My husband and I are moving out of the Houston area and are putting our condo up for sale. We're taking down our aquariums to make the place look bigger but we're leaving one 10G up because I don't want to lose all my plants and we've decided to make our 58G tall tank into a Lake Malawi tank. We figure we've been wanting one for awhile and all their bright colors will make potential buyers remember our condo. We're putting all our other tanks in storage-I sure will miss them!
We want to overstock the tank and have lots of movement. Once we sell the condo I can weed out some of the fish and just take our favorites. I know I want some yellow labs and one or more of those bright blue fish that Fish Gallery always puts in their display tanks. Does anyone know what those are called? I'm also interested in the black one with the white stripe right behind it's head-some kind of tropheus I think. It's the one that is black with white speckles as a baby. Can these go together?
Does anyone know of a good reference to which fish can be housed together? I don't want any hybrids so I need to know which fish not to mix. Also, I'd like to put a few male peacocks in there. Are they too docile to mix with the mbunas? I like the auratus, johanni, zebras, but I'd rather have the others I've mentioned if the mbunas are too aggressive.
Finally, I have a pictus cat that is about 4 inches long, can he live with the cichlids? I also have a 1 1/2 inch rubber pleco, can he survive with them? Are there any non-cichlids that I can put in with them (like tiger barbs, etc) that would add interest to the tank or should I just stick with these guys?
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
We want to overstock the tank and have lots of movement. Once we sell the condo I can weed out some of the fish and just take our favorites. I know I want some yellow labs and one or more of those bright blue fish that Fish Gallery always puts in their display tanks. Does anyone know what those are called? I'm also interested in the black one with the white stripe right behind it's head-some kind of tropheus I think. It's the one that is black with white speckles as a baby. Can these go together?
Does anyone know of a good reference to which fish can be housed together? I don't want any hybrids so I need to know which fish not to mix. Also, I'd like to put a few male peacocks in there. Are they too docile to mix with the mbunas? I like the auratus, johanni, zebras, but I'd rather have the others I've mentioned if the mbunas are too aggressive.
Finally, I have a pictus cat that is about 4 inches long, can he live with the cichlids? I also have a 1 1/2 inch rubber pleco, can he survive with them? Are there any non-cichlids that I can put in with them (like tiger barbs, etc) that would add interest to the tank or should I just stick with these guys?
All comments and suggestions are welcome!
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