Convicts punking my chocolate!
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how many would you suggest? buddy up there proposed 5 at most. Also doing some more reading/RESEARCHING and others are saying 4 to 6 would be fine as well. But again, cant trust everything you read on the net :/
http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10tetra_diamond.htm
http://www.elmersaquarium.com/10tetra_diamond.htm
buddy up there? up where?
The BARE MINIMUM for a school is usually considered 6, but 9-12 is better. (If the tank has space!) I have had schooling fish on groups as small as 8 and as large as 40, the difference in behavior is night and day. I currently have a school of 30 giant danios and 12 regular danios in a tank. While my numbers are perhaps a little high for most, I also know how big the schools of these fish are in the wild. And 40 isn't big enough. My goal as a fish keeper is to keep the conditions as close to natural as possible so that I can see behaviors that are healthy and natural. For that to happen with schooling fish, you need to have a school.
The BARE MINIMUM for a school is usually considered 6, but 9-12 is better. (If the tank has space!) I have had schooling fish on groups as small as 8 and as large as 40, the difference in behavior is night and day. I currently have a school of 30 giant danios and 12 regular danios in a tank. While my numbers are perhaps a little high for most, I also know how big the schools of these fish are in the wild. And 40 isn't big enough. My goal as a fish keeper is to keep the conditions as close to natural as possible so that I can see behaviors that are healthy and natural. For that to happen with schooling fish, you need to have a school.
Note my statement "If the tank has space". Your tank doesn't really have much space even for the main occupant, but yet you feel the need to add more fish.
If you lack the space to properly house the fish, than don't house the fish. YOu lack the space for a proper school.
If you lack the space to properly house the fish, than don't house the fish. YOu lack the space for a proper school.
More research: http://www.sydneycichlid.com/chocolate-cichlid.htm , I meet the mimimum space needed easily. I only have one choc, not a pair as his standards are based on.
I am not trying to be a jerk, but getting opinions from more than one site is research.....
I do appreciate your advice, but you seem a rather hostile individual.
I am not trying to be a jerk, but getting opinions from more than one site is research.....
I do appreciate your advice, but you seem a rather hostile individual.
My chocolate cichlid is doing a complete 180! Hes eating, happy, and not hiding anymore! It seems sunshinehippies advice of adding a few tetras to the tank with him helped.
On a different note, one of my marineland penguin 350 biowheel filters crapped out on me. Now Its just one penguin 350 for the whole tank.
I was thinking maybe a small submersible corner filter or something?
On a different note, one of my marineland penguin 350 biowheel filters crapped out on me. Now Its just one penguin 350 for the whole tank.
I was thinking maybe a small submersible corner filter or something?
Sure you cankdrun76;3603292; said:
rainbows would be good, geo's might not. A single convict would proabaly work too.FishDorkMike;3603675; said:
agreedFishDorkMike;3606300; said:
I'd go with aquaclear 110 over the penguin. No cartridges, betterflow, easier maintenance. In side by side tanks (at my house) the AC110 had much better bio filtration than the penguin. The penguin is now gone.FishDorkMike;3611105; said:
I may be hostile, but at least I don't make embarrassing mistakes when I point things out.
This quote is off of the page you linked to. "Having kept a number of chocolate cichlids I can happily recommend this cichlid to anyone who is interested in keeping a 4×18x18 tank with something quite different."
You said your tank was only a 60 gallon. I guess you don't have enough space after all, at least not according to the site you are choosing to believe.
Looking around on the internet and taking all that is seen into consideration is a good plan. Looking for a plan that fits yours, might not be the best idea.
Here's another recommendation of the same size as your link.
75 gallons http://www.aquariumlife.net/profiles/south-american-cichlid/chocolate-cichlid/100154.asp
There are many other sites that recommend only a 55 gallon tank. The real problem with them is that the tank is only 12" front to back and a chocolate cichlid is 12" long. Bad plan. The generic plan for a fish tank is for it to be 4 times as long as the adult size of your fish, so in this case 4', and 1.5 times as wide as your your fish is long at its adult size, again in this case 18" wide.
If your tank meets those requirements and only holds 60 gallons of water it must be only 16" deep, apparently either your tank is NOT big enough, or is a custom built tank with really strange dimensions. I love the fact that the very web site you have chose to "back up your argument" proves you incorrect.
This quote is off of the page you linked to. "Having kept a number of chocolate cichlids I can happily recommend this cichlid to anyone who is interested in keeping a 4×18x18 tank with something quite different."
You said your tank was only a 60 gallon. I guess you don't have enough space after all, at least not according to the site you are choosing to believe.
Looking around on the internet and taking all that is seen into consideration is a good plan. Looking for a plan that fits yours, might not be the best idea.
Here's another recommendation of the same size as your link.
75 gallons http://www.aquariumlife.net/profiles/south-american-cichlid/chocolate-cichlid/100154.asp
There are many other sites that recommend only a 55 gallon tank. The real problem with them is that the tank is only 12" front to back and a chocolate cichlid is 12" long. Bad plan. The generic plan for a fish tank is for it to be 4 times as long as the adult size of your fish, so in this case 4', and 1.5 times as wide as your your fish is long at its adult size, again in this case 18" wide.
If your tank meets those requirements and only holds 60 gallons of water it must be only 16" deep, apparently either your tank is NOT big enough, or is a custom built tank with really strange dimensions. I love the fact that the very web site you have chose to "back up your argument" proves you incorrect.
kdrun76;3613005; said:
Notice I said that his tank requirements were for a PAIR ....I only have ONE...thats half of a PAIR...incase you're mathmatically impaired. Troll.
