What other fish do you have with your cichlids?

MB wrote in message . ..
The topis says it all, what other fish swim around with your cichlids?
I'd like to get an idea of what are acceptable tank mates. The
cichlids I have are still small, nothing longer than 2 inches.


I keep 4 giant danios and 1 plec with my Oscar.

Subject: What other fish do you have with your cichlids?
From: (Cookie)
Date: 3/20/2004 4:56 PM Central Standard Time
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MB wrote in message
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The topis says it all, what other fish swim around with your cichlids?
I'd like to get an idea of what are acceptable tank mates. The
cichlids I have are still small, nothing longer than 2 inches.


I keep 4 giant danios and 1 plec with my Oscar.


I keep Angelfish (yep..they're Cichlids), with fully grown Neons, a male Betta,
several female Bettas, Panda and Pygmy Cories, and African Dwarf Frogs.
Oh....Clown loachestoo.

How do Angle Fish do with Africans?



On 21 Mar 2004 03:33:23 GMT, (TYNK 7) wrote:

Subject: What other fish do you have with your cichlids?
From: (Cookie)
Date: 3/20/2004 4:56 PM Central Standard Time
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MB wrote in message
...
The topis says it all, what other fish swim around with your cichlids?
I'd like to get an idea of what are acceptable tank mates. The
cichlids I have are still small, nothing longer than 2 inches.


I keep 4 giant danios and 1 plec with my Oscar.


I keep Angelfish (yep..they're Cichlids), with fully grown Neons, a male Betta,
several female Bettas, Panda and Pygmy Cories, and African Dwarf Frogs.
Oh....Clown loachestoo.

(snipped)

Subject: What other fish do you have with your cichlids?
From: Ryan Minaker
Date: 3/21/2004 11:41 AM Central Standard Time
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How do Angle Fish do with Africans?



From what I know, Africans can only be mixed with the right type of other
Africans.

"Ryan Minaker" wrote in message
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How do Angle Fish do with Africans?

If you mean "Angelfish" the answer is depends, but not
something I personally would recommend. Africans
thrive in hard alkaline water (assuming we're talking
Mbunas and the like) and range from somewhat aggressive
to insanely ultraviolent.

Angels originally came from soft, acid river water, but
can accept a huge range of water conditions. Having said
that, African Rift-type water is really at the extreme and
they will not thrive. Although they can be aggressive with
each other, especially when spawning, they are very,
very gentle for cichlids.

Based only on second-hand experiences and general
knowledge, I wouldn't mix them. Having said that,
I'm sure someone will post that they've been doing this
for decades. But in this kind of setup, one or the other
variety will get the short straw and sub-optimal
conditions.

-coelacanth

Cool, thanks for the info. I've recently done a full cleaning of my
100G and I've decided that I'm going to try for a South American
Cichlid tank instead of African this time around.

So far I've purchased two Oscars. Do you think they would devour
Angles also? Any suggestions for South American's that I could mix
with my oscars?

Thanks!
Ryan



On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:12:44 GMT, "coelacanth"
wrote:


"Ryan Minaker" wrote in message
.. .
How do Angle Fish do with Africans?

If you mean "Angelfish" the answer is depends, but not
something I personally would recommend. Africans
thrive in hard alkaline water (assuming we're talking
Mbunas and the like) and range from somewhat aggressive
to insanely ultraviolent.

Angels originally came from soft, acid river water, but
can accept a huge range of water conditions. Having said
that, African Rift-type water is really at the extreme and
they will not thrive. Although they can be aggressive with
each other, especially when spawning, they are very,
very gentle for cichlids.

Based only on second-hand experiences and general
knowledge, I wouldn't mix them. Having said that,
I'm sure someone will post that they've been doing this
for decades. But in this kind of setup, one or the other
variety will get the short straw and sub-optimal
conditions.

-coelacanth

Polarhound wrote:

Just about anything put into the tank with my buttikoferi would be
chunks of fish guts within hours.

I need to correct this earlier statement of mine.

My 4" Buttikoferi has been co-existing well with a 3.5" Leporinus. They
both have their territories (The koferi can't fit into the Lep's hiding
spots) and they often swim together in the tank with only occasional
chases along the lines of, "I think I want to be where you're swimming,"
movement which has been done by both of them.