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Cichlid Man · 01-11-2006, 07:05 AM

NO, but then again neither can their saltwater equivalents.

For example, those jaguar cichlids and panther groupers will predate on anything that can fit into their mouths. And the zebra cichlid will grow too big for other fish to cope with.
Also, things like rams can't be kept with corals as they are soft water fish, and corals will raise the pH to around 7.5-8.5.
The clownloach, ram and angel fish can be kept together as they are all softwater fish. Quite a natural looking marine tank made from river sand and synthetic corals, anemones. As long as there is enough cover in terms of caves etc, the fish will be quite at home.
If using real dead corals, then ideal fish would me a mixture of malawis and tanganikans, but remember when mixing africans together and least one hiding space per fish should be added, and if you are housing larger cichlids with smaller ones, it's always a good idea to have many hiding places where the small ones can fit into but not the larger ones, this means that they can have their own breeding territory without being evicted by their larger cousins.

01-11-2006, 07:05 AM	#16
Cichlid Man Fish Fanatic Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,095	NO, but then again neither can their saltwater equivalents. For example, those jaguar cichlids and panther groupers will predate on anything that can fit into their mouths. And the zebra cichlid will grow too big for other fish to cope with. Also, things like rams can't be kept with corals as they are soft water fish, and corals will raise the pH to around 7.5-8.5. The clownloach, ram and angel fish can be kept together as they are all softwater fish. Quite a natural looking marine tank made from river sand and synthetic corals, anemones. As long as there is enough cover in terms of caves etc, the fish will be quite at home. If using real dead corals, then ideal fish would me a mixture of malawis and tanganikans, but remember when mixing africans together and least one hiding space per fish should be added, and if you are housing larger cichlids with smaller ones, it's always a good idea to have many hiding places where the small ones can fit into but not the larger ones, this means that they can have their own breeding territory without being evicted by their larger cousins. __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers. Last edited by Cichlid Man; 01-11-2006 at 07:13 AM.