Frontosa & Yellow labs together (Yes or NO)????

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I have another post on here about moving fish from a 125 & 58 to a 220 gal, on how to move them all.
I have (12) Fronts and (10) Labs together in a 125 for 1 1/2 years now and they seem to be fine. Everything looks extremely healthy. Labs are constantly holding fry. Fronts have grown like crazy and colors and activity are great.
I feed them a variety (Spectrum pellets, cichlid flake, cichlid stick, frozen brine shrimp) and people think that it is retarded to keep these together. The labs a F1's and have unreal color. They look awesome in the tank and I hate to get rid of them just because people saw they shouldn't be in the same tank.
I thought about getting Leluepi instead, but it will be tough to find some large enough that my syn. cat will not eat.

What do you all think?
 
I've kept malawians and tanganyikans in the same tank and didn't have any problems. Their requirements are pretty compatible. If it were me, I'd keep them together.

Mark
 
I have had 2 yellow labs and a front together for a couple of years now with no problem.The labs chase each other around and leave everybody else alone.
 
Malawis and Tangs can be generally kept together, but when you break it down to individual species it doesn't always work.

I think I mentioned this to you before, but the fronts wont appreciate the "hyper activity" of the mbuna.

It may be okay if they were raised up together, but I doubt the fronts would ever attempt to breed with the labs around. That being said, I know people who keep Blue Dolphins (C. moori) with fronts and they do fine. The dolphins IMO are just as hyper as the labs.

;)
-Diana
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. While they are still smaller I sould probably switch out the labs for some luluepi & maybe some marlieri(sp).
 
You might want to rethink those two choices. Julies and leleupis stay pretty small compared to a frontosa. I think they'd wind up as food.

Mark
 
A couple of days ago I pulled out 1/2 of the yellow labs out of my tank.
I did have (10) labs, (4) huge males and (6) 2"-3" females.
I took out (2) males and (3) females.
Now the males aren't always chasing each other and freaking out the fronts.

So Now in my 220 Gallon I have.
(12) Frontosa (2"-5")
(5) Yellow labs
(10) Different kinds of calvis's & Compressiceps (2"-3")
(2) Syn. cats (1) 7" and (1) 3"
(1) 10" Sailfin pleco.

The labs are not so hyper now and it seems like a the fronts are doing better.

Are Fronts, calvis's, and compressiceps fine together from everyones experience. They seem fine together in my tank, but not sure how things will be when everything gets larger.
I will probably get rib of a few fish as things grow. I plan to take a few of the male fronts out and probably all the yellow labs (when the fronts are larger).
 
I have a front and yellow lab tank myself... I think they're really beautiful together! Yellows are my all time favorite fish and my hubby wanted the frontosas. I did some research and found that many people keep these two types of fish together.

I have one male lab with 4 females, so he's busy keeping track of his ladies. I currently have 17 burundi frontosa in there. They're all 2"-3" in size. I plan to grow them up a bit and then weed out the extra males and less attractive females to end up with a colony of 10 or so.

I also feed a wide variety of flake and frozen foods and everyone seems very happy!
 
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