Keyhole Question

[blueline-uk]

I have a small Keyhole Cichlid, whats the maximum size it will grow as I have heard varying sizes??? The pet store said it will max at 6cm, is this true? I'll soon be getting another tank for xmas which is bigger for when it develops anyway so I aren't too worried but would still like to know.

 

[Davo86]

I would say they can get to a total size of upto 5", my pair are both currently just under 3" and i have had them for about 8 months (they were about half an inch when i got them)

 

[vancouver]

Biggest I've seen was about 4''

 

[Waterbox]

yeah 4"-5". They also grow really slow!

 

[pandacichlid]

12cm I think I have a pair and they're about 3'' maybe. I did have a cockatoo with them, but he started bullying the keyholes I soon removed the cockatoo tho'
I've also heard that if you have a pair of keyholes and one dies then the other can refuse to eat and eventually die This one keyhole in my lfs was kept with discus and it actually thought it was a discus and sholed along with the other discus

cheers!

 

[blueline-uk]

12cm I think I have a pair and they're about 3'' maybe. I did have a cockatoo with them, but he started bullying the keyholes I soon removed the cockatoo tho'
I've also heard that if you have a pair of keyholes and one dies then the other can refuse to eat and eventually die This one keyhole in my lfs was kept with discus and it actually thought it was a discus and sholed along with the other discus

cheers!

thats twice as big as what I was told when I bought it from Pets at Home!!! my new tank is gonna be 70 litres will this be big enough?

 

[pandacichlid]

12cm I think I have a pair and they're about 3'' maybe. I did have a cockatoo with them, but he started bullying the keyholes I soon removed the cockatoo tho'
I've also heard that if you have a pair of keyholes and one dies then the other can refuse to eat and eventually die This one keyhole in my lfs was kept with discus and it actually thought it was a discus and sholed along with the other discus

cheers!

thats twice as big as what I was told when I bought it from Pets at Home!!! my new tank is gonna be 70 litres will this be big enough?

sorry I haven't replied sooner! Pets at home give lots of people wrong advice; they even keep butterfly ram cichlids with malawis. Well, recently I bought a 24 gallon tank nano for our new marine set up and that's 100litres so I wouldn't recommend it, but it begin with if they're small enough and you provide lots of plants and places to explore then it should be fine. Don't over stock the tank and you could keep them in there all their lives perhaps. I keep mine in a three foot tank

cheers

 

[pandacichlid]

Maybe 70litres is too small for keyholes! Cus looking at my 24gal nano it wouldn't suit keyholes to be honest