I have a 125 gal tank with a green terror cichlid and a convict cichlid. The fish are still small, i just got them a week ago. Is it safe to add an electric yellow cichlid?
2007-01-31 09:47:27 · 5 answers · asked by jamiesm2481 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
If you put large rocks / walls in the tank you can create territories for each fish to defend. Then they all feel like they have their place in the tank and they don't fight as much.
2007-01-31 10:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By electric yellow, i assume you mean yellow labs, or labidochromis caeruleus. Yellow labs are from Lake Malawi, Africa...your others are from south america. Most cichlid lovers would not mix the two. The temperments vary, some species being extremely aggressive. Yellow labs aren't an extremely aggressive species tho, but it's hard to say exactly how they will interact. I would go with something else.
2007-02-01 23:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by cichlid gal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe for a while, but the terror has a temperment like an oscar and may eventually become too territorial. Most people avoid mixing African and American cichlids because of the different water quality needs, hard water for the Africans and softer for the Americans, but you should be ok.
2007-01-31 18:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by bzzflygirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The yellow labs I've ever had have been the most passive fish in the tank. Convicts and Green Terrors will love the labs - for a snack. I wouldn't combine them.
2007-02-03 05:22:10 · answer #4 · answered by steve v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a mix of aficans with servums, they have done well, and play nicely together even though the servums are huge. when they are put together young they will learn to deal with each other but any thing can happen years from now
2007-01-31 20:29:18 · answer #5 · answered by y171bg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋