cichlids

[troublew/fish]

I am getting shell dwellers in a week the thing I need to know can a clown pleco live with tthem or should I put him in with my other fish? Also, the tank is 19 inches tall is there anything else I could put in the tank with them?

 

[wrs]

the hight has nothing at all to do with what fish you can put in there, unless its angel fish. How big is the tank, gallons and length. What shellies are they?

The clown pleco should go in a diffrent tank. they need to eat drift wood or bog wood and in a Tanganyikan tank driftwood is not recomended because it changes the Ph.

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

I am getting shell dwellers in a week the thing I need to know can a clown pleco live with tthem or should I put him in with my other fish? Also, the tank is 19 inches tall is there anything else I could put in the tank with them?

you could put cyprichromis cichlids in there if the tank is big enough, the shellies will inhabit only the bottom 3 inches or so so you would have a lot of empty space.
it really depends on the size of the tank, can you tell us what dimensions it is?

 

[freddyk]

Or if it's a small but tall tank you can go with other schoaling fish, anything not too delicate would work.

A piece of driftwood would make no difference in water already well buffered, as a Tanganyikan tank might be.

 

[troublew/fish]

My tank is 25 inches long 13 inches curved towards front half octagon and actually 21 inches tall. I would like something that would occupy some of the upper space if possible.

 

[sylvia]

Danios. Though if you live in a high pH, hard-water area, you could probably get absolutely any localy bred, relatively peaceful, upper-dwelling fish such as gouramies or hatchet fish as shellies rarely wander far from their shells and hardly ever go near the surface.

 

[freddyk]

Yup, and you can also consider some tougher tetra's, like Serpaes or Columbians. Since the shellies don't wander far, and don't consider open water shoaling fish threats, your options remain open.