New To Cichlids

[Josiah]

Okay I have just gotten interested in Cichlids and know more about SA and CA then I do african. So I need alittle help with a couple of fish one I got a couple of days ago the other I haven't gotten yet. I have a 55G with young P. Socolofi, yellow labs un ID'd, un ID'd. I will get the pics up of my un ID'd as soon as possible. But my first question, would a Red Empress be ok in a 55G? I know they get to be around 6 in.

PS: Most of the fish I have gotten all came from the same tank of varied cichlids, the only reason I need help with the ID of two is because the lady who knows everything about the cichlids had the day off.

 

[brewyn]

hello and welcome to malawis. I would not advise putting the red empress in a 55 gallon tank with your mbuna, a bigger tank with more open swimming space would be fine. pluss, are you aware that the empress have a totaly different diet to your mbuna? here is a link which I think you may enjoy reading, it will help you understand the different malawis and there habbits. enjoy

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/haps_vs_mbuna.php.

 

[Josiah]

Okay thank you. Is there anything you would reccomend for an eye catcher? I know it's hard to reccomend something until I get the names of my other 2 fish. I got a pic of my big guy as I like to call him, because he's my biggest fish, but I need to get it up on here. I can attempt to describe him, he has a similar body shape to the red empress, with smaller/shorter fins, and has yellows fins and the rest of his body is a really dark grayish brown almost black. Yet again I know it's hard to make an ID on him without a pic I'm working on it.

 

[KimA]

Hi,

Also check out the UK forum http/www.malawikeepers.com

 

[brewyn]

thats a good website you have suggested there kim, I to am a member of it, like this site theres some very knowlegable people, I got some of my fish from wymcot, who is himself a great guy. the only downfall, is that I found that you had to be main stream to get your questions answered, they tend to foreget to look at the begginers section.

with regards to the diet of these fish, here is another link, I stumled across this one last night!

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/compatibility.php