Which Ones Are Peaceful

[tetraqueen]

Hi got advice on my tank and someone suggested chlichids to keep with catfish and loaches.

The informed me of agression so is this with them all or is there peaceful community ones as well.

Thanks the more opinions I get the better.

 

[tetraqueen]

Hi got advice on my tank and someone suggested chlichids to keep with catfish and loaches.

The informed me of agression so is this with them all or is there peaceful community ones as well.

Thanks the more opinions I get the better.

I have just read so I am now not thinking of them at all.
Botiine loaches hail from fast flowing rivers and streams in Asia. The currents they encounter are primarily uni-directional and rather forceful, and the water parameters are soft and acidic. In some locations, for example, in some parts of Kalimantan, Clown Loaches can even be found in areas of blackwater, where waters are extremely acidic and with an almost undetectable hardness.

Conversely, Africa’s Lake Malawi has a very hard, alkaline composition. The average pH value of the lake is around 8.3, with an average hardness reading of 18dH. Forcing fish, that have evolved over thousands of years of living in a certain set of conditions, to live in conditions considered to be at the ‘other end of the scale,’ can have drastic effects on their osmoregulatory systems
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[Aphotic Phoenix]

Most South American cichlids are soft water fish. What size tank do you have?

 

[england]

angel fish are great relitively peaceful fish as are keyholes...kribs....blue acaras....flag cichlids...festivums all quite small

 

[tetraqueen]

Rio 400

yes but loaches and cichlids do not mix so no point

 

[england]

so many people keep loaches with cichlids......i do...clowns/keyholes/angel

 

[invader]

You should be fine keeping loaches and NW cichlids together. As mentioned above, rams, apistos, smaller geophagus species, keyholes, kribs, and festivums (etc) would be fine.

 

[tetraqueen]

So as long as they are not African which is hard water the NW ones will be okay.

The other guy has also told me that they can be tank bred so may even be 'conditioned' for a better word to the aquarium.

I am now in a panic as he said they breed easy? I know they are not live bearers but are they like rabbitts like guppies. I also did not like guppies platties etc as they eat the fry.

That was one reason I bought a plec on its own it doesn't breed and also the bala sharks I would not be able to as they usually have hormone injections.

So these fish I will research but got to admit they look nice.


I'll choose and see what is available and then I'll get what I need to fill the tank.

Would I be better to give away all my fish and start again as the loaches too will get too big?

I am not into keeping them when older as I am told they get aggressive too. Seems strange they are usually so peaceful.