what fish can I safely keep with rainbow cichlids?

Question

The size of the tank is 36x18x15. I was thinking of keeping the rainbow cichlids with other none cichlids species.

Answer 1

Rainbow is a pretty small and mild tempered cichlid and should NOT be kept with many of those cichlids mentioned above, including: African Mouthbrooders, Convict , Festae , Green Terror , Jack Dempsey , Managuense Cichlid, Pike , Red Devil , Red Tilapia, and Texas.

In fact, it's best to keep them as the only cichlids in the tank, so that they don't have to spend their lives fighting over territory agains fish that will most likely be bigger and stronger then them.

Schooling fish that keep toward the mid and top of the water work well, like rainbow fish, hatchet fish, larger tetra's and rasbora's, silver dollars, etc. Bottom dwellers like loaches, catfish, and pleco's will work as well, but not too many.

Basically the tankmates need to be big enough not be taken for food (figure larger then an adult guppy) and should not be territorial (one type of territorial fish in a tank is plenty).

For exact species recommendations you would need to let us know the size of your tank.

Answer 2

(Fish should be of similar size.)
Barbs: Large Rosy Barb, Large Tiger Barb, Tinfoil Barb

Catfish: Channel Catfish, Plecostomus Catfish, Pimodella Catfish, Porthole Catfish

Cichlids: Blue Acara Cichlid, African Mouthbrooder, Convict Cichlid, Festae Cichlid, Firemouth Cichlid, Green Terror Cichlid, Jack Dempsey Cichlid, Manganese Cichlid, Pike Cichlid, Port Cichlid, Rainbow Cichlid, Red Devil Cichlid, Red Tilapia Cichlid, Salvani Cichlid, Sunray Cichlid, Texas Cichlid

Eels: Large Fire Eel

Knifefish: Large African Knifefish

Rainbowfish: Large Australian Rainbowfish

Sharks: Black Shark, Iridescent Shark, Red Tail Shark, Red Rainbow Shark

Other Fish: Large Chinese Algae Eater, Annostomus, Snakehead, Wolf fish, Abrimites Headstander, Pacu

Answer 3

Mine were in with clown loaches,silver sharks cat fish Siamese fighter 1 male 4 females.Also pearl Gourami my advice stay away from barbs has they tend to nip fins.I have now got a 5foot tank has my other fish grow out of the 3ft one.

Answer 4

Ghapy took the words right out of my mouth. Best to house them with more docile tank mates.

MM

Answer 5

i have a small jewel cichlid, and his in with a red tail shark, pearl gouramies cant spell that one, and blue ones to, cat fish and clown loaches , he did beat up my ghost knife !

Answer 6

its best to keep chichlids with chichlids as they are so aggressive i have parrott fish with mine some catfish and silver dollars

Answer 7

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