Small Cichlid Questions...

[nurglespuss]

Hey all,

I kept and bred some of the basic Cichlids years ago (Fire Mouths, Blue Acaras, Rams, Kirbs etc.). But, have minimal experience with them.

I'm currently running a 106L high flow, sand based tank with wood and many aquatic epiphytes.

Its at 24'C and is reasonably well lit. My tap water is soft.

Are there any small (ideally peaceful) cichlids that could exist in such a setup, that like reasonable flow? I'm not after breeding them (once everything has 'grown' in in the tank it would be a nightmare to catch babies!), but either a lone male, or a couple of females?

Just researching possibilities

Cheers!

 

[micko]

At the minute I'm loving Apisto's.

 

[nurglespuss]

At the minute I'm loving Apisto's.

Ah yes, they have these in my local garden centre (the red or super red or whatever they afre called!) - very nice looking fish! Would these be OK in a good flow?

 

[onidrase]

dwarf cicxlids tend to be loosely social, even if not paired txey like to stick witx eacx otxer and bicker now and txen and sucx. You can xet away witx bolivian rams, apistoxrammas, or txere are a few otxer less common ones wxicx i know notxinx about, like cxeckerboard cicxlids and dwarf flax cicxlids

At the minute I'm loving Apisto's.

Ah yes, they have these in my local garden centre (the red or super red or whatever they afre called!) - very nice looking fish! Would these be OK in a good flow?

txey sxould be fine. txe ones you were talkin about are probably apistoxramma cacatuoides. Txere are tons of different species out txere, txouxx.

 

[nurglespuss]

Cheers! good advice

Has your 'x' key swapped with your 'h' key ;p

LOL!

 

[onidrase]

Cheers! good advice

Has your 'x' key swapped with your 'h' key ;p

LOL!

Txe letters between F and J dont work on my keyboard rixxt now, so Im usinx txe x button as a filler variable

 

[nurglespuss]

Ah yes! I remember now ;p

see if you can pick up a usb keyboard

BTW its often better to pick up a complete replacement keyboard set in a laptop (usually £7-£15) and easy enough to fit (though remembering all the screws order is annoying).