55 gallon and alot of cichlids?

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Just a quick Hi-jack of this thread.

Is that texas holey rock glued or just placed. I want to do that in my tank (but with black sand). btw, your tank looks great.

Thanks

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I too have found that overcrowding eases aggression. It's just more work on the part of the fishkeeper. 15 or so juvenile cichlids will work fine in a 55g as long as you are prepared to move them to a 90g or so in 4 - 6 months and a 250 - 300g (depending on species) after a year or so. More filtration than normal is definately required as are frequent water changes and tests for toxins. Also in my experience single specimens work better for South and Central Americans than groups. And I do believe that aquiring the fish as juvies and growing them up together makes them more tolerant of each other. But like others have said here a lot of people buy a handful of cichlids for their 29g and just never find the time or money to get that larger aquarium. As a result the fish suffer. I'm kinda lucky (I guess) because I also raise Anacondas and large Crocodilians so I have the facilities to deal with large amounts of filtered water.
 
Thanks for the replies, I plan on getting Calvus, yellow lab, leptosoma, bumblebee and either some peacocks or zebras. But mostly Calvus, like black, white and yellow.

Let me know what you think.
 
dynasty187 said:
Thanks for clearing that up.

I like convicts, Jacks, green terrors, Firemouths, Jurupari, Salvini.
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convicts are fun and breed like mad! I started a 29 gallon some years ago and got 2 convicts. I did not know if they were male or felame, after a few months wow my tank exploded with babies. I had to set up another tank for all the babies. I have a fire mouth now, he is the life of the tank. he eats out of my hand ( as well as all my fish) and follows me from all sides. he is a charmer :)
 
johnlarson66 said:
:OT:

Just a quick Hi-jack of this thread.

Is that texas holey rock glued or just placed. I want to do that in my tank (but with black sand). btw, your tank looks great.

Thanks

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Thanks. The texas holey rock is not glued, just placed. It makes cleaning a lot easier.
 
Alright just got back from the LFS and heres what I got. All juveniles.

3 red top
3 jewel
3 aurora pomba
3 black calvus
3 yellow lab
3 red peackcock
 
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Any pics? As I had a tankfull of Labs ages ago when African's just came available, before I came back to the hobby and went into CA's. There seem to be soo many different African species available now, you're spoilt for choice.
 
Naw I dont have any pics, I'll work on em though cuz I think everyone would really like this tank. It's an all natural looking habitat with nice colouration in the fish.
 
In general it is not advisable to stock Malawi and Tanganyikan fish together. With the exception of Tropheus sp. 'Tang' fish do not do better while overstocked. Most tangs are VERY aggressive and territorial. The altolamps are milder than most.

The calvus will eat all fry that may be born in your tank. If you're not concerened about that then things will probably be OK.
 
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