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04-20-2006, 04:24 PM
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Can't decide
I have been keeping fish for about 2 years now and I wanted to try cichlids. I have an empty 50 gallon tank. I wanted some kind of bigger fish. I maybe wanted to get a pair of wat ever fish I was gonna get. Does anyone have any suggestions.
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04-20-2006, 04:27 PM
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Severums! They are adorable! Gold or terquoise :P
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04-20-2006, 07:43 PM
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Well, you can't go too big with a 50 gal, especially if you want a pair....
But here's a couple suggestions... Nicks...  Centrarchus...  Salvini...  firemouths...  pretty much anything in the Archocentrus or Thorichthys group... What's the dementions of your tank?
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04-21-2006, 05:50 AM
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A pair of SA or CA cichlids that grow to no larger than 7 inches will be ideal. I would recomend buying an established breeding pair from somewhere to prevent fighting, as they will fight if you just put a male and female in the same tank which aren't a true "breeding pair".
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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. |
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04-21-2006, 03:52 PM
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You can also get 5 or 6 as babies and let them pair them selves then get rid of the extras.... Best way to get a pair w/o buying adults that are already paired...
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04-22-2006, 09:47 AM
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Since my choices are limited for bigger fish do u think I can get a pair of Colbat Blue Zebras if I can could someone tell me wat kind of temp. and ph they like.
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04-22-2006, 11:42 AM
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Temp in the high 70's low 80's...and ph about 8.3ish
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04-22-2006, 04:21 PM
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the cobalts are african cichlids, if your going that route, you can put a few more fish in, keep the smaller ones and you can get away with 8 if your lucky.
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