Starting a 350 gallon vieja tank, any advice is welcome!

[HenryC]

So I'm about to acquire a 10ft long, 350g tank that I plan to stock with viejas, mainly melanura, zonatus and bifasciatas. My water is rock hard and I've been told they will thirve in it. I just wanted to ask for any suggestions/advice any experienced vieja keepers have, like what have you discovered with keeping vieja, perhaps breeding ease, feeding the right food, substrate/decor/plant prefferences, etc.

Thanks!

[Fish Folk]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:25 AM, HenryC said:

So I'm about to acquire a 10ft long, 350g tank that I plan to stock with viejas, mainly melanura, zonatus and bifasciatas. My water is rock hard and I've been told they will thirve in it. I just wanted to ask for any suggestions/advice any experienced vieja keepers have, like what have you discovered with keeping vieja, perhaps breeding ease, feeding the right food, substrate/decor/plant prefferences, etc.

Thanks!

So cool! No real advice… Jim Cumming in Canada would offer you sage advice.

They’ll need to be mature for breeding. Big Cichlids aren’t called “tank-busters” for nothing!

 

[TankofFish]

On 8/8/2021 at 4:25 AM, HenryC said:

So I'm about to acquire a 10ft long, 350g tank that I plan to stock with viejas, mainly melanura, zonatus and bifasciatas. My water is rock hard and I've been told they will thirve in it. I just wanted to ask for any suggestions/advice any experienced vieja keepers have, like what have you discovered with keeping vieja, perhaps breeding ease, feeding the right food, substrate/decor/plant prefferences, etc.

Thanks!

 

Nice 350 gallons!! 

wish I ccould be of some help but have never had a tank big enough to own one of them there fish

good luck