what cichlids for a 20 long?

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pacersfan09

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what kind of cichlids can i keep in my 20 long? I do not want to buy german blue rams or any rams or kribs i have had very bad luck with these. Is it possible to keep a convict?
 
no covicts sorry. I say from personal experience cons shouldn't be kept in anything under 30 gallons. Your params will be all out of wack and you will be doing water changes every other day just to keep the nitrates low.
 
you could easyly have a female conin there they max about 4" and yes you can have tiger barbs but its a risk,i went on holiday so i left a feeding block, they didnt touch it but eat the tiger barbs, there was 5tiger barbs, JD, con and a green terror.
ever thought about HRP-honduran redpoint they are simular to convicts but nicer looking, less aggressive and rare-ish. they would be fine with tiger barbs and you could have a pair- there awesome fish i have fry and 1 male my female died:(
 
jombi21;1168073; said:
Agreed. A female should be no problem. Id say two, even.

Jom
so females are less agressive so i could keep one or 2. What do i put in with them? It is obviously a semi-agressive tank, so maybe tiger barbs, or serpae tetras? i am not sure. And the bioload would not be too much with 2 female convicts?
 
yep either one you want Tb or the tetra would be fine.

no the bioload would be fine assuming you have decent filtration.

so what is the filtration going to be ??
 
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