Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 6:38 pm Fish in a Turtle tank
Hello everyone, first, I just joined this forum. I've done quite a bit of reading on here over the last year and thank you all for your knowledge that you share with everyone. It has been very helpful! Second, I have read a lot of different posts and opinions on here and other sites on what fish can coexist with a red eared slider. Currently in my tank I have 1 female res about 9". She is 7 years old, I have a mature Mbuna African Cichlid 5 or 6"(super aggressive, picks on the turtle here and there), and I don't know what kind of fish about 6"(he's not getting any bigger than this), I just call him Bob the Bass because he kinda resembles a miniature bass. I have these three guys in a 140gal tank, they all get along with minimal problems other than the cichlid bullying the res a litte. They all have been tankmates for the last two years. I also have a black tiger Oscar which is about 3" right now in a separate tank with a South American Bumblebee Catfish that will eventually be around 3" mature and a Senegal Bichir(dinosaur eel) that is 3" right now that can get up to roughly 17" and these three get along with zero issues. What I want to do is eventually add the Oscar, catfish and the Bichir to the 140gal with the others. My question, will I be over crowding if I do that? The biggest guys in there will be the res, eventually the Oscar will get most likely bigger than the res and then the Bichir which will be around 14-17" roughly give or take. And the Bichir will be long and slender like an eel, not sure if that matters. Any opinions or advice is much appreciated. Sorry for the long post and thanks again!
