what is a good price for malawi eye biters?
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A few "mights" and a couple of "wills" to consider:
A 75gal MIGHT work for just one d. compressiceps (though as previously mentioned a 6ft is optimal), 75gal too small for two of them, though. Here's a pic of one of my eye biters among some 5-inch blue dolphins (and the d. comp has grown since this pic):
They MIGHT get along ok with yellow labs.
The socolofi's MIGHT make it rough for them (it's ideal to add more aggressive species to an established tank than less aggressive one's, established socolofi's WILL have the upper hand).
Any fry and small (< 1.5") mbuna juvies WILL be at jeopardy when the eye biter grows larger (in the wild they eat mbuna fry and juvies for a living).
Nothing is really certain in this hobby so even if you did add 1m/1f, things MIGHT work out.
A 75gal MIGHT work for just one d. compressiceps (though as previously mentioned a 6ft is optimal), 75gal too small for two of them, though. Here's a pic of one of my eye biters among some 5-inch blue dolphins (and the d. comp has grown since this pic):
They MIGHT get along ok with yellow labs.
The socolofi's MIGHT make it rough for them (it's ideal to add more aggressive species to an established tank than less aggressive one's, established socolofi's WILL have the upper hand).
Any fry and small (< 1.5") mbuna juvies WILL be at jeopardy when the eye biter grows larger (in the wild they eat mbuna fry and juvies for a living).
Nothing is really certain in this hobby so even if you did add 1m/1f, things MIGHT work out.
A 75gal MIGHT work for just one d. compressiceps (though as previously mentioned a 6ft is optimal), 75gal too small for two of them, though. Here's a pic of one of my eye biters among some 5-inch blue dolphins (and the d. comp has grown since this pic):
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so i understand all of this, but a single d comp might do fine in a 75gal u say and IMO they are super beautiful fish. just to clear things up, i am NOT to have a breeding pair right? especially since i want to keep my other fish right? and ya, i DO want to keep my other fish.
aquarimnoob, Didn't you have another thread where you were talking about getting rid of your cichlids not even a week ago? lol
ya. that is still what i WANT to do, but i talked it over with my parents and they want me to keep my fish. =/ so i figured another african cichlid would be ok to keep with them.
alright. and how big is a full grown? and how fast do they grow? and will it get picked on by my socolofi?
