Aggressive malawi tank?

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Jack Dempsey
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I was thinking of setting up a second malawi mbuna tank because I love my first one so much just with differnt fish. I was looking through the library and I saw the first mbuna I ever took intrest in... Kenyi. I was thinking about keeping them because of thier color, aggression, and size. But I have never seen(or seen very little) people keep kenyi or auratus intentionally meaning usually its just a begginner who dosen't know what thier doing. This time I wanted to pick fish that are Dimorphic because I am considring actually keeping the fry and it makes things easier. Does anyone think I can keep them in a 55 gallon tank? If not them one of the other aggressive species like auratus and chipokae? I planned to keep the ratios 1m 4-5f. Could I maybe do two species? Im also pondering msobo but hier not as aggressive but they look good and I might be able to keep more than one male in a 55.

PS: I will be ordering from livefishdirect.com so I will actually order the correct ratios.
 
Well being dimorphic will not affect the fry. The issue would be the hybridization of the mbuna.

If you were going to setup another 55 I would stay away from any species that look too much a like. If you want Kenyi, you could do a species only tank.
 
mike dunagan;3361253; said:
Well being dimorphic will not affect the fry. The issue would be the hybridization of the mbuna.

If you were going to setup another 55 I would stay away from any species that look too much a like. If you want Kenyi, you could do a species only tank.
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I meant it would help determine males from females easier and that what I was thinking just a species tank whith probably kenyi(1m 4-6F) I think that would look awesome! I am also pondering msobo they aren't super aggressive but I really like the males color maybe I will do a species tank for them.
 
mike dunagan;3361334; said:
Msobo species tank sounds so much better!
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Any particular reason you would do msobo?
 
I'd still be really interested to keep them because so few people ever do. But If I do descide to keep msobo what ratios would you reccomend?
 
I find msobo's to be very conspecific aggressive after they reach 3". 1 male and perhaps 5-6 females. They're ok with other mbuna species.

One of my female msobo's is one of the very few 'serial killers' I have (she single-handledly reduced my 2m/4f msobo group in a 75gal to 2m/2f and nearly killed the last remaining female). That, in turn, caused the males to go at it since the gender ratio got reversed (more males than females).

I recently reestablished another msobo group going (1m/6f) in another tank (the remnants of my first group have been separated in various tanks.
 
yeah I was reading up on them and they have very high conspecific(I think thats what it is) aggression. I also read that the females are usually the instigators. Oh and schnieder these are msobos. Males are blue,
females are yellow.

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