Electric Yellow Cichlid!

[grazychef]

Hi, Just have a few questions for all you cichlids lovers, I have three dwarf cichlids and two butterfly cichlids in my community
tank and they seem to be getting on fine with the other fish. However have seen the electric yellow cichlid and would like to put
it into my community tank, have been reading a few books and they say it is a very shy fish is this TRUE? Would i able to get away
with a male and female. I also have quite alot of plants in the tank and i belive cichlids not sure about the electric yellow like to destory these, again is this TURE?

If anyone can answer these questions it's you guys on this site,

Cheers Grazychef.

Ps I have a 74G tank and the community is as follows: Pleco, loaches,gouramis, danio's, barb's, rasboras harliquins,mollies,minow.

 

[dixaisy930]

The cichlid forum could probably give you a litte more detailed answer, but the answer is no. The electric yellows are not ok for community fish. I would also think it might have issues with the other cichlids you have in there now. The yellows are shy, by cichlid standards, not by community fish standards. Also, cichlids require different water parameters than most community fish.

 

[grazychef]

The cichlid forum could probably give you a litte more detailed answer, but the answer is no. The electric yellows are not ok for community fish. I would also think it might have issues with the other cichlids you have in there now. The yellows are shy, by cichlid standards, not by community fish standards. Also, cichlids require different water parameters than most community fish.

Ok thanks, have tried the cichild forum at the same time and the advice sadly is the same as yours. Basically they are not suitable
for the community i presently have. Maybe it's a tank for the furture.

 

[caboose_122]

its really not recomended to keep electric yellows in a community tank becuase they can become agressive, my friend has one in his tank and regrets he got it it may only be 2 inches long but it terrorizes he full grown green severum, he wishes the lfs would take it back but they wont, its really sad to see a full grown severum being attacked and scared of a little 2 inch fish, and this is in a 75 gallon tank. but them again, his tank is very overstocked with aggressive fish so, i guess it depends all fish have different personalities.