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A friend of mine is looking to down size on the hobby and looks like I'll be getting first dibs on the spoils. He's going to be selling me a 75 gallon tank and am wondering what you guys think would be a good Cichlid to stock it with? I'm also not opposed to getting a breeding pair of Cichlids either. I'm having a lot of trouble deciding so some help would be appreciated :D
 
I think a pair of JD's would be cool. But it would depend entirely on what your wanting to do. you could go with many small cichlids, or a pair of larger such as JD's. If your wanting more smaller fish, i think africans would be cool
 
I'm heavily leaning toward getting just one or two SA/CA Cichlids. The main reason being my 180 gallon cichlid community is all African save for four BP/BP hybrids
 
I would say JD's then if it were my tank. Or better yet EBJD's :D
 
Here is a good artical to read if you are actually wanting to try to produce EBJD fry, its possible but complicated lol
http://jackdempseycichlid.com/general/breeding-electric-blue-jack-dempsey-cichlid/

Wow reading that kinda flashed me back to breeding corn snakes and ball pythons lol.

To answer the question simply...2 ebjd's will produce very fragile or non viable fry.
But I think i would still go with ebjd's just not with the intention of breeding. obviously they will probably breed, but just not produce.
 
You got it. Genetics can be a real bugger but he lays it out pretty well in that artical. Let us know what ya decide on.
 
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