Cichlids in community tank

[firetank]

arkylady, my eventual set-up i hope is going to be a west african biotope--good choice!!

i did quite a lot of research on the web(not easy to find is it...)

ill dig out any links i can and post them on for you.

i currently have a pair of anomalochromis thomasi(african butterfly cichlid) in a 20g community tank, and they are an almost ignored, beautiful little cichlid

http://www.mongabay.com/fish/biotope.htm
http://www.geocities.com/bwe407/setups.html
http://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/hr/west_africa_cichlids.asp

ill find some more if i can......

http://blackwater.50megs.com/fishroom.htm
(this has good links on african riverine fish.

 

[O-man21]

those are great looking fish

 

[ArkyLady]

Awesome firetank! Yes the info is somewhat hard to find. I posted in the general freshwater section asking for any other input. I'm putting all the information I've been gathering into a website so maybe others will have a little easier time finding information than I have so far

I had found the mongobay link, but haven't seen the others yet. Going to check them out now. One other I had ran across that you didn't have listed yet was:

http://www.biotopeaquariums.co.uk/africa/niger_basin.htm

But some of those fish are NOT ok for a community tank according to info I have read (such as the puffer heh), so I've not used them in my list.

Keep in touch and let me know how it goes for you and what fish you end up having luck with and I'll do the same. I'm going to keep a detailed photo log of the whole process once I get started in the spring. So excited already hehe