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i am getting a 6*2*2 and i was wodnering how many african cichlid i should put in there currently i have 21 in my 4ft which is bad i no but my other 3ft recently broke so thats why i currently have

3 electric yellows
2 haplichromis burtoni
2 trewavasae
2 jewels
2 peacocks
2 greyshaki (sorry about the spelling)
2 black with white stripes (not 5 bar or frontosa but when mature they have a red belly)
1 hongi
1 acei
1 aurora
1 random (lol)
2 others i forget

well thats my list there all pretty young so gettign them into the 6ft in a month so

i want to know how many more fish in that size range i can put into the 6*2*2 the tank will have many rock caves and good filtration and was wondering if a venustus would go in there

any replys will be greatly appreciated

- shannon

I'd say probably about 40 or so mbuna, with heaps of rocks. Larger groups are the best way to go. I'd be a little worried about the haps, peacocks and jewels in there, they aren't as aggressive as the mbuna and need more protein in their diet.

EDITED TO ADD: venustus aren't really a good idea, they get very large and are piscivores so could potentially eat smaller mbuna. Plus they have different dietary requirements to mbuna.

Last edited by just beginning at 22-Dec-2004 05:22

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"2 black with white stripes"

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Ft6hLU2EmEwJ:www.boksova.cz/INDEX_SOUBORY/Pages/afr_soubory/velke/315-4.gif

Does it look like that? Its a haplochromis (astatotilipia) latifasciata

I was wondering how your 2 peacocks get on together?

I have two in my 125g (UK) set up, one rules the tank & makes the other one stay behind 1 rock.

I have 4 males in the mix in my 75 and they get along fine. I had just two male peacocks alone(later transfered to the 75g) in my 29g before as juv and they fought non-stop. Definitely need enough tankmates to spread out aggression when mixing the males.

lol ones a juvi both 1 rules the tank except for the male trewavasae (hes the boss) and the other one rules the juvis in the tank they actually show no aggression toawrds each other. Thanks inkodinkomalinko thats what there are even though they are small at this stage they pack quite a punch lol. VENUSTUS YES/NO???

I say no to the Venustus as it will reach around 10" and would make quick work of the peacocks, hongi, labs, and acei. It's food is small fish. They can also be quite aggressive.

Well if you want to keep a tank with the same type of cichlids, then I disagree with the mixture of West Africans, and Rift Lake cichlids. As these have different water requirements. And they are technically from completely different places. They will do OK together, but it is the same as mixing SA with Lake Tanganyikans.

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