10 gallon cichlids

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Anything besides Apistos, Rams, and cons?

I have 3 extra 10 gallon tanks, and I would probably use one for the parents and the others for fry. I'll probably end up selling the babies or feeding them to bigger and better things.:FIREdevil:cheers:
 
Don't JD's get like, 8"?

I didn't really want to do kribs either because the sex of the babies is determined by the pH of the water.

Don't yellow labs need a larger tank? I thought Africans needed a lot of space. If not, it's an option. How do you tell the sexes apart? Don't males have "egg-spots" on the anal fin? If that's true, then all the ones at the pet store are males.

Sorry for being so picky. :)
 
How do you sex jewels? I've heard males and females are very similar, and I don't really want to grow 5 or 6 fish, because I don't really have the room for that.
 
Absolute Aquariums;1351996; said:
Blue Jack Dempsey, Jewel, or Yellow Labs. I know if you find a pair of blue JD's one inchers will go for about $10 and they don't get as big as their counterparts.
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Although debateable, EBJD's grow just as big as JD, or even BJD's.

Apart from small African Shelldwellers, no other african cichlid IMO should be confined to a tiny 10g tank.
 
Brichardi
 
Mystix212;1353082; said:
Although debateable, EBJD's grow just as big as JD, or even BJD's.

Apart from small African Shelldwellers, no other african cichlid IMO should be confined to a tiny 10g tank.
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I've personally seen an 8" EBJD, plus, it's too time consuming for me to breed those.

I agree with the African cichlid comment. IMO they need a 55g and should be crowded(to a point) to curb aggression.
 
My gf has 3 brichardi in a 10 gallon in her bedroom...aragonite substrate, base rock from the local saltwater store, and a 10k light...looks really nice. Mock Nano tank almost...
 
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