Hi guys, love the info avail etc, finally time to ask a question of you all. Do any of you have any experience keeping Oscars and Jewel cichlids together as I'm after some colour for the tank? Also considering keeping Severums but need to be carefull not to overstock as tank is 6'x2'x18" appx 486 litres (105 gallon?)
Preference for more fish so I guess smaller lowers the bio load somewhat.
Any help would be appreciated, Cheers.

Welcome to the forum Dog
I have Oscars, Severums and Jewels plus a few others all together in a 180 US gallon tank. The Jewels are much smaller than everybody else but so far no one has bothered them. The female Green Terror will face them and and they'll back off but no one has touched them. I have lots of little hiding places for them and they seem to like the smallest places. They don't stick together like the other species do and mine are even more shy than my Silver Dollars.

If you look close you can see one inside the ship, they stay close but not quite together.

i keep jewels in the same tank as oscars........i have lost a few over the years but generaly they are fine..but try to stick to one sex with jewels as a breeding pair can take down fish 4 times their size!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you serious? These sweet shy mild little things??

Wow, I just read about them. I was told they were South American NOT African. I'm gonna get a good close pic and let you look. Mine don't look like the ones I saw.

yep sin ..im serious ...breeding jewels are very very very agressive ...and relentless towards others when breeding...most fish chase others out of their territory then stop chasing .....not jewels im affraid to say..they just dont stop!! .........i breed them on quite a large scale ....and have done for a few years.....red jewels i keep and at the moment i have 12 breeding pairs with annother 5 pairs waiting to team up ....theres also about 250 2" juv,s here as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are these Jewels? They run and hide when I go near the tank.

click on the 2nd pic for a bigger pic, they're in the background.

yep they look like jewels to me .......

insert cuss words here _____ _____ ______ !!!! Are my other fish in danger then?