Turtle/mbuna

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Their quoted at 5 inches but they have a large neck, I have them in each of my discus tanks and they do not take fish, including the ottos that are stuck on the glass or even my amano shrimp but then I hand feed my turtles to ensure they are well fed. In regards to basking lamps there is some argument whether they are necessary but I have turnt mine off as most of mine don't even come out the water


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What about uvb light? And yea I feel like any fish that gets taken is probably weak or sick, mbuba are quick and active so they should be fine as well as the turtle.

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Mine don't have any UVB lighting but they have done but they never used it as they never bask, I have RES and they behave completely differently basking 60% of the time. I would recommend a turtle they are fantastic with fish as they add a different dimension. In my tanks I have rays, discus turtles on their own but the thing visitors are obsessed with is the musk turtles foraging alongside my corydoras!


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very cool, how do you feed the turtle with the fish in the tank? i feel like it would be difficult to feed them if you had mbunas swimming around. also what about water hardness? i read they like soft water, would hard water have a negative effect on a turtle?

lennym said:
Their quoted at 5 inches but they have a large neck, I have them in each of my discus tanks and they do not take fish, including the ottos that are stuck on the glass or even my amano shrimp but then I hand feed my turtles to ensure they are well fed. In regards to basking lamps there is some argument whether they are necessary but I have turnt mine off as most of mine don't even come out the water


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I'm not too hot on the water hardness issue I'm afraid as mine is kept in a soft water tank but as they are captive bred it shouldn't be a massive issue, in regards to feeding it varies from turtle to turtle but I give mine frozen bloodworms held down with reptile feeding tongs and there is no issue


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I've kept turtles with fish before but there is always that chance all turtles are different my paint turtles always tried to get frisky with my fish. A lot of filtration is a must

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I have two Razorback musk and a pink belly sideneck in my 150, along with several sa fish. They get along very well and have never had any of these turtles even chase a fish. In fact my 2 severums follow the side neck around the tank like dogs. I had a painted turtle that I had to remove because it was constantly chasing my silver dollars.

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The red ear has been doing good so far with the mbuna, when I first added him the all flocked together like what the hell is that lol but no aggression.

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