african mix with south american cichlid?

[Burto]

I've found that African river cichlids like kribensis, as opposed to lake cichlids, mix well with similarly sized South and Central American cichlids.

My experience with firemouths is that they can sort of be dicks. They'll claim whatever they can in terms of territory and hierarchy any way they can.
When I had my salvini in with my firemouth and blue acara, the firemouth spent most of its time hiding. The second I took the salvini out, the firemouth came out of hiding, picked a fight with the larger blue acara, won, and took over the tank.
A while later when my convict caught up in size and started asserting itself the firemouth allied itself with the blue acara, since the firemouth had trouble standing up to the convict by itself, but the convict would back down from the larger blue acara.
The firemouth and the blue acara still have their little alliance going, protecting their third of the tank from the convict.

 

[littlewolfpaw]

I've found that African river cichlids like kribensis, as opposed to lake cichlids, mix well with similarly sized South and Central American cichlids.

My experience with firemouths is that they can sort of be dicks. They'll claim whatever they can in terms of territory and hierarchy any way they can.
When I had my salvini in with my firemouth and blue acara, the firemouth spent most of its time hiding. The second I took the salvini out, the firemouth came out of hiding, picked a fight with the larger blue acara, won, and took over the tank.
A while later when my convict caught up in size and started asserting itself the firemouth allied itself with the blue acara, since the firemouth had trouble standing up to the convict by itself, but the convict would back down from the larger blue acara.
The firemouth and the blue acara still have their little alliance going, protecting their third of the tank from the convict.

Haha it sounds like a full fledged war! My fire mouth is super dominant over the convict but now the convict is starting to assurt itself more so now there fighting quiet a bit.

 

[cichlid2006]

Haha it sounds like a full fledged war! My fire mouth is super dominant over the convict but now the convict is starting to assurt itself more so now there fighting quiet a bit.

your firemouth is in for a world of hurt when that convict realises its potential. nothing but big blowhards, my FM is the same but the male krib chases him and he takes off. he asserts his dominance until a fish fights back or my midas swims by. its quite funny tbh.

 

[littlewolfpaw]

your firemouth is in for a world of hurt when that convict realises its potential. nothing but big blowhards, my FM is the same but the male krib chases him and he takes off. he asserts his dominance until a fish fights back or my midas swims by. its quite funny tbh.

Its entertaining to watch the two. The convict will be in his hole and the firemouth flares up and does this little wiggle and they start going mouth to mouth, back and forth, back and forth. its really funny, it looks like there kissing or something haha. The firemouth always backs off, he never wins.

 

[devder1]

kribs firemouths cons severums would be good