Stocking Help !

[Confish]

ive been looking at this stocking in a rio 240

2 convicts (male and female)
1 jewel
blue crayfish
senegal birch
5 giant danios / 5 bosemani rainbow

but i was now thinking of having 3 female convicts and adding a firemouth too

3 convicts
1 jewel
1 firemouth
blue crayfish
senegal birch
5 giant danios / 5 bosemani rainbow

will be getting juveniles to help them all get along.

 

[Confish]

bump

 

[Bebobb]

Not sure, firemouths are very agressive. It is a 60 USG if I am correct, or around that mark. I would not do the rainbows because they do not like to be housed with agressive cichlids like convicts and firemoths. The do better with more placid cichlids such as severums and blue acaras. I am not sure if female convicts are as agressive as males are, but a lot of agression will be brought down without there being a male in the tank for them to breed with.

 

[Confish]

Not sure, firemouths are very agressive. It is a 60 USG if I am correct, or around that mark. I would not do the rainbows because they do not like to be housed with agressive cichlids like convicts and firemoths. The do better with more placid cichlids such as severums and blue acaras. I am not sure if female convicts are as agressive as males are, but a lot of agression will be brought down without there being a male in the tank for them to breed with.

ye its a 67 USG and what dither could i have instead then? but firemouths are usually the best cichlid to go with convicts being they have the same aggressive nature

 

[Bebobb]

Not sure, firemouths are very agressive. It is a 60 USG if I am correct, or around that mark. I would not do the rainbows because they do not like to be housed with agressive cichlids like convicts and firemoths. The do better with more placid cichlids such as severums and blue acaras. I am not sure if female convicts are as agressive as males are, but a lot of agression will be brought down without there being a male in the tank for them to breed with.

ye its a 67 USG and what dither could i have instead then? but firemouths are usually the best cichlid to go with convicts being they have the same aggressive nature

Giant danios would be fine for them. I did not mean that giant danios are' suitable, I meant that the rainbow fish aren't suitable.

 

[Confish]

Not sure, firemouths are very agressive. It is a 60 USG if I am correct, or around that mark. I would not do the rainbows because they do not like to be housed with agressive cichlids like convicts and firemoths. The do better with more placid cichlids such as severums and blue acaras. I am not sure if female convicts are as agressive as males are, but a lot of agression will be brought down without there being a male in the tank for them to breed with.

ye its a 67 USG and what dither could i have instead then? but firemouths are usually the best cichlid to go with convicts being they have the same aggressive nature

Giant danios would be fine for them. I did not mean that giant danios are' suitable, I meant that the rainbow fish aren't suitable.

is there nothing else as giant danios are dull

 

[Matt_northants]

My LFS keeps Swordtails as dithers in there CA cichlid show tank.

 

[Bebobb]

My LFS keeps Swordtails as dithers in there CA cichlid show tank.

This sounds fine to me. Of course my ears are untrained when it comes to this. But swordtails are quite fast and agile. I would not get males and females as they will breed and you will have no luck with saving the fry.

 

[Confish]

My LFS keeps Swordtails as dithers in there CA cichlid show tank.

This sounds fine to me. Of course my ears are untrained when it comes to this. But swordtails are quite fast and agile. I would not get males and females as they will breed and you will have no luck with saving the fry.

ye i might look into swordtails or what about green tiger barbs? and the cichlids can eat the fry

 

[Bebobb]

My LFS keeps Swordtails as dithers in there CA cichlid show tank.

This sounds fine to me. Of course my ears are untrained when it comes to this. But swordtails are quite fast and agile. I would not get males and females as they will breed and you will have no luck with saving the fry.

ye i might look into swordtails or what about green tiger barbs? and the cichlids can eat the fry

Yeah the cichlids would eat the fry. I does not sound bad to me, but if you want to save the fry, than this is not the tank to keep them in. I wouldn't mind the cichlids eating the , as it would just give them more nutrition. Not sure about the barbs. I don't think that they are as fast as giant danios or swordtails. That is one of the things that you look for in a good ditherfish.

 

[Confish]

My LFS keeps Swordtails as dithers in there CA cichlid show tank.

This sounds fine to me. Of course my ears are untrained when it comes to this. But swordtails are quite fast and agile. I would not get males and females as they will breed and you will have no luck with saving the fry.

ye i might look into swordtails or what about green tiger barbs? and the cichlids can eat the fry

Yeah the cichlids would eat the fry. I does not sound bad to me, but if you want to save the fry, than this is not the tank to keep them in. I wouldn't mind the cichlids eating the , as it would just give them more nutrition. Not sure about the barbs. I don't think that they are as fast as giant danios or swordtails. That is one of the things that you look for in a good ditherfish.

ye i know thats why i said they can eat the fry. yea ill probably go with the swordtails.