Which one is the least aggressive

[efors]

Hi, friends!
I would like to see your opinions here. Please, choose only one species; according to your experiences.

[mostlycichlids]

From my experience with the ones I have kept Pseudotropheus socolofi.

[Coler]

From my experience of all those, albeit in an all male tank, most certainly the albino socolofi. However I wouldn't necessarily put the blue socolofi into the same bracket.

[ibr3ak]

I've had all of those species at one time or another, albino socolofi was by far the least aggressive, in fact way too mellow to hang on his own among other mbuna (but as Coler mentioned the blue socolofi was by far the most aggressive, had to be taken out, because he took over half the tank and the whole pile of rocks along with its terrotories).

I've voted for the afra, even though it's a little more aggressive than an albino socolofi, it both can stand his own with other mbuna and it's mellow enough to even go into a peacock tank. My adult afra along with a lab is in the peacock tank right now and I see absolutely 0 aggression from him.

[JL15219]

I chose the Pseudotropheus socolofi (albino morph, Snow white) I have two in my tank and they never seem to bother anybody..I also have 2 different types of Cynotilapia afra four in total and they seem to chase each other and other fish more often nothing to bad though.

[Pittbull]

my opinion is the socolofi as well..

[efors]

my opinion is the socolofi as well..

Hello, pittbull!
Any second pick?

[Pittbull]

hey buddy my next opinion would be the metriaclima man those melanochromis sp. are just plain nasty critters and the afra well their teeth say it best.

[efors]

Hey, thanks for your opinions; pitt!!!

[Pittbull]

no problem buddy..

[DeputyChiefJR]

I also went with the Cynos. The albinos are always a hit or miss if they'll survive due to frailty. This being said I've seen any mbuna get real tough and take out any other if they put their mind to it.

[efors]

Hi!
Well, this poll was very interesting to me. The reason for posting it is that actually I have 4 mbuna species in my tank (see My Tank Setup), but the rusty (I. sprengerae) group has decreased in number more than the other 3 groups because the juvies of this species arrived smaller in size and had adaptation problems. So if this continues, I see the possibility of having to replace in the future the rusty group for another group of preferably bluish mbunas. In this poll, I chose 3 bluish species that are frequently available to me and I wanted to know your opinions about their aggressiveness to compare them with what I think is my less docile species: Ps. socolofi (albino morph). Then, I think that in the near future, I will post another poll to see what bluish species do you think can get along better with my tank's mbuna species.
For now, thanks a lot for your votes and replies to this thread!!!:dance:

[Pittbull]

cool deal efors thats the right thing to do is always ask questions and do your research on what tankmates and their compatibility would be before you go out and do it and realize you made a mistake, many props to you my friend, take care..