Need Some Species Advice

are you sure that rams are bottom dwellers?? and if you are, then what are some good mid-dwellers then?
 
It say's: If in a pair the two fish will swim together. A pair would be m/f not m/m, maybe in a large tank you could do 2 males, but from my personal experience do not put two males in one tank (smaller) they will eventually fight and hurt each other. I had two the blue and the orange one and they were great together and they did indeed swim together then they separated sides of the tank..still once in a while swimming together. I thought it was so cool the way they did this side by side, up and down and thought other people telling me they were aggressive toward each other were nuts "how could they be look how well they get along" then about 2 months down the road what I was warned about happend...they were swimming together and they started fighting twisting around each other the blue relentlesly chasing and nipping the other then there were chunks out of my orange..I went and bought a separate tank for him and tried to "nurse" him but it was too late I lost him 2 day's later :sad: So in my experience it is not a good idea, you do what you want but IMO it is bad new's.
The electric yellow does it look like this:http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/gstoffer/100_0535.jpg
That is my yellow lab.
 
yep to the lab, and what about a pearl gourami and a dwarf together, will that make a difference or will it be the same as two dwarfs?
 
That I have know personal experience to comment on, but I'm sure someone will know. I can go and look for some links for this info and post what I find.
 
boulderman1 said:
yep to the lab, and what about a pearl gourami and a dwarf together, will that make a difference or will it be the same as two dwarfs?
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No, that will be fine.
 
Thanks Dalto: I was thinking that was ok but didn't want to say that incase I was wrong..saved my alot of searching there ;) I thought other members had them in tanks together.
 
The lab will most likely eat all your tetras eventually. He'll just snack on them from time to time. Also IMO yellow labs are considered less aggressive cichlids but are still too aggressive for a community setup like yours.
 
ok the tank is cycled and without fish, i would like to know about the order of adding all these fish, is it best to put them in gradually? if so, in what order would be best, or should i put them all in at once, it might be hard to put them all in at once due to the small chance that the pet store will have all the species in at one time, should the cichlid go in last due to his aggression or what, help?!?!? no idea here

thanks
 
Before we can comment, how did you do your cycle? Fishy? Fishless? Jump start? Current ammonia, nitrite and nitrate readings? Your post suggests fishy, which means you need to add fish slowly. The bacteria you have established is only enough to handle the fish currently in there.
 
i did it fishy, with 5 red-eye tetras, they are still in the tank but when i start adding the fish, i want to swap them out for neons, i just basically wanted to know if one adding order or another would be more conducive to a more peaceful tank situation, i think i heard somewhere that adding more aggressive fish first is bad because they will set up territories before the other fish are added
 
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