Top 10 Tank Mates for Severum Cichlids

The top 10 tank mates for Severum cichlids. Severums are one of our favorite cichlids due to their size, color variations and wide range of tank mates. Since they are relatively peaceful for a large cichlid, the tank mate options go from other American cichlids, to plecos, to some tetras and barbs. For more information on the Severum, check out the two other videos we've done on them below:

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[CichlidBros]

Links to food I use with Severum cichlids:

[amymandeville]

I love this series, because it helps me think outside the box as far as tankmates go. What I'm doing is writing myself a future list by tank sizes and what I want to stock them with.

[UndeadVikingVideos]

Your channel should be 10 times the size that it is. Straightforward, to the point, great camera work. Thank you for making great content for me to watch. I currently have a Gold Severum and a Turqoise Severum in a 125 gallon tank with some Geophagus Tapajos and Firemouth Cichlids and have my eye on adding some more to the tank and this was a perfect video for me right now.

Keep up the great work!

[makiarn]

I could just listen to you all day. Love the content and love your channel. Severums are my favorite cichlid. I have a Peruvian green, orange shoulder, red shoulder, rio curare, iniridae, super red spotted gold, red spot gold, gold turquoise, and just recently lost my large green one. Keep the content coming. Oh and I forgot about my red bellied mouth brooder.

[krzysztofkopaczewski]

Interesting selection. Absolutely beautiful tank behind you and wonderful fish inside 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[danloyd]

Very good Severum video! In a 180 over the last 2 years, I’ve enjoyed raising 6 Red Spotted Severum Cichlids from their baby cream color to their brilliant adult red spots and now, they’re between 4-6 inches. Their Tank Mates were all raised together from babies with the Severums. This is the BEST behaved tank I’ve ever set-up. 

Tank Mates include one dozen Clown Fish, 12 Chinese Algae Eaters, three 3-4 inch Blue Loaches and one 7 inch Black Ghost Knife. Three large caves and a hollowed out Log allow the smaller Clown fish, Blue Loaches and Black Ghost Knife places to rest and breeding for the Severums. Two MarineLand’s 36” bamboo plants hang from the left and right glass top and dance with the water flow. Black River Rocks lay on top of a white cichlid substrate. 

My 72 Bow Front has 5 Blue Acaras that you mentioned as a favorite with 12 Clown Fish. Luckily, Clown Fish remind me of very exotic fish, yet, they are very affordable. The larger the school, the more they lose their shyness and play together day and night throughout both tanks.

[notoriously_sly]

Severums are so underrated imo, love all of mine and it's the first fish I've ever really bred. Funnily enough, I have a tank with 3 oscars, a red devil x Trimac hybrid, a red tiger motugenese, and a couple of jack dempseys. All of the fish aside from the 2 JD's and the RTM are bigger than the severum, yet the severum is the tank boss. Even borderline bullies the red devil hybrid! My mating pair is so fun to watch too, highly intelligent fs

[lifes_calling]

I have a turquoise severum, i love him so much. Such a cool fish!! He lives with an electric blue acara, and 2 female peacock cichlids, they all are getting along great. Your videos are awesome, thank you.

[ADHDAquatics]

Nice video it really makes me want to switch my 150g from a monster tank to a severum/cichlid tank. All the monsters are going to the pond in the summer I'm excited to explore severums. Thanks for all this

[smmk]

One of my favorite cichlids. I also like the geos, also.

[husseinjan]

I keep red shoulders with discus, , they’re perfectly fine, , very mellow and peaceful fish

[caseyruegsegger]

Great list. And the Uaru are beautiful! I bought my first electric blue acara today (thanks to your videos) can’t wait to add to my Severum tank after quarantine

[tracenhouchin]

I understand why this recommendation didn’t make it, but I think Severums go amazing with an arowana. Then down side is you do need either a massive tank, or a pool pond for the arowana. But man do they look amazing together

[jeffreyboster]

Great job dude, I have been raising Golden Severns for over 50yrs.

[santosleeli]

Great video! I keep my red spotted Severum with festivum and so far so good!

[Jerry-ljcf]

Great job and very informative about the cichlids and how well they go together ❤ 😀 👏 👍.

[antoinehage]

How do you manage water flow, Severum and Angle fish don't like a high flow aquarium and I think Geophagus prefere a higher flow? I'm starting my first aquarium and I'm trying to gather as much information as I can. Love your channel by the way

[mrdemocracy]

Severums beautiful fish with great personality and are my favourite chiclids

[howardlazarus]

Great video - thanks! The Macaw cichlid (Hypsophrys nicaraguensis) goes great with severums.

[lentunicliffe]

I love all your videos. As a newcomer to the hobby I find them informative and entertaining but as someone searching for advice I find the content very useful - thank you. I have recently set up a 4’ x 2’ x 2’ tank with rainbowfish, a firemouth and a rainbow shark. I’m now looking to set up a 5’x 2’ x 2’ tank with severums as the focus. Can I get 2 redshoulder and 2 green severums as juveniles and put then in the same tank? Btw, thanks to this video geophagus will be in the mix as well.