Exactly Ash.
If you want different species, great, get them, but house them in seperate tanks.
My Malawi tank has been running as it is now for 3 years, and I havent had a single death in all that time.
Its well stocked, but not over, it has a good rate of filtration, which I put my success down to, I do 30% water changes a week, and feed a mix of shelled peas, cucumber, vegetable flakes, and a special frozen malawi food that contains a small amount of krill along with algaes, and also malawi cichlid pellets, obviously not all at once mind you ;-))
I feed every evening except sundays, and twice a week in the mornings too.
They currently live in a 6x2x2 tank, but Im thinking of expanding.....
If you want different species, great, get them, but house them in seperate tanks.
My Malawi tank has been running as it is now for 3 years, and I havent had a single death in all that time.
Its well stocked, but not over, it has a good rate of filtration, which I put my success down to, I do 30% water changes a week, and feed a mix of shelled peas, cucumber, vegetable flakes, and a special frozen malawi food that contains a small amount of krill along with algaes, and also malawi cichlid pellets, obviously not all at once mind you ;-))
I feed every evening except sundays, and twice a week in the mornings too.
They currently live in a 6x2x2 tank, but Im thinking of expanding.....
