bigfishhead Posted November 6, 2012 Report Share Posted November 6, 2012 I have several groups of cichlids all about to reach adult age. I am think to do a shuffle to make one tank malawi tank and the other Tang&Hap mixed tank. They are currently seperated and mixed in two tanks. What I am going to put into the Tang&Hap mixed tank to start with are Full grown Adult male Stuartgranti Maleri X 1 Full grown Adult male Red Kadango X 1 (I am thinking to get rid of this guy as it may cause problem with Red empress) Semi-adult Giraffe group X 4 (Remove and leave only one male and one female at the end) Semi-adult Frontosa group X 10 Semi-adult Red Empress group X 12 Semi-adult Eye biter X 10 (remove most of eye biter only leave one male adult or two) I may add more adult male peacocks and adult male brown hap later on to increase the color variety. Consider the only possible FEMALE would be Giraffe, Frontosa, Red Empress and Eye biter(for a short period of time). Would any above species likely to cross breed create hybirds? My aim is to have a nice MIXED display tank while still able to get Fonts, Red Empress and possibly Giraffe breed in there. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nudge Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 Hard to say, i would guess though that with so many males in that tank with only a few females would prob cause alot of aggression as well as increase your chances of crossbreeding. I'm a bit confused are all the fish listed staying in the 1 tank? You said a tang/hap tank but you have a peacock and said that you may add more as well as brown haps? Also i would leave the giraffe male with a few more females as they can be pretty aggro when spawning and 1 lone female would cop a hard time and how big are the fronts? there will be alot of very big fish in this tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 Hard to say, i would guess though that with so many males in that tank with only a few females would prob cause alot of aggression as well as increase your chances of crossbreeding. I'm a bit confused are all the fish listed staying in the 1 tank? You said a tang/hap tank but you have a peacock and said that you may add more as well as brown haps? Also i would leave the giraffe male with a few more females as they can be pretty aggro when spawning and 1 lone female would cop a hard time and how big are the fronts? there will be alot of very big fish in this tank! Thanks nudge... I was thinking only have red empress and giraffe with fronts. But I just love peacocks....and brown hap looks good too. So may be through in a few male to increase some color. Anyway, fronts and Giraffes are around 15CM. Still have time for them to grow. I need to get a longer bigger tank at the end.... Red empresses are a bit smaller just over 10CM at moment but already show very nice coloring. Im not too worry about fronts. But does red empress cross with peacocks? Giraffe cross with Red empress?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 i would think an empress would cross with peacocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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