these fish I am hoping to bounce my ideas off everyone to see what problems I will run into.

My plan is my 187 gallon to be stocked as follows

Pair of Bleekeri
3 Cytacara Moori
Male and female true Aequidens rivulatus.
2 Frontosa
1 Geophagus Brasillias
1 wild caught Oscar
Here is the kicker. (I am going to try a dovii)

The africans are mostly a selfish nature as those are the ones I enjoy in my big tank. Come to think of it though all of the fish are ones I have always wanted.

PH from my taps come out about 7.6 which I think will be fine for everyone.
Most of the
fish are going to get a good head start on growth. Bleekeri and Fronts are quite large. I am taking all of the fish out of the tank for a week prior to introducing them. In that time I will redecorate it. Sand substrate with large driftwood and large rocks for decorations. I would like to do a den for the dovi by lining up rocks to make a sort of pool to show some seperation. Fish are growing up in seperate tanks right now. Not to big just enough to make sure they don't get swallowed.

I realize this is a very bizarre tank to say the least. Just about everything is wrong with the chemistry. Yet I feel if there is anyone to blame it is my wife as she won't let me have a tank to accomdate them all. :lol:
The good thing about her is that when fish are getting beat up or crowded she feels sorry for them and lets me get more tanks.

Is there anything else I can do to help this catastrophe work a bit better other than losing the dovi??

Thanks guys.

[Chet]

That sounds like a very cool tank. I would be very interested to see how things develop. My only concern would be the dovi as it gets larger. If you can make it work, it will be a sweet tank though. I would definitely try to overload the tank with fish, and provide a ton of hiding spaces, plants, caves, everything to break up the line of sight of the dovi.

[Rudy]

Actually Chet as most of the other fish are pretty gentle compared to the dovi I am only going to make one distink territory. Maybe a couple places for the females to hide out if needed but other than that it will be pretty open.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Rex Karr]

If the dovii is a male, I will garantee it won't work (because for one the tank would be to small). If its a female it could work (it will still reach 14" or so). But I really don't know much about female dovii so I can't say how aggressive she would be.

Hhhmmm........I don't know, it just a relly strange assortment of fish. I really don't know what to think about it :) I Guess, just try. Work through problems as they arise, and hope that in the end you can keep all the fish :)

Rex

[Rudy]

Dovii I am pretty sure is a female Rex. I don't get attached to fish very easily but the ones I do I really have a hard time getting rid of. Thanks for your input. I have to try it anyway right.......

[newworld]

everything in that tank is mild mannered, the dovii will kill everything the frontosas and moori haveno chance, if you are looking for dovii i have about 30 for sale, they are nice fish but need a large tank........