startin 29 gallon tank

[CHRIS79]

EBJD's grow out cause they will make you buy a bigger tank

 

[HarlanAshmore]

apistogrammas

 

[Biggfeast]

convicts, salvini, firemouths, cutterri, hrp, dwarf cichlids

so for salvinis and firemouths, culd they be put in with dwarfs and how many of each could manage??

 

[LobstersGoPeenchPeench]

u could go with a planted tank with some apistogrammas or some laetenacra curvicep or dorisegas or some hondurean red points or a dwarf pike cichlid compressicas or whatever with some nice colorful tetras as dithers. and the cichlids could stay in for life and u could do about 4 of each but the pike. only one species or even two pairs of one of the above in the tank with lots of plants.

 

[Lupin]

so for salvinis and firemouths, culd they be put in with dwarfs and how many of each could manage??

I would not advise mixing any of the two with SA dwarf cichlids.

 

[Biggfeast]

okay, so do u think i can get away with a salvini and a firemouth or convict?

 

[rmcder]

Ok... A couple things... First of all, Firemouth and Salvini are not South American, they are Central American. If you actually want SA for some reason, then these fish are not what you want. Secondly, if you DO want the CA fish, you need to make sure you get a female sal, and even then, if you get an aggressive one, you're going to have problems. Firemouths tend to be all bluff, so if an aggressive sal decides to call his or her bluff, the firemouth is in trouble. Thirdly, you can't put dwarfs in with (relatively) aggressive CA cichlids; they'll end up being expensive snacks.

You need to think about what is going to work long-term in your 60g tank. The sal may or may not. The firemouth will. Honduran red points or convicts will. Multispinosa will. Sajica will. MAYBE a single ebjd, if you can keep one alive or get it at a decent (>3") size.

So, ebjd, fm, multi should work. Or fm, multi, hrp/sajica. I'd stay away from fm and convict because they may breed and decide to kill everything else in the tank.

Otoh, you might try a severum with a fm (severum get pretty big). Or a GT with ??

 

[kevbc03]

EBJD's grow out cause they will make you buy a bigger tank

lol Plecos do get rather huge and produce mass waste, so idk how well that would work out in your 29 gal.

 

[Biggfeast]

ima get a carpintis and salvini, it settled, hopefully an escondido if i can find one

 

[abiddle]

If its a grow out for a 60 gallon get a green terror or a jack dempsey or a severum.