SA/CA or African Cichlid??? i know how these guys temperments are and how they can be aggressive towards tankmates but iwanna try to keep one with maybe 1 or 2 other cichlids in a 125 gallon tank i wanted to house him with CA/SA cichlids do they have different water peramterers?
Talapia Buttikoferi
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Some say SA/CA some say African. I'd go with African. My buddy has one that is around 12" living in a 55 with Rift lake cichlids!!! All the cichlids are under 5 inches as well. It seems as if the Butti is the Groundskeeper and keeps everyone under control. We recently added a small Butti around 3" and he hangs out right with the big guy.
I used to have my 5inch butti with a xingu 1 pike, now it's in with 2 foot long oscars for a while untill i get him a tank of his own.
Butticoferi is an African riverine species. This means that they require the same water parameters and exhibit similar behavior to Central American cichlids. With that being said, this fish is extremly aggresive, far worst than its CA counterparts. Do not attempt to keep it with anything unless your tank is bigger than 180 gallons. This is a true monster and will not hesitate to rip anything to shreds despite its victim being significantlty larger than it is. Keep in mind though that the aggressive nature of thsi does not manifest itself utill its 5-6" in lenght.
i have 2 in my 400gal. and i've seen plenty in community tanks at public aquariums. they do have tempers, but can get along just fine
K im gonna get one! tmorrow wen i goto LFS = ] gonna pic the biggest healthiest lookin one saw one like 2 days ago but he had scars all over him and messed up fins,, i wanted to adopt him to give him a better life but dint want him to affect my tank with some kind of fin rot or simthin
if i were you, i'd get a small one. bigger ones could possibly generate that agression already depending on who kept it to that size and how it was kept to that size. start small, and you have a better chance of keeping tankmates with it.
ethnics;692521; said:
there is a big difference in the temperament a fish will have in a 400 gallon tank and the temperament the same fish will have in a 125. I've seen buttikoferi in a 300 gallon tank relentlessly harrass other large cichlids so even in large tanks they can be very aggressive. imo, buttikoferi should be kept in a tank alone unless you have a several hundred gallon tank to work with. a 125 isn't big enough, imo, for a butti to cohabitate with other large cichlids. there are always exceptions but the odds are definitely slim that things will work out.
ethnics;693964; said:
my lfs always has 1-2 inch fish for sale mainly all there fish except the ones in the big tanks and they have like 2 55gals and 1 125gal as there "big" tanks and the rest they have like 50: 10 gallon tanks will different types of fish in sections and i ment i was gonna get the biggest healthiest one in one of the 10 gallon tanks and the fish will prolly only be an 1inch or half big....but anywayze ithink a female trimac, a buttikoferi, a pike (Xingu I) could coexist in a 125 for at least 5 years what u guys think? oh yeh and all the fish will be grown out in the same tank (a 55gallon) for prolly like 6-8 months,,, then they will upgrade to a 125 gallon tank...and so on///////////////EDITED/////////////// i read this bac after i sent it and mybad about all the writing an **** im blowed right now
