eventually one of the 55 gallons will become a brackish water tank and the gobies will go in there. along with a few other brackish fish such as monos, a flounder, etc.
Stocking with African Cichlids, is it possible?
- Thread starter charles-n-charge
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I'm usually an advocate of mixing Africans with other fish, however some of those are likely going to be a bad idea...
-Ropefish might be okay, assuming the get enough food
-Dragon gobies are likely to get picked on and starve
-African knife is in the same boat as the ropefish
-African butterflys are really mellow, and likely to get picked on by curious cichlids
-Jardini aro, would probably be cool in a larger tank, until he starts eating stuff...but Africans are pretty quick.
-Pleco's fine
-Redtail sharks are usually fine too, good algae-eaters and mean too
You may run into issues having only 6 Africans, they do best in bigger groups to spread out the aggression. Personally, I think the knife, ropes, dragon gobies and butterflies would do better in an oddball tank on their own.
-Ropefish might be okay, assuming the get enough food
-Dragon gobies are likely to get picked on and starve
-African knife is in the same boat as the ropefish
-African butterflys are really mellow, and likely to get picked on by curious cichlids
-Jardini aro, would probably be cool in a larger tank, until he starts eating stuff...but Africans are pretty quick.
-Pleco's fine
-Redtail sharks are usually fine too, good algae-eaters and mean too
You may run into issues having only 6 Africans, they do best in bigger groups to spread out the aggression. Personally, I think the knife, ropes, dragon gobies and butterflies would do better in an oddball tank on their own.
my over-all stock list is:SimonL;4966020; said:
200 Gallon -
1x Silver Arowana
2x Red Bellied Pacu
1x Tiger Oscar
1x Bluegil Sunfish
1x Tiger Shovelnose Catfish
1x Clown Knife
1x Common Pleco
55 Gallon -
Empty and not set up
55 Gallon -
1x Comet Goldfish
1x Irridesent Shark
2x Bala Shark
2x Red Fin Tin-Foil Barb
2x Jurupari
4x African Butterfly
1x Red Tall Shark
3x Rope FIsh
2x Dragon Goby
1x African Knifefish
1x Common Pleco
30 Gallon-
6x Asorted African Cichlids
1x Common Pleco
20 Gallon-
1x Angelfish
4x Rosey Minnow
1x Comet Goldfish
20x Big Mouth Bass Fry
2x Zebra Danio
5x Chinnesse Algae Eater
2x Cory Catfish
3x Guppy
Basically everyone will move up to the tank size most suited for them once ive built my 800 Gallon Tank/Pond this summer1x Silver Arowana
2x Red Bellied Pacu
1x Tiger Oscar
1x Bluegil Sunfish
1x Tiger Shovelnose Catfish
1x Clown Knife
1x Common Pleco
55 Gallon -
Empty and not set up
55 Gallon -
1x Comet Goldfish
1x Irridesent Shark
2x Bala Shark
2x Red Fin Tin-Foil Barb
2x Jurupari
4x African Butterfly
1x Red Tall Shark
3x Rope FIsh
2x Dragon Goby
1x African Knifefish
1x Common Pleco
30 Gallon-
6x Asorted African Cichlids
1x Common Pleco
20 Gallon-
1x Angelfish
4x Rosey Minnow
1x Comet Goldfish
20x Big Mouth Bass Fry
2x Zebra Danio
5x Chinnesse Algae Eater
2x Cory Catfish
3x Guppy
