Top 10 Tank Mates for Electric Blue Acara

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The top 10 tank mates for Electric Blue Acara. Electric Blue Acara are one of our favorite cichlids due to their size, coloration and wide range of tank mates. Since they are relatively peaceful for a medium-sized cichlid, the tank mate options go from other American cichlids, to plecos, to some tetras and barbs. For more information on the Electric Blue Acaras, check out the two other videos we’ve done on them below:

Electric Blue Acara Growth Rate – https://youtu.be/fFIPEVdpETs

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Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you next week!

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30 thoughts on “Top 10 Tank Mates for Electric Blue Acara”

  1. Do you think I could have Corys, Acaras, a single Angelfish, and maybe some Tetras in a 55 with mostly aquasoil and pebble substrate and living plants? Asking because I'm just getting back into fish after like 15 years and don't want to make anybody uncomfortable. It seems like all the fish would get along with each other but my concern is if the environment would suit them and if the plants would survive.

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  2. I had 2 electric blue acaras. One fish dominated the other so I split them up. One died when I had an ick outbreak in my 40 gallon tank… But the dominant one has thrived in my 75 gallon. He's worked out very well with my Columbian and Bruno's Aires tetras … I also have different types of corydoraa and bristlebose plecos……. And five female Bettas. The tank has been successful for a year now. I only lost 2 mystery snails

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  4. i started with a 150g tank for my first aquarium. I first put in a pleco and 6 angelfish. no problems. after a few weeks I put in 4 electric blues after watching a bunch of your videos. Cichlid Bros are the best videos to watch IMO. Unfortunately the electric blues that I picked were aggressive and bullying and killed a couple of the angelfish. Now I'm worried about getting the red spotted severum that I wanted to get. Any suggestions on how to get a severum into my tank with the bully electric blues?

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  5. What are peoples thoughts one 4 angelfish and 2 electric blues in a 55 gallon? Just wanna know before I make a purshase. I have 2 blues in the 55 as of now and they are happy healthy and I believe paired because the never leave each other’s side but haven’t seen any eggs or fry

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  12. Just the video I was looking for! I have one tank, now, a 30g community – tetras and corydoras. The LFS has the Electric Blue Acara, and it was all I could do today to keep myself from bringing it home and putting it in this tank. I have decided to get another tank, a 55g or 75g (most likely 75g), for a cichlid community. The LFS is not encouraging of the "community" aspect. This video gives me confidence that I should be able to pull it off!. I really want that Electric Blue badly and several of the ones you put on your list. Thanks very much! I've watched two of your videos, and I'm off to check out the others.

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  25. Hi!
    I bought two electric blue acaras. I was advised to put them with Malawi cichlid, but they were almost killed overnight. Managed to save them and added where I keep bigger goldfish with some congo terras and Buenos Aires tetras even some Bosmani Rainbows. All seem well at first, as the blue acara got litte bigger they seem to team up on the bigger size gold fish, almost 10-20 times their size. And eventually I need to remove the goldfish to hospitalize. The smaller goldfish, even some that is only 5 to 8 times their size they seem to leave alone.

    I'm now thinking of ditching the idea of haring a goldfish fish tank and convert it to a Oscar tank. OT is family big. I should be able to have to oscars with the acaras in their. Probably have to poulate the otter smaller rainbow and terras fish as Oscar start to out grow them.

    Any thoughts, seeing as you guys are the pros coming to ciclids😊

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  26. All of my Electric Blue Acara’s tank mates are on your list. 😂.

    1 Electric Blue Acara
    1 Geophagas Surinamisis
    1 Blood Parrot Cichlid
    1 Convict Cichlid
    1 Albino Bristle Nose Pleco
    1 Rubbernose Pleco
    4 Emerald Green Corydoras
    12 Colombian Tetras

    Wait… I forgot about the two bumblebee catfish, but don’t think they count since me and the other fish never see them until I pull the rocks up during water changes. Lol

    Update: just added a Convict today as a substitute for a firemouth that wasn’t fitting in well, and tried a convict as you had him as an honorable mention despite other research that made me leery. Glad I did, they’re all getting along fine.

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