FishProfiles.com Message Forums

Well I want to find out if Electric Blues & Yellows can safely be kept in the same tank and still breed. I have had people tell me that they can, but i've also had people tell me that they can't.
I want to find out soon because i'm getting a 6ft tank of a friend and I've had my eye on those fish for sometime.

If anyone can tell me it will help out alot.

:Jeremy

if your tank is 6ft then yes. electric yellows only get to 10 cms where as there more aggressive electric blue get to about 16 cms the blues will be more aggressive and section fo a bit of the tank to themselves but i have kept them toether in a 3ft and everythign was fine

thank you for the help oscar man,

one more question, does anyone know how many Electric blues & Electric yellows can be kept in a 6ft tank.

:Jeremy

I think 8 each will be a good number, but it is possible to have more depending on how good your filtration system is

you cant keep them together electric yellow are mbunas who need more vegatables in their diet and electric blues or johannis are haps who need more protein in their diet. the blues need about a 75g tank. there are lots of different mbuna who are blue and are compatible with electric yellows.

How do their diets effect their compatibility.

:Jeremy

in the wild yellow labs or electric yellows eat mostly algae and some insects. while electric blues eat mostly fish and others things here is an article that explains it all
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/compatability.php
electric yellows are mbunas and electric blues are haps

Diet is not a factor here. Yes electric yellow is from the family of Mbuna but it is not a typical Mbuna since it eats in the wild mostly things that are alive ( L. caeruleus is an omnivore, feeding primarily upon insects, snails, and mollusks) therefor it should be fine to be housed with electric blues and any other fish from the Hap family.

haps don't like vegatable matter and mbuna need it to survive even though yellow labs are omnivores they still cant have as much protein as haps need to survive

True man in the wild... but these fish have not been pulled form the wild they have been breed in aquariums and they have adapted man. I have seen scat with live in non salt water environment and scat are salt water fish. I think they can be put together I would put 6 blues and 8 yellows

I'm agreeing with greenmonkey, diet does make a difference. An Mbuna eating to little plant matter will get bloat, and a hap eating too much plant matter will not grow. You can _NOT_ balance there diets adequately enough to have them both happy and healthy. True, an electric yellow does eat more protein then most other Mbunas but thats still _way_ less then a hap eats... There are very large, very imoportant nutritional variations between insects and inverts then whole life fish. It is possible however... but neither will live up to their full potential. You would also need a 6foot 125gallon aquarium... which is a bit more then I would spend just to house these two species.

But it says in the profiles that both the Electric Blue and the Electric Yellow are ominvore, it also says that both can be fed the same food (flakes).


If i'm wrong then can anyone suggest a diet that can be fed to both of them.

:Jeremy

My understanding is that electric yellows are the only mbuna that are really compatible with haps and peacocks. They can tolerate a higher-protein diet. They should still have some vegetable matter, but that won't hurt the blues to eat either.

My vote is that it's doable, but with NO other species of mbuna!

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

alright, Thankyou just beginning for answering the question that i posted.