Whats the best way to introduce new cichlids into an agressive community?
- Thread starter sg1
- Start date
Hmm, may continue to be a crapshoot with that stock list. I'm not keen on the american cichlids as to whether they're all compatible or not, but perhaps setting up another tank to separate the african cichlids from the ca/sa cichilds will translate into greater success for the newly added fish.
Hope you have a huge tank!
holy crap are these all in the same tank?
Indeed!
Hmm, may continue to be a crapshoot with that stock list. I'm not keen on the american cichlids as to whether they're all compatible or not, but perhaps setting up another tank to separate the african cichlids from the ca/sa cichilds will translate into greater success for the newly added fish.
Hope you have a huge tank!
Unless the africans are small enough for the americans to swallow whole, the americans generally ignore the africans. Too small to bother with them I guess. Usually when introducing new fish, its african on african violence that usually kills the new fish. Like I said unless I accidentally put something in there that will fit into the american's mouths which I dont make that mistake anymore. My tank is large too.
guessing this is the 125g one.. after looking at your pictures you will probably need more hiding spaces to reduce the aggression..
Good call, indeed it is a 125. Havent ruled out making additional caves, I love that volcanic rock stuff, its great for making hiding spots for cichlids.
Ive had a lot of these fish for a long time, really the devil and jag ignore the africans. Sometimes they will bowl through them to get to food faster but they really just ignore them. The Labeo is without question a more agressive fish than anything else on that list. That Labeo gets on the Jaguar like mike tyson on chris rock sometimes, kinda scary.
wow this site is so much different from mfk if you made this post on mfk members would be all over you!
I post pretty much the same stuff over there, its nice to get all the info I can on whatever questions I have. Most of the guys over there are pretty cool, Ive actually found in most cases the guys over there to be less judgemental on average than some of the people here. While I appreciate the back and fourth Ive had with the other members here in this thread, I have taken consiterably more jabs in the past over here for my choice of community than over at MFK as a whole.
Usually if I ask a question pertaining to mixing africans and americans over there they will advise me to the best of their ability while on this website Ill post the same thing the 1st reply I usually get is wtf are you thinking, all your fish are gonna be dead or something eluding to that only worded differently. On average of course. Again I appreciate the maturity thats being shown to me here on this thread.