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Phishwaters Small Fry Posts: 10 Kudos: 6 Votes: 0 Registered: 18-May-2004	I just got a 20 USG tank and am currently housing a single texas cihilid in it. The texas will be moving shortlyand I'd love to keep some africans, seeing as how I have a 20 pound bag of argonite laying around. Give me good ideas for a 20 gal. african cichilid tank please. 1 fish tanks are very nice!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Theresa_M Moderator Queen of Zoom Posts: 3649 Kudos: 4280 Votes: 790 Registered: 04-Jan-2004	First thoughts that come to mind are kribs or yellow labs. A shell-dweller tank would work as well but that would be a group of smaller fish rather than a one-fish tank like you mentioned. I'm not very familiar with Africans unfortunately. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
Fergus Mor McErc Hobbyist Posts: 112 Kudos: 401 Votes: 24 Registered: 10-Aug-2003	I keep a pair of Brichardi cichlids in a 20g. I built a limestone cave and a put couple of plants in there. They've been in there for about a year now and seem happy as can be. Mine won't tolerate any tankmates, I tried with a yoyo loach (for snail control). It wasn't pretty. I had to rescue the loach after a few minutes in the tank. The brichardi went nuts. O Tempora O Mores
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
superlion Mega Fish Posts: 1246 Kudos: 673 Votes: 339 Registered: 27-Sep-2003	I second brichardis! They will set up a colony in your tank (as I have in my 20), and it's fascinating to watch them in there... ><>
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
just beginning Moderator Literature Nerd Posts: 1879 Kudos: 1380 Votes: 198 Registered: 17-Dec-2000	No malawians are suitable for 20 gallon tanks, including electric yellows. I'd be looking at shell-dwellers instead! I'm not sure about brichardis, I suspect that they too might need a larger tank. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03
inkodinkomalinko Fish Guru Posts: 2441 Kudos: 833 Registered: 18-Jan-2003	If you want tanganyikans, theres compressiceps, calvus, leleupi, brichardi, pulcher, helianthus, olivaceous, various shellies (multies, brevis, caudopunctatas sp?,etc) Kribs would work too, as suggested.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:03


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