mbunas are the best dithers for monster tanks

[candidpets]

yeah i know they are vegan but still no fish makes better dieters. My rainbow fish get eaten, my giant diano eaten.


Convicts survive a while but eventually get torn up, only mbuna stay in perfect condition

with RD red wolf and big pike cichlids

I can add any amount of mbuna and they always are okay

 

[J. H.]

Add too many and you might find out just why they have a reputation of being killers.

 

[johnny potatoes]

How about a couple pics?

 

[Fizzicks]

You have my attention.
Photos are a must at this point.

 

[sunnysjourney]

I don't know much about mbunas but I've had a group of african tiger scats with my monsters and they're amazing dithers. They're also killers, so you gotta watch out what kind of fish you add with them.

 

[duanes]

A fried of mine kept mbuna in a 220 with 2 pairs of festae, and the tank worked well, always looked geographically incorrect to me, but to each there own.
I also read an article in Cichlid News Mag where the author used mbuna as target fish in a tank with beanii, the new worlds probably don't consider mbuna, real cichlids .

 

[Hendre]

Maybe it's the colour and shape that makes them different. Geographically incorrect isn't bad as long as the fish get on. My tanks are loosely correct, by continent

 

[FMA4ME]

I would like to see pics also!

 

[Grinch]

I've kept mbuna with big cichlids ("Vieja" and Crenicichla)... worked well. Mbuna wasn't noticeably stressed by the experience. The same cannot be said of other fish I've tried as dithers.

 

[Hendre]

My polypterus subtly act as dithers for my African knives, not as targets but it brings them out.

Mbuna seem interesting enough though