chris_todd
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A couple of months ago, we converted our 65g tank to a lake malawi tank, and picked up a bunch of mbuna from danger_chicken. We since added some cool melanochromis from sonny_disposition. This was our first dedicated cichlid tank.
We've really enjoyed that tank, there's lots of activity and color, but not too much aggression. There's chasing, but it's more like they're playing tag than what I would call agression, and that's just the way we like it (my girls wouldn't like it if fish were really beating up on each other, LOL).
We'd like to add one more species with a different color scheme, though, and wanted some suggestions, keeping in mind that we want something of similar temperment. While we've browsed cichlid-forum and numerous books and other websites, we thought we would ask the CCA membership the following question:
What would you add to our tank to give it some different colors?
Here's the tank's current contents:
Four cobalt zebras (all about 4-5" TL)
One large Red-top zebra (probably 8" TL, and fat, clearly the BMOC of the tank, LOL)
Six Melanochromis cyanorhabdos (maybe 3" TL, who have been taking on a very nice purple-ish tinge lately)
One pseudotropheus socolofi (~5" TL)
Eight or so Yellow lab younguns (1-2" TL)
Plucky, the 12" common pleco
Currently, the tank has PVC caves, some rocks, some plants, and ecocomplete for substrate, though we'll be changing that to pool filter sand in the next couple of weeks.
So we'd like something different, around 4-5" TL or less, not overly aggressive, but not shy hiders either.
There are no wrong answers, so throw out some suggestions!
We've really enjoyed that tank, there's lots of activity and color, but not too much aggression. There's chasing, but it's more like they're playing tag than what I would call agression, and that's just the way we like it (my girls wouldn't like it if fish were really beating up on each other, LOL).
We'd like to add one more species with a different color scheme, though, and wanted some suggestions, keeping in mind that we want something of similar temperment. While we've browsed cichlid-forum and numerous books and other websites, we thought we would ask the CCA membership the following question:
What would you add to our tank to give it some different colors?
Here's the tank's current contents:
Four cobalt zebras (all about 4-5" TL)
One large Red-top zebra (probably 8" TL, and fat, clearly the BMOC of the tank, LOL)
Six Melanochromis cyanorhabdos (maybe 3" TL, who have been taking on a very nice purple-ish tinge lately)
One pseudotropheus socolofi (~5" TL)
Eight or so Yellow lab younguns (1-2" TL)
Plucky, the 12" common pleco
Currently, the tank has PVC caves, some rocks, some plants, and ecocomplete for substrate, though we'll be changing that to pool filter sand in the next couple of weeks.
So we'd like something different, around 4-5" TL or less, not overly aggressive, but not shy hiders either.
There are no wrong answers, so throw out some suggestions!