South American Cichlid Comunity

nickmcmechan

nickmcmechan

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Hi, I've just started cycling my new 180l tank.

I intend this tank to have Angels as my centerpiece and have a couple of small (1 1/2") in my 100l tank waiting to go in.

I'd like to make this a South American Cichlid Community and was looking for suggestions?

Would also like some interesting cats to go in there too...?
 
Do you want the cats to be from SA too? If so I wouldn't go with upside down cats. Corys??? I'd advise going to www.planetcatfish.com, good articles there. Also try some dwarf cichlids...apistos, rams...may be too much aggression in one tank around breeding time, but otherwise good...
 
I have a blue phantom pleco in w/ my severum, that's a beautiful, relatively small south american cat! I think I'd go w/ a couple really nice looking small plecos. I'm biased though since that's what I'm doing. lol

Kribs aren't SA, they're Africans, from the Niger River I think?
 
nickmcmechan said:
Yes, good, I like the upside down cats, thank you.
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They do not originate from SA though. Cories and plecs are your best candidates.
Thinking of SA fish only as well, yes, so like that idea...Rams, Kribs?
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Kribs are Africans. You are looking for rams, angelfish, discus and apistogrammas in this case. Adding some tetras will put a finishing touch to your tank although be careful when selecting them as your angels may just chow them down if they fit in their mouths.
 
Lupin said:
They do not originate from SA though. Cories and plecs are your best candidates.

Kribs are Africans. You are looking for rams, angelfish, discus and apistogrammas in this case. Adding some tetras will put a finishing touch to your tank although be careful when selecting them as your angels may just chow them down if they fit in their mouths.
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Not entirely true. If angels are raised with small fish, even neons or cardinals, from juvenile they won't eat them as adults. Adult angels, even if they were raised with neons or cardinals, when added to a tank with them will. It's the strangest thing, but I've done it over and over. And believe me when the latter happened, I was like what the heck and had to try raising them together again. Got the same result. No eating them when raised together.
 
i have to disagree, based on my own experience. some angels may be better behaved than others, and it may depend on exactly how young they have to be when introduced. when i added my quarter-sized angels to a 55g tank that has feeder guppies in it, they hunted down and chewed on every one of them within a few hours. they couldn't actually eat them because the guppies were too large, they just bit them all until they stopped moving. i figure the quarter-sized ones are still pretty young, but maybe your experience has been with smaller babies.
 
A few Festivums would look nice. Or how about a pair of Uaru Amphiacanthoides
 
wataugachicken said:
i have to disagree, based on my own experience. some angels may be better behaved than others, and it may depend on exactly how young they have to be when introduced. when i added my quarter-sized angels to a 55g tank that has feeder guppies in it, they hunted down and chewed on every one of them within a few hours. they couldn't actually eat them because the guppies were too large, they just bit them all until they stopped moving. i figure the quarter-sized ones are still pretty young, but maybe your experience has been with smaller babies.
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I have to agree.
I raise and breed angels.

I know that a lot of angels will have the hunter predator in them and will hunt and eat anything they can fit in their mouths.
adult cardinals are sometimes the exception to the rule and some times a nice tempered angel will live peacefully with neons..but it is hit and miss at best and if you ask me tetras are too expensive to feed to angels.

also i agree with the festivum(flag cichlid) they do well with angels as do bolivian rams
 
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