Silver Dollars prefer subdued lighting and a dark substrate. They are shy but beautiful fish that seem most active after the tank lights are out, but when the room lights are still on. They are egg layers.
Silver Dollars Species Quick Stats
Food: Feed them a diet of earthworm (sectioned) bloodworm, beefheart, and shrimp. They also like tropical flake food and spirulina flakes or sea weed salad.
Silver Dollars (Metynnis and Myleus sp.) are also quite active and different enough that they tend to mix fairly well. There are a number of species, some of which do not get large enough for this application.
Silver Dollars are small fish that are round in shape and silver in color, hence the common name of "Silver Dollar.
Silver dollars are hardy fish and they eat anything hungrily. Due to this, plus their ability to swim at fast speeds, they make excellent tank mates for predator fish in a large tank with good swimming area.
Silver dollars natively live in a tropical climate in the sides of weedy rivers. They prefer water with a pH of 5-7, a water hardness of up to 15 dGH, and an ideal temperature range of 75-82 °F (24-28 °C).
Silver Dollars & Pacus
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Silver Dollars love foods of all kinds. Often any flake, frozen, pellet, or small live food will suffice.
Breeding is not known.
Sexing can be accomplished by looking the the cheek area. Males may have an faint orange or red spot.
Silver dollars are nervous fish, so subdued lighting and plenty of hiding places made from plants (real and fake) and wood will allow this fish to feel secure.
I love silver dollars. Although they aren't bright or exotic looking they are just so unique. I had 3 who fell to ich and now that I have my tank back healthy, I am going to get 5 of them!
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I've bought 7 silver dollars during the past ten years and they're the best fish I've come across. One of the silver dollars has lived for 9 and half years in my tank and it's as strong/fast as it has been 9 and half years ago.
SC : Cichlasomines, Pimelodids, Loricarids, Pacus, Piranha, Silver Dollars, Arawana.
FOOD : Fish are the main part of the diet for most Pike Cichlids.
The fry of my first cacatuoides spawn are adult now, most have been sold or auctioned, but I kept the two best males and three females in a 55 gal, with a school of eight quite peaceful silver dollars (the spotted type) and a medium size angelfish.
All it needs is a reasonable amount of light, water with nutrients in (such as those produced by any collection of fishes), and an absence of those fishes that will make a snack of it, such as Tinfoil Barbs or Silver Dollars.
Most notable for requiring vegetables are the plecos (South American algae eating catfishes), silver dollars (vegetarian relatives of the piranha), and mbuna (rock-dwelling cichlids from Lake Malawi, Africa).
I have both a redclaw and a blue lobster in our tank with some large silver dollars and large grommies. Whether there is a connection or not, I recently noticed that my testing resulted in high ammonia.
Oscars, silver dollars, Gars, Plecostomus, Large Pacus, and other similarly sized cichlids will get along quite well with Green Terrors. A Green Terror should not be kept with any African Cichlids once they reach adulthood.
Breeding Information: Silver Dollars breed in schools so a large bottom area is required for an entire school to breed. Eggs are typically laid on or near plants.
Sexing Information: The anal fin is typically longer and more colorful on males.
Herbivores, such as Plecos, African Cichlids, Pacus, and Silver Dollars, are plant eaters. They do well with staple flake foods and algae wafers. They can also be supplemented with finely chopped lettuce, spinach, zucchini, or green peas.
South American dwarf Cichlids, larger Characins such as Silver Dollars (Metynnis spp.) are ideal although medium sized Central American Cichlids and Asian anabatids are good alternatives if your are not a biotope purists.
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Some of these include Silver Dollars, some loaches, Rummynose tetras, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.
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Comment : I have tried most of the different brands easily to get. Have gotten to Omega One and have been impressed. My Silver Dollars go crazy for them and the spiralina wafers from Omega. I am even willing to drive the 100 miles to get it.
Social: Does best as the only Angel or in schools of at least five. Will successfully live with Catfish, Mollies, Silver Dollars, Clown Loaches, Gouramis. Lives at any level in the aquarium.
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Company: Abramites hypselonotus (Marbled Headstander) does best in an south American setup with for example Silver Dollars and Severums.
Water parameters: Temperature 22-25°C / 72-77°F; pH 6.5 - 7.5 ...
As usual the piranha display caused much interest among visitors. I liked the mbuna display with its various colour forms of zebra cichlids. Some newly installed silver dollars were forming a tightly packed shoal and had a beautiful North American ...
Your aquarium plants could be nibbled away in no time at all if you put them in a tank containing Silver Dollars or worse still, you could find them completely uprooted by your Goldfish or Oscars.
Can I put these African Cichlids or those Silver Dollars in my aquarium?" You may be surprised at some of the answers you'll get. By the way, the answer to all three of those questions is NO! (Without exception).
hypsauchen with plenty of vegetable-based food like spirulina flakes, blanched and cooled lettuce, even shelled peas. There are actually several characin species sold as "Silver Dollars," including Metynnis argenteus and Mylossoma aureum.
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