firenzenz Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 American cichlids are unknown territory to me so looking for personal accounts of these as have read they are less aggressive than their blue cousies, and therefore an OK tankmate for blue Dempseys. Have read accounts overseas of these guys being a good option yet I got only NO!NO!NO! from anyone I asked locally. Would introduce them when they were smaller than the blues- what do you reckon? what are you keeping them with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Not sure about gold, but I had a 10cm pink male who would dominate my 3' tank, and have a go at everything in there. I moved him to his own 3' tank, and the cat would sit in front of the tank while he charged the glass and flared his gills at her! Awesome fish!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diffgirl Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 we keep a mix of striped and pink (gold) cons, the males look very gold and there is some mixed info on what they are, I call them pinks, anyway ours started their life with us in a tank of alsorts, we had in there our Jags, malawis, cons, plecos, a black shark and some jewls, in the begining we had some bolivian butterflys but they only lasted 2 days but other than that they all did well together. The cons are a fiesty fish, they play rough but they seem to weed out the weaker ones pretty quick, at the mo we are breeding and boy do they do that quick, so I would sugest to keep all of one sex if you dont want too much trouble, because as soon as they have fry they get super teritorial but they like to move house alot too and their teritory changes and they dont care who was there first. All our females have lovely red patches on their bellies and top fin this is both the striped and pink and the boys when they become mature they get a bump on their head, here are some pics of ours, like I say girls have red on them. Also a good idea to keep the similar sized fish in your tank, because the rule of thumb is the smaller guys get picked on. keep in mind this is the experience we have had with our guys, and I like to work on the more info the beter, so see what others have to sat and work off it all but I think they are a super cool little fish, our boys full grown are aprox 9-11cm and girls 5-7cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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