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matt123 · 07-25-2007, 06:55 PM

Hello everyone, and thank you for checking out this topic. I would like to get into fishkeeping a little more seriously and I have been thinking about setting up a 55g to breed. The thing is, I don't have a ton of room, so I would like to put 2 breeding pairs (trios possibly?) of different species sectioned off from eachother in the tank.

I would like to stay with small types of cichlids, and maybe use the 55g to house some fry also. Since I only have a couple years of experience, I would think it would be easier to maintain 1 larger tank than to have two twenty gallons and few smaller fry tanks. So basically, I'm asking what type of smaller cichlids would have very similar water conditions, and that could breed nicely in a split 55g. Would the sectioning of the tank cut down on water circulation? Thanks for any advice on the idea.

07-25-2007, 06:55 PM	#1
matt123 Who knows Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Goshen NY Posts: 29	Help on Setting up a Cichlid Breeding 55g? Hello everyone, and thank you for checking out this topic. I would like to get into fishkeeping a little more seriously and I have been thinking about setting up a 55g to breed. The thing is, I don't have a ton of room, so I would like to put 2 breeding pairs (trios possibly?) of different species sectioned off from eachother in the tank. I would like to stay with small types of cichlids, and maybe use the 55g to house some fry also. Since I only have a couple years of experience, I would think it would be easier to maintain 1 larger tank than to have two twenty gallons and few smaller fry tanks. So basically, I'm asking what type of smaller cichlids would have very similar water conditions, and that could breed nicely in a split 55g. Would the sectioning of the tank cut down on water circulation? Thanks for any advice on the idea.