frontosa + mbuna

[Jinks]

anyone had atank with both?? water params seem fairly similar? Anyone?!

[JnS]

diets are way different, I would not reccomend it!

[JSchmidt]

I adopted a fully grown frontosa who lives in a mixed mbuna/hap tank (a 180) in my office. He's been there for a little over a hear and seems to do fine. The fish get a mixture of foods: JumboMin, Tetra Cichlid Sticks, Hikari Cichlid Excel and Hikari algae wafers.

This front was very aggressive (killed three other fronts in his previous home with another owner) or I would not have considered putting him in with big mbuna. The tank is big enough, and he's mean enough, that they all pretty much leave each other alone. As a rule, I'm not sure I'd put just any frontosa into a mbuna tank.

HTH,
Jim

[morleyz]

I also have a frontosa in a mixed mbuna tank and haven't had any problems (yet). The front is pretty much a loner...everyone leaves him alone and he leaves everyone else alone.

[JSchmidt]

I enjoy watching mine interact with a large dimidiochromis compressiceps; they never fight, but they occasionally will face off. The compressiceps will glare at the front, who then opens his ENORMOUS mouth, at which point the compressiceps usually finds something more interesting to do.

Jim

[dbcb314]

i had a friend who mixed these, but it was in a 150 gal tank

[jimbo]

Jschmidt...Wow, a predator with his natural prey in the same tank, does this work well or did some mbuna’s end up being diner or did he dispatch them just for lunch?
I’m not criticizing or something, I’m just curious.
Right now I’m behind the drawing board for building a new tank, hopefully it’ll be finished by the end of July if all goes smoothly.
Initially it would be something like 280 gallon but I (we) have found some extra space and it looks like it’s going to be 658 gallon (L.98.5 W.43.5 H.35.5) how is that for a change, should see my face. Anyway, the plan was to sell the mbuna’s and have some S/C Americans like the GT, JD and some others instead. But now, after reading you’re keeping Dimidiochromis with mbuna’s and Peacocks I’m having second thoughts about that. If there were any fish I really would like to have it would be the Dimidiochromis. So, am I facing a bankruptcy buying 8 dinners (=mbuna) every week for “His Majesty”?

Jimmy

[JSchmidt]

I wish that darn dimidiochromis would do some predation. I also have a Nimbochromis livingstonii that isn't much interested in hunting for his meals, either. I added both to the tank to help curb the population of Ps. lombardoi, who are breeding like mad in the tank. It's a big tank (a 180) with LOTS of rockwork, and it's just about impossible to catch any of the kennyi fry without emptying the tank (a daylong chore, at least). I had hoped the compressiceps and the livingstonii would predate on the fry some, but they don't seem to be very invested. What started out as a trio of lombardoi is now more than 20 (and I'm sure there are more that I can't see at the moment).

I wish I could get those guys to eat some fry. They just don't do it, as far as I can tell.

Jim

[oscarlvr]

i keep yellow labs with my frontosa colony, all do fine


Robert