malawi in the Tang Biotope.

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immunknyc

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:nilly:guys I recently had a friend that had to get rid of two fish and i cant see them hurt so i decided to take them. The Two Fish are the Electric Blue , and a Frontosa. The tank is only 55 gallon 4 ft. this is what i have decided to keep and took the other tanks down. The Question I have : how bad is it to add the Electric Blue , Is he gonna reek havoc on the other members of the tank? If I know they are sort of peaceful compared to other malawis, and he was the last fish added to an established tank. Will he be fine and just linger around the top? The frontosa im not worried about until hes big, but never had electric blue before,

stock is as follows.
2 calvus
1 altocompressor
1 brichardi
1 lelupi
2 cylinders
1 trek
2 N. Brevis
2 Lamprologus meleagrise
1 yellow julie
and 1 synodontis ..

now add 1 frontosa and 1 electric blue .
Will the Electric Blue destroy my relatively peacfull set up ?
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should be okay. But at full grown size 6-7" average he may eat a fish if he can catch it? Have plenty hiding place for the tangs.
Your Frontosa will eventually get big 7-15" typically males get bigger & also can eat other fish if it wants too but usually more aggressive with its own kind. If you upgrade to a bigger tank go with a a bigger longer foot print instead of height unless space is a premium then go with the largest tank possible?

me Dave
 
Yah dave i have a couple tanks in the basement that I had in the wall of my old house. I may have to break into homedepoet and make a new stand for the frontosa , a year from now. Do you think i can Leave the electric blue in the tang forever. ? will he bring aggression up ?
 
I've only recently started keeping Tangs, but have plenty of Malawi tanks. Aggression aside, my biggest concern is that haps are typically much more active swimmers and larger than most Tangs. I would worry about him tweaking out the Altolamps.

In terms of aggression, given the same size, brichardi, leulupi and cylindricus are all more aggressive than an ahli.

The front should be fine temporarily, so long as he does not eat anyone. They're typically pretty neutral in a community setting.

Good luck.
 
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