the duboise is a few years old in a 65g.,the morii is about a year n almost the size of the other i want to put the morii in to the duboises tank so i can use the one hes in for other fish.
should i put a tropheus morii in with a duboise
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What size tank are you proposing to keep them both in?
IMO there's not much of a problem mixing duboisi and moorii but you have to have a decent number of them.
With only two Tropheus in a tank it is highly likely that one will kick the crap out of the other and possibly kill it.
Keeping them in higher number helps disperse this conspecific aggression.
IMO there's not much of a problem mixing duboisi and moorii but you have to have a decent number of them.
With only two Tropheus in a tank it is highly likely that one will kick the crap out of the other and possibly kill it.
Keeping them in higher number helps disperse this conspecific aggression.
I saw one of those for sale at my lfs I want one so bad but after reading about he tropheus moori I am afraid he would kill the other fish in my tank.. how agressive are they anyways? Is it true they will kill peacocks/haps etc?
greenearthlawns;2885825; said:
They are comparable in aggression to mbuna. Keeping them with peacocks and haps is possible but I wouldn't recommend keeping them with any of the more docile species. They are also very prone to bloating so a strict diet low in animal proteins must be taken into consideration when thinking about tankmates.
straitjacketstar;2886762; said:
I said it more than enough times: one cannot target feed a tropheus in a "community" tank and they will get bloat eventually, either from stress, or overeating. Tropheus are "community" fish in the sense that one needs large colonies of them (20+) to maximize their natural behaviour and minimize the conspecific aggression ...and all the other beautiful reasons, including the ability to target feed them with the best staple foods.
...TROPHEUS should only be kept in colonies and should only be mixed with other compatible tropheus, petrochromis, or simmochromis colonies (IN LARGE ENOUGH TANKS). Only other species completely compatible I can think of are GOBY species.
All the best.
greenearthlawns;2885825; said:
like most cichlids you need Alot of them or a pair....or 1 .....they are aggresive you have to find way to contoll the aggresion..feed well and have alot of them.
EVAN YUNCK;2885620; said:
dont do it, an less you have nice big tank, i have over 20 different sp.of tropheus, very territorial but if you add other cichlid's like frontosa's you'll be fine,that is what i did to stop the chasing and fighting all the time it drove creasy but,not any more....Frontosa came to rescue!