Cichlid Tank. CA community.

[Eric A]

G'day guys. Happy new year...

I now have the 4' tank i've benn waiting on and now i'm thinking of stocking ideas. I'm am considering doing a small central american cichlid community. CA cichlids have always been a favourite so naturally .

I was thinking of 2 or 3 pairs of smaller central american cichlids, and a lone big fish to hopefully stop any potential agression.

The problem for the small cichlids are going to be finding them in Australia. I was thinking of any of these fish for the smaller cichlids. Firemouth, T.passionis, Nicaraguense, Sajica, or Cutteri.

For the bigger fish I was thinking of a single specimen of one of these species. Synspillum, EBJD, Salvini, Freddy, or (jag or mota).

Tell me please which will be the best 2 combos you can come up with. So I have some choices still.

 

[HerCrenVie]

Personally I would try 1 Firemouth pair, 1 Nicaraguense pair and a single Motaguense. These are all colour-motivated choices though. Or what about a single Synspilum pair? They are phenomenal as adults.

 

[Eric A]

That was the first 'rough idea' I came up with for this tank. And the good thing is, those, I know where to find. But I would like two choices Plz

 

[Lizardking]

1 pair of thorichtys maculipinnis ( ex T.ellioti )
1 pair of cryptoheros spilurus
1 pair of cryptoheros nanoluteus

a single Theraps Lengtinosus

 

[Eric A]

It would be hard find such fsih but would be a nice setup. Although I might change the T.ellioti for some T.passionis. Unless the setup you mentioned is a biotope? Then I would definantly try.

 

[bitteraspects]

unfortunately guapotes will outgrow that tank and eventually kill their tankmates, so i might skip them for your 4' comm.

 

[Eric A]

Okay. Thats fine. After all, it is a 'smaller' cichlids community.

 

[Eric A]

I have to admit I love the look of theraps lentiginosus. How big does it get?

Also, these fish will be with a pair of snakehead gudgeons as well, so they really need to be 15cm+

 

[Lizardking]

It would be hard find such fsih but would be a nice setup. Although I might change the T.ellioti for some T.passionis. Unless the setup you mentioned is a biotope? Then I would definantly try.

dont know if its biotopical correct. if you want more colours in the tank then you can skip the spilurus for multispinosas. they look incredible in breeding dresses and I guess they are more common. I suggest that you check NUTTYs tankthread for inspiration.

 

[Lizardking]

I have to admit I love the look of theraps lentiginosus. How big does it get?

Also, these fish will be with a pair of snakehead gudgeons as well, so they really need to be 15cm+

My sources says that they get to about 25 cm. what the tank size? 120 50 50 cm?