Can chocolate cichlids be kept together?

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I doubt more than 4 would fit in the 120g lol

I did think that the 6-7" 'adults' Ira has sounded too small to be fully mature.

So much for that idea.

Maybe I'll go with super red severums again. Those looked cool as a group in this tank.
 
Chocolates get somthing like 13-14" at the largest I've ever seen them in a fish store...very high bodies when they mature. It probably takes a good 5-10 years though.

I thought that atabapo severum I gave you was pretty cool looking.

You could always spring for discus too bro, if you like color in the tank and want peaceful shoaling fish they're bar none the best of the best - plus you can keep somthing like bolivian rams as bottom dwellers for more action in the tank. :)
 
I thought about wild type discus like greens or heckel's, but they contrast too much with a certain fish I've got.

I'll pm you details when I get home. :)
 
personally, I wouldn't mix chocolates together unless it is a pair, I've always had them being downright nasty to other chocolates
 
toomanyfishes;2750567; said:
Are we talking about hypselacara temporalis or coryphaenoides?
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H. temporalis :)
 
dirtyblacksocks;2756940; said:
Same temprement as the T., just harder to find :)
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Yes I know I just picked up three, they are about 5". I have admired these for some time now and was very excited about finally being able to get some. I've kept a temporalis before and he was one of my very favorite. I just loved waching his colors develop and change, unfortunately I lost him to some unexplained plague that wiped out my entire tank:(. He was kept as a single specimen in a community of large fish. This time around i have a group of three, albiet they are a diiferent species altogether they do seem to have a pecking order amongst themselves and are not to concerned with tankmates. I've had them for about a week or 2 and they are very active and eating well, although they have developed the ick. They are covered with tiny white spots. I have raised the temp and added salt as I have done many times in the past with other fish, although the ick seems to be hangin on this time. Also in the past any other fish that has had the ick usually goes off thier food and becomes withdrawn. That doesn't seem to be happening with these guys, they carry on as if all is normal. Also, the other tank mates are doing well and have no trace of the ick or it's symptoms. Should I be concerned?
 
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