Hi All
I am a first timer to the forum and I am looking for some advice and suggestions. My partner and I are embarking on setting up our first Chichlid tank. We are starting from the begining. We used to keep quite a succeful f/w community tank till a batch of badly infected neons wiped out most of our mature stock. Fault on both parties I guess for not isolating them before introduction and also the seller for having bad fish. Anyway after much thinking we decided to go at it from scratch and thought it would be a good idea to maybe give Cichlids a go. We have just set the tank up which is sized as follows
36*18*12 roughly taking 25 uk gallons
Not the biggest tank in the world for keeping fish but it was just a small commuinty tank before.
We have kitted it out with natural peeble gravel around and 1 1/2 " deep as we have read these fish like to dig and also paid around £45.00 around $70.00 for a good natural looking rock formation. I don't think we are going to go down the route of adding any plants fake or natural. We have a Intepret 3 cannister filter which is a good powerful model sold over here in the UK and a sufficient heater for those cold winter nights.
At present the tank is going through its two week cycle so this give us plenty of time to research which type of fish we would like to see in the set up.
As I understand Cichlids can grow quite large so we do not have any illusions of a large number of fish we thought maybe 5 - 6 at the most.
I was hoping for some suggestions as to which family of cichlid to target for ease of keeping and availabilty and also who would live together quarellsome free. We dont realyy want to go down the route of breeding them either as we have no where to store them even if we were that lucky, they will be for display purposes only so a good mix of colour would be nice
As we have stated even though we are not beginners at keeping fish we are also no experts either so simple suggestions and advice is more than welcome
Thanks in advance
I am a first timer to the forum and I am looking for some advice and suggestions. My partner and I are embarking on setting up our first Chichlid tank. We are starting from the begining. We used to keep quite a succeful f/w community tank till a batch of badly infected neons wiped out most of our mature stock. Fault on both parties I guess for not isolating them before introduction and also the seller for having bad fish. Anyway after much thinking we decided to go at it from scratch and thought it would be a good idea to maybe give Cichlids a go. We have just set the tank up which is sized as follows
36*18*12 roughly taking 25 uk gallons
Not the biggest tank in the world for keeping fish but it was just a small commuinty tank before.
We have kitted it out with natural peeble gravel around and 1 1/2 " deep as we have read these fish like to dig and also paid around £45.00 around $70.00 for a good natural looking rock formation. I don't think we are going to go down the route of adding any plants fake or natural. We have a Intepret 3 cannister filter which is a good powerful model sold over here in the UK and a sufficient heater for those cold winter nights.
At present the tank is going through its two week cycle so this give us plenty of time to research which type of fish we would like to see in the set up.
As I understand Cichlids can grow quite large so we do not have any illusions of a large number of fish we thought maybe 5 - 6 at the most.
I was hoping for some suggestions as to which family of cichlid to target for ease of keeping and availabilty and also who would live together quarellsome free. We dont realyy want to go down the route of breeding them either as we have no where to store them even if we were that lucky, they will be for display purposes only so a good mix of colour would be nice
As we have stated even though we are not beginners at keeping fish we are also no experts either so simple suggestions and advice is more than welcome
Thanks in advance