My problem is I like fish with personalitys, these tend to be big aggressive sa/ca cichlids. I wanted to lower aggression and had heard from others about lowering aggression thru introducing extra fish. So I reluctantly tried it in my 110G. I was pretty hessitant about it but thought I would give it a shot. one of the reasons I wanted to try it was I felt my single FH was bored, it was constantly lying in the bottom of the tank for days on end seamingly bored. I picked up a Green texas oscar and midas all about 6" as well as a 5" Jaguar, I rearanged the tank, did a big water change and introduced these new fish.
With in a few hours the texas was missing a bunch of scales, the midas was batterd and bruised and the O and Jag were hiding in the top right corner of the tank.
My advisor said I needed more fish in the tank and time for them to settle in so I added another 5 inch nasty affrican that someone no longer wanted because it was terrorizing it's tank mates, this new fish now hides in the top corner with the jag and O.
I relocated the other fishies into 10g and 20G hospital tanks all set up on my kitchen counter ( you should of seen the wifes face when she got home, looked like she had been doing shots of pickle juice.) Any way I would like to know if it can be done but not at the expence of a fish's suffering..
That 48x24x24 120G at KE maybe an early self christmas present, on the other hand I wonder if I can keep all those fish in any sized tank ? I do like the personality of the affrican maybe Ill try them for a bit.