Confusion with advice

[leongreenway]

Hi,

I have discussed on these forums mixing Red tailed Black shark fish with Paradise fish and various Cyclids, alot of people have said they are not really compatible, however I have found an interesting page on this website

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can anyone explain...please

[mxpx4318]

ok well I definetly don't think you've got a very good source there at all. For example a Midas cichlid gets quite large and tiger barbs stay quite small and there is no way to keep the two together (acctually you can't keep much of anything with a midas from what I understand they're quite agressive fish) also they have figure 8 puffers on that list and i do own one of those and know that they are a brackish fish and do not belong on the compatable list with any of those fish. just because water params are the same for a fish doesn't mean that the fish can always go together much more needs to be taken into consideration such as agressiveness, space needed (not just to keep the water quality good), etc. I think I've already expressed this once in your other thread but I re-itterate please consider a bigger tank if you want to keep fish of that size, but if you'd like to do a 25g tank I'd recommend:

pair of convicts (male/female pair and you'll have more fry then you can count which could be fun) (nice aggressive cichlid tank)
or
school of about 6 tiger barbs, 1 bristenose pleco, school of 6 cory catfish (quite a variety of them and a very interesting fish to watch) (good community I'd think)

I'm sure others will be along with suggestions if you want other ideas.

best of luck,
Phillip

[Osiris]

i believe they are aiming at water parimeters, you can mostly certainly keep them with cichlids, they are fine, they are kept in african cichlid tanks as well, just the ph is off i believe. But like any other fish it will adapt, i highly doubt the fish store messes with ph levels, it is best to leave it as, as messing with ph levels is worse then letting it adapt to the ph level it is being kept at.

[leongreenway]

Once again cheers Phil

[Mr Aquarium]

Leon, when you put a url in your post, you don;t need the tags on it, [IMG] is for pistures,
just the plain url is all you need for links to works

[Osiris]

yup like this:
http://www.fishprofiles.com/interact...atible+Species

[leongreenway]

Ah,

thank you kindly

Leon

[Thunderkiss]

Heh, i didn't read the list exhaustively, but i think well over half those fish would destroy a bicolor. Red Terror? Green terror? Africans? well ok, if all things were perfect MAYBE. Dempseys? Oscars? at the very least, all those fish get big enough to eat it, nevermind temperment.
Heh, im suprised they didn't list pihranna or maneguenses
Don't use that site for anything hehe.