What kind of fish can live in a tank with 2 pacu and 2 red eared sliders?

i want something colorful.

What kind of fish can live in a tank with 2 pacu and 2 red eared sliders?
First of all, no fish should live with a red eared slider because the water quality and temp will never be right, and the turtle may eventually eat them.


Second, Red bellied Pacus will quickly outgrow a 55 gallon tank! They grow huge, and are mainly vegetarians. No way on Earth should they be housed with a turtle.


If you want something in your tank with your turtle, just buy him small comets and replace them whenever he eats them.


Buy a large tank for your Pacus or return them, and next time remember to do research on any animal before you buy it. This is good advice - I'm not trying to insult you.





ADD: Well I guess since you had a turtle and some fish for a year you must be an expert. *Rolls eyes* Years of experience and research don't matter if you've owned an animal for a whole year! FYI - just because the tank LOOKS clean doesn't mean it is. Do a search on the NITROGEN CYCLE for pete's sake.
Reply:Rather than putting something else in your tank, you should consider building a pond.





Each pacu will get close to 4 feet long (and they DON'T just grow to the size of your tank). The sliders can get up to 16" long depending on the gender. They also need access to land area so they can get completely out of the water. Even if you have one of the ramps or floating turtle docks, your tank can't be filled all the way to the top. Both the pacu and turtles are tremendous waste producers, and if you don't have a large tank, any other fish (and even the pacu in time) are going to be headed for ammonia or nitrite poisoning. And RES, when young, are piscivores (they eat fish).
Reply:NO FISH!!! the slider will eventually eat all the fish in the tank, when it reaches that age! to a slider, fish make a tasty meal!
Reply:Well for a starters its not ideal that turtles are kept with any fish, they certainly can and do take chunks out of even large fish, so it might be better to plan on seperating them, youll never know when a turtles behaviour could change to being more predatory. Sometimes it takes years.





Adult pacus are huge, potentially requiring aquaria of over 300 gallon when mature, one at bristol zoo weighs damn near as much as a child , and youd need some truly serious filtration for a beast like that, and sliders get to a foot long or so, so youll be needing a huge tank to allow them a dry area and basking facilities including a range of UVB that fish should not be exposed to on cancer and skin and slime layer damage grounds..





Unless I was confidant you knowing those facts I wouldnt be comfortable suggesting anything as whatever I suggest could be eaten or critically wounded and subjected to some horrific water qualities.


Setting up something for these two species that would be adequate for all of their lives would come to what? 3500 USD? Or more?
Reply:a 150 gallon tank is big, but a 2000 gallon tank is required for 2 pacus! you cannot do this.
Reply:No more fish. Your Pacus are not done growing, and, unless you starve them, you're going to have problems as they continue to grow larger.





Not what you wanted to hear, I know. I personally think pet stores should stop selling Pacus because it is very rare that a hobbyist has the money or space for the setup needed for them.
Reply:hi adam hmm I dont know bout much with the pacu Ive heard of the name before but i am unsure. All I know is that they are aggressive and will eat anything that is smaller than them. The turtles are gold fish eaters as well. They eat fish, pellates ,and the ocassional bugs and worms. I think you could go on google and type in the question. Also theres a place called ask jeeves.com try these and seach to see if you get any results. I dont know if youre public library has fish books. If not go to your local fish/petstore like petco or petsmart and ask somene in this dept. for some additional advice. Hope this helps.
Reply:oscars, cichlids and anyother large fish


what size aquarium do you have


also you can do discus florida garss and other cichlids



diseases