Need some suggestions

[Venustus]

My fish tank has a Red Zebra, Green Terror, a dark blue cichlid with horizontal stripes who I haven't been able to figure out what he is and a common pleco. I want to add possibly 3 more to the tank. Any suggestions so I can have a colorful yet even-tempered tank?

I just had to get rid of a Johanii because he was beating everyone else up!

Thanks,

-Venustus

 

[Blue2Fyre]

What size tank?

 

[Venustus]

I have a 45g tank.

 

[Sciroccoman]

take the GT out and add around a dozen more Mbunas.

add a Yellow Lab or two, and get some Afras, throw in some Pseudotropheus, and maybe even one venustus.

 

[Blue2Fyre]

The Gt will get too large for that tank eventually. I would stick with more mbuna once th GT is gone. Afras are great they have a lot of variation. The fish in my avatar is a Cynotilapia sp "hara" also known as white top hara. They look really nice and aren' too aggressive. They do well in mbuna communities IMO.
If you want less aggression I suggest yellow labs (Labidochromis Caeruleus) or PS acei. They are colorful and pretty easy going. Don't add a venustus. They get way too big for the size tank you have.

 

[Mague]

Because of your tank size I would also recommend going with mbunas. Yellow labs, red zebras, kenyis you could even add a Yellow tail.

 

[Venustus]

Thank you all so much for the suggestions. This is really great! I hate the news about the Green Terror though. He is a big fish yet very docile in the tank. I would hate to give him away especially to a fish store where who knows what might happen to him. What size tank would be ideal for a Terror?? I might just have to upgrade the tank haha!

 

[Otherone]

55 min. for a single GT - 75 or larger for tanksmates, they may seem very docile as juvis however they don't call them terrors cause they play nice. Stick w/ Mbunas, Vics ,or small lake tang cics in 45 gal.