bottom dweller with aggressive cichlids

[HiImSean]

im fixing to get my fish for my 55g tank. im planning on 2 salvini. could i add some sort of bottom dweller? i'd be too afraid to get cories and im not a big fan of plecos. would a rapheal cat work?

 

[toehead11183]

how bout some big clown loaches, a botia modesta, or some small catfish like the sun catfish.

 

[JD_MAN]

I liked to use a pictus cat or some type of synodontis when I was keeping SA/CA cichlids.

 

[killerfish]

not much if they breed they can be very aggressive when breeding but try pictus, rapheal, or a syno

 

[Lupin]

I would never recommend clown loaches to be kept with aggressive cichlids. Yasuhikotakia modesta and loaches of Syncrossus genus perhaps will do better.

My other suggestions are doradids, synos and plecos.

 

[KurseD]

doradids would be good

 

[KaraJo]

I had my raphael in with my cichlids and they never bothered him. I gave him a place to hide anyway though...he is seldom seen. I have a chocolate pleco in with them also and they don't bother him at all either.

 

[Skoomakilla]

Pictus does seem like a good choice.. a raphael could work and it is true.. you might never see it, the raphael

 

[mssassysan2000]

Maybe some CL's I have bumble bee's in with my african's they stay hidden most of the time but they're getting along fine.

 

[ewurm]

how bout some big clown loaches, a botia modesta, or some small catfish like the sun catfish.

I had a modesta kick a Salvini out of his cave once. Awesome tough loach.