I started to stock my african tank. I only picked two fish so far, ob peacock(m) and red peacock(m). Iknow I need to add females as well. I want to add more color, Electric blues or some yellow. Anyhoo I'm open to any suggestions. Please include common names if poss. I do plan to overstock slightly and I have plent of filtration(sump). Thanks Harley...Also looking for good source of african cichlids in Illinois West suburbs of Chicago.
75G malawi tankmates
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Electric Blue Haps are more aggressive than the avg malawi so I would stay away from those with what you already have. You may have luck if you got it very young.
mostlycichlids
Cichlid Specialist
You could do some electric yellows or some blue peacocks although the females are more brown or some yellow peacocks or kenyi the females are blue and the males are yellow or maybe some ice blue zebras or maybe socofoli. The kenyi are pretty agressive but I think it would work in a 75 gallon if you are planning to overstock.
I have:55 gallon
3 Ice blue Zebras 1 albino
3 Yellow Labs
2 Kenyi's 1male 1 female
1 socolofi sp.
5 synodontis catfish
Just remember to mix 1 male to several females 3 or more.
you could put up to 30 indivisuals from 5 different genuses in that size tank.
you have one genus in the peacocks
you could do 2-3 from the psedotropheus
and 2-3 from the malandia etc you grt my point.
I have:55 gallon
3 Ice blue Zebras 1 albino
3 Yellow Labs
2 Kenyi's 1male 1 female
1 socolofi sp.
5 synodontis catfish
Just remember to mix 1 male to several females 3 or more.
you could put up to 30 indivisuals from 5 different genuses in that size tank.
you have one genus in the peacocks
you could do 2-3 from the psedotropheus
and 2-3 from the malandia etc you grt my point.
Im open to mbunas, however I like the peacocks the most I think. What would you have suggested...wobble said:
Like akapaul said you can mix some mbuna and peacocks. Peacocks are less aggressive and more 'chill' I think. I tried to get the tamest of the mbuna and its worked out great so far, no issues. I went with all males to get the colors without the competition for females or breeding, although peacocks do present full colors when females are present and/or spawning, hence the name. The colors in my tank are fine though, no problems here.
techrescue911 said:
If you like the peacocks better, than stick with what you like. There are many beautiful peacocks out there. However, I don't know much about them. Maybe some peacock guru's could chime in for help in this area.
As stated above, the mbuna tend to be more aggressive and more active than the peacocks. I have seen many mixed malawi tanks that looked great. The peacocks tend to stay toward the top half of the tank, while the mbuna stay in the lower half. It helps fill-out the tank.
Since you are open to suggestions, here's some of my fav mbuna:
Labidochromis caeruleus, or yellow labs (yellow color)
Metriaclima estherae, or red zebras (orange color)
demasoni (black/blue color)
Pseudotropheus saulosi (males-black/blue color, females-yellowish orange color)
Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos, or maingano (black/blue color)
Pseudotropheus socolofi, or powder blue cichlid (powder blue color)
mostlycichlids
Cichlid Specialist
If it is Peacocks you want like I said before there are lots of variations of peacocks red peacocks blue peacocks yellow peacocks albino peacocks you could do an all peacock tank with 2-3 different variations of each. You could even throw a couple electric yellows or some socofoli in there.