nickyboi Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 OK, I currently have -2 Elec Yellow - 1 Male 1 Female -6 Kenyi - approx 4cm can see a few males colour coming out I want to bid on - PSEUDOTROPHEUS ZEBRA MALE - Convict Cichlids- Male and Female - Malawi Blue Faced Peacock - Male Will these guys be ok with my current family of fishies? Tank is 250L, Aqua One 1200 filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickyboi Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Cool! Im not going to get the pair, only the male, cos quite pretty although this may still cause problems? Other fishies I will prob take! if worst comes to worst I can seperate them, seeing as I have MTS already :lol: Cheers Vamp, you are an angel 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polgara Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 not sure about the kenyi as we have never had any but we have kept yellows, zebras, convicts (all female) and peacocks all in the same tank and never had any problems. just remember cichlids are really messy and the more you have the more you have to filter and with our 300L tank with 2 internal filters one doing 1200lph and one doing 600lph (I think) and we still occasionally get some high nitrate spikes and doing 20% water changes a week combats it pretty well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 all the good african cichlid cichlid breeders and keeper etc. say that it is not wise to put peacocks with mbuna (yellows, zebras etc.) mbuna are very aggressive fish and have a highly veggie diet and peacocks are very peaceful and have and omnivorus/carnivorus diet. some poeple claim that keeping peacocks with mbuna shortens that life span of the peacocks, i dont know if this is true though. i still keep mbuna with peacocks and occasionally have a beaten up peacock, but they get better quickly so i dont really mind hope this helps. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Depends on the mbuna. Yellows are a mbuna & are very peaceful. I wouldn't get the zebras,(pseud) what type of zeb they are first. Kenyi/ called lombardoi's here are agro buggers when bigger.(males especially) A 10cm kenyi at Brads house rules over a 30cm fronnie. Female convicts are the nicest in my opinion as they get the orange flashes. Peacocks will get beaten up by the kenyi, yellows may later on too get picked on by kenyi. Peacocks will good with yellows, I have this with no dramas, donr this many a time. Peacocks adapt easily too a diet of vegie flakes & mysis shrimp. (The home brew will suit all africans.) Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.