thinking of switching over from africans to americans..

[tommybhermitage]

Actually most stores have the same water quality, wild ones need different but if you get ones that have been breed over and over your fine


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[kavin2845]

Actually most stores have the same water quality, wild ones need different but if you get ones that have been breed over and over your fine


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So I guess you could mix


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[Squirtle919]

then you have diet issues different sizes and different aggression, sure it can be done but most the time it wont work well.

+ for the fish the OP wants his already pushing the limits of his 55g.

 

[cali~budfish]

Mix and match. Africans will stick to the bottom of the tank in caves and what not while the big boys cruise the mid section. Honestly if you want to keep Ca Sa cichlids you should get something a bit bigger than a 55.

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[kavin2845]

then you have diet issues different sizes and different aggression, sure it can be done but most the time it wont work well.

+ for the fish the OP wants his already pushing the limits of his 55g.

+1


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[tommybhermitage]

IMO if you only have a 55, I'd loose ALL Africans and do some fire mouths and cons. I think that would look pretty nice depending on how you set up the tank


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[livebearerfreak]

well keeping my africans, setting up another 55, already got to grow out: two chocolate cichlids ( about an inch ) two green severums ( about an inch ) growing out in my 12 eclipes for now. thats all ill be having in the 55.

 

[livebearerfreak]

so far the chocolates and severums are doing great!

 

[livebearerfreak]

OH and the tank will be getting daily water changes to

 

[Rafini]

Africans : more fish = less aggression, lots of movement and colour of all kinds
Americans: less fish = less aggression, a few large fish that can or can't have good colour.

I've kept both and the only downside to africans is more fish means that you have to spend more money stocking the tank. If money wasn't an option I would go africans every time. American cichlids are interesting and they have cool personalities but you always end up being flamed for having too small a tank or incompatible species. You will see guys with huge 200 gallon tanks with 1-3 fish in there. IF you want to constantly worry about your fish fighting or killing anything new that you had (I had that problem a lot) then I would go with the Americans. Like I said I have kept both, and cichlids in general for over 10 years and I prefere africans for the reasons stated.
Plus the south/central American cichlid keepers tend to be a lot less forgiving of mistakes