Rock Kribensis

[SphericalCube]

Not sure if I'm in the right forum or not. . . don't know a whole lot about this particular cichlid. . . but I picked 3 up today at the LFS store. . . I take my babies up there so he hooks me up whenever I want something and I saw a beautiful male 2in with great coloration and 2 holding females so I got a buy one get 2 free deal with about 50 dalmation feeder mollies. . . ended up costing me 12.25. . . got them home and stripped 23 fry from the two females. . . now I'm wondering where to put them. I'm still in the process of building my breeding system. . . not to mention buying 12x29g tanks is going to cost an arm and a leg. . . so I was wondering if they'd do alright in my mbuna tank? What do y'all think?

--Jimmy

 

[Honda12]

Rock kribs really aren't all that agressive for an african cichlid. They would be better suited in a hap or peacock tank. I had some in with mbuna and the would get beat up quite a bit. They never got killed but, I didn't like the fact that they had it pretty ruff in there so I moved them to my hap tank. They are a really nice fish though.

 

[SphericalCube]

Well, I have a peacock in my mbuna tank that does quite well. . . the only ones in that tank that get picked on are the Convicts. . . and that's because they start fights with my 6in JD that they can't finish. . .

 

[Honda12]

If you have a peacock in there then they should be fine. My mbuna tank was too hard core for them and they get relenless chaseings by my M. Chipokea, and P. demasoni males.

 

[SphericalCube]

Yeah, my chipokae male is pretty aggressive. . . especially since he has two females in there. . . but him and the JD are the two most aggresive in the tank and the JD is actually pretty chill unless he's gettin' f'd with. . . I've got them in quarantine for now but I'll put them in my comm. cichlid tank in about a week and we'll see what happens.