tankmates for chocolate cichlid

[rick4198]

What other types of south/central american cichlids could I keep with a chocolate cichlid?

 

[Onion01]

oscars, jd, gt. all go great with them. chocalates are less voracious oscars pretty much

 

[japes]

Severums, Geophagus, Keyholes, Acara

/me looks at signature They're placid giants, much less aggressive than any other 10-12" Cichlids that you'll reguarly find available. Will be aggressive while spawning, but I'd keep them with smaller semi-aggressive Cichlids like Convicts, Salvini etc, but not with Parachromis and the other big bad boys. I'm sure they can hold their own but they won't excel.

From personal experience my Male is a huge sook, has an occasional flare at one of my Severum (the one that's an inch smaller than him ) but other than that, absolutely nothing. I even think they're Tetra friendly, though you might lose the odd one here and there if they get bored I would imagine.

 

[rick4198]

ok thanks. I think that I will probably get a severum.

 

[barley pop]

uaru would work as well... but they need to be kept in groups of 2 or more

 

[Muske]

I've seen O's, JDs, and Geos. work.

 

[Taz2478]

Bocourti

 

[BloodThirsty]

I have a Chocolate and a smaller GT together right now. The GT keeps the Choc in it's place. Only one major flare up in the last year. Hopefully it works out. We shall see.

 

[kscichlidfan]

My choclate is only about 5inches (not counting tail) and it is a voracious eater of anything especially loves treats frozen foods, feeder rosey reds, crayfish etc. I wouldnt trust it with a fish smaller than 2inches or basically what it can fit into its mouth. But anything too big to be eaten isnt touched unless it invades the choclates personal space.

 

[japes]

Mine is a monsterous fatty, his nickname is 'Fathead' because I'm quite sure it's a male and he doesn't stop eating.

I'd trust him with Tetra though, they're very lazy fish.