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Hello all.
I wonder if I can get some suggestions from you regarding some of the options I'm thinking about for my tank.
Tank is getting completely re-built and re-stocked. It is a fairly tall 1,100 liter tank, so I can take some fairly large fish. However, I don;t like agressive species, and I want to plan a fairly peaceful community tank.
The idea at the moment is:
6-8 medium to fairly large new world cichlids
1 large shoal of either Odessa barbs, Red line torpedo barbs or Congo tetra's ( all of which are fairly large fish ) shoal will be between 20-30 fish
1 group of Brochis Britskii catfish on the bottom ( Imagine a 4-5" cory ).
The question I have is "Which cichlids would you suggest"
Ideally, I would like a single species, although different colour morphs or sub species are fine. However, I guess I could have a few different species, with a pair of each, but would prefer not to.
Current thoughts are:
1) Discus, although they don't really "do" it for me, and I will be working away from home regulalrly in the week, so can only be certain of being able to do a single water change
2) Urau
3) Severum - like these a lot but have read they can be a bit grumpy, and best kept in pairs only
4) Blue Acra - Also like these a lot, but understand they can be a bit grumpy in groups
5) Festivals - love these fish, but wouldn't mind something a little bigger.
Any thoughts, comments etc on these choices, or any other options, would be very gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Steve
I wonder if I can get some suggestions from you regarding some of the options I'm thinking about for my tank.
Tank is getting completely re-built and re-stocked. It is a fairly tall 1,100 liter tank, so I can take some fairly large fish. However, I don;t like agressive species, and I want to plan a fairly peaceful community tank.
The idea at the moment is:
6-8 medium to fairly large new world cichlids
1 large shoal of either Odessa barbs, Red line torpedo barbs or Congo tetra's ( all of which are fairly large fish ) shoal will be between 20-30 fish
1 group of Brochis Britskii catfish on the bottom ( Imagine a 4-5" cory ).
The question I have is "Which cichlids would you suggest"
Ideally, I would like a single species, although different colour morphs or sub species are fine. However, I guess I could have a few different species, with a pair of each, but would prefer not to.
Current thoughts are:
1) Discus, although they don't really "do" it for me, and I will be working away from home regulalrly in the week, so can only be certain of being able to do a single water change
2) Urau
3) Severum - like these a lot but have read they can be a bit grumpy, and best kept in pairs only
4) Blue Acra - Also like these a lot, but understand they can be a bit grumpy in groups
5) Festivals - love these fish, but wouldn't mind something a little bigger.
Any thoughts, comments etc on these choices, or any other options, would be very gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Steve