is anything possible?

[ryan]

i wondered if anyone could suggest an easy to breed peaceful cichlid for a community tank, ifo about them please

 

[juanveldez]

I can tell you pretty much all of the answers that you are going to get right now


rams

any of the apistogramma species complex

you may even see keyholes on that list as well

jewels might even make it to your list

hahahah smb I beat you for once

 

[AquaNut]

hahahah smb I beat you for once

LOL

He's getting his beauty sleep. :smb:

 

[juanveldez]

AN you had better wake him up it is like 1:40 pm there
and tell him that I told you to do it

and this is for the abba that I am jammin to right now

 

[AquaNut]

LMFAO!!! Oh juan, thanks for totally cracking me up at work.

"Because she's the dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17"

So yeah.. I'm at work.. all I can do is will him to wake up. lol WAKE UP JEFF!!!!! hehe

OMG that's creepy. It worked. lol

 

[smb]

*yawns and stretches* Someone call?

hahahah smb I beat you for once

LMAO!!! Yep, you did. Good choices but I wouldn't add the jewels if they are Hemichromis bimaculatus tho. Other than that I agree with my man juan.

and this is for the abba that I am jammin to right now

Man I LOVE that song too!

 

[Cian McLiam]

lol!!
Funny though nobody mentioned the best little breeder you can get, KRIBENSIS!!

Ken

 

[ryan]

lol!!
Funny though nobody mentioned the best little breeder you can get, KRIBENSIS!!

Ken

i heard these dig up plants and everything and may even kill other fish because they are so aggressive when breeding, after breeding do they calm down again?

 

[Cian McLiam]

here's a link to some info on the two points you mentioned : Kribs

They were my first breeding project and were not aggressive to the tetras I had as dither fish in the tank cos the kribs carve out their territory on the bottom of the tank.

Ken

 

[juanveldez]

I would have mentioned kribs too but there seems to be alot of confusion on this forum as to weither they are sa/ca or african (which they are african) and I personally don't like to mix it is bad enough that I need a pelco in my 75 I would much raither get rid of the two of them.

 

[Auratus]

Rams spawn really easily but getting the eggs to actually hatch is a different story. There are a few things that usually go wrong.

1: the other community fish eat the eggs

2: They get fungus from high P.H. or other un-perfect water conditions.

3: The eggs arent fertile and turn white. I noticed that male rams aren't very good at fertalizing eggs, especially when their young.

 

[Cian McLiam]

Sorry Juan is right, kribs are african, I came to this post through the 'view new topics' thingy so didnt realise it was new worlds you were looking for. On the other hand, Kribs are west africans and enjoy the same kind of water as a lot of new world fish and so make pretty good tankmates.

Ken