clown loach and cichlids

[mshill90]

I was planning on getting a group of frontosa but then got sidetracked by new world cichlids! The lone frontosa seems happy enough. Once the grammodes is out of qt it will be going in the 180g and i may get a couple more to go in the 125g

I would get him like 4 more buddies, and keep them in a different tank with their needed parameters. Their colors will look really good. I had 4 juvies in the SA community tank, and I just moved them with my small colony, and they look so much better, and are growing so much faster.

The fish in the tank you have them in now are much more active, and may stress out the front.

 

[felixxx]

ph here is high out the tap, but you're probably right about the stress. not sure about other parameters. Plenty of hiding places for him

 

[Allan01230]

Good luck on the patience waiting for the grammodes to grow out. They are sloooooooow growers to say the least. They are cool looking when adults though so I guess it is worth the wait.

 

[haynchinook334]

Why are you mixing your fish origins? IE: SA, and African...

Why do you mix yours?

75 is some community fish- eartheaters, clown loaches, red tail plecos, leaf fish..

The 125 has a jag, 3 senegal bichirs, an ornate bichir, a rtsn cat, and a rapheal striped cat.

 

[felixxx]

seems all my fish are slow growers! clown loach fronts and grammodes.

 

[haynchinook334]

seems all my fish are slow growers! clown loach fronts and grammodes.

Tis true dood. I don't know about gammodes, but I know clowns and fronts grow slow.

 

[mshill90]

Why do you mix yours?

None of my FRONTOSA are mixed. I keep my Adult frontosa colony together with 3 african synos, and I keep my juveniles with Calvus.

It was just a question no need to be rude.

As far as my community tank, things have since changed, and they are all at similar water parameters, so they can co habitate together. Fronts need a higher PH level to thrive.

And my 125 only has senegals, the RTtsn, and the Jag now.. All take the SAME water parameters.

And I don't know about your Fronts, but mine are not slow growers at all.

 

[haynchinook334]

None of mine are mixed. I keep my Adult frontosa colony together with 3 african synos, and I keep my juveniles with Calvus.

It was just a question no need to be rude.

Sorry if I came off rude.


That's good that your fronts are not slow growers. Are they wild? Captive bred? F1, F2 and so on. Two of my fronts were Wild caught. Slow growers to boot. My other fronts, I bought at a local fish shop. It grew faster then my wild caught ones.

I do agree on keeping fronts in a higher PH level if they are wild, But not from a pet shop that keeps there fronts with servums.

 

[mshill90]

Sorry if I came off rude.

It's cool. no hard feelings.

I used to be like this poster, and I mixed fish- but then when I stopped mixing them, their true self came out, and wow. It's amazing.

I think fronts look better when they are kept with their own species in their prefered water parameters- their colors seem to pop, and they are less skitsy..

 

[peewee]

cool bro!