Ive got a female and male Neolamprologus pulcher, male cockatoo and an Apisto (not sure on full name/sex)?(blue in colour) think its a male would I be able to keep all 3 in a 3 ft tank theyre currently in seperate tanks but Im doinga bit of a change around????

hmmm the pulcher's require quite different water parameters to the others, and also the pulcher's get really aggresive when the breed, we have the brichardi's (which are similiar) and they will kill any other fish in there tank when they feel like it.

I have found for a general rule of thumb compatibility guide line I use this site

http://www.timstropicals.com/Compatibil ... Search.asp

You just enter the fish (if they have it on the list) and it will bring up a list of fish that they are able to be housed with.

Hope this helps

Cheers

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I agree with jo and willy, your apistos will want a ph of 6-6.5, where as the african cichlids require a high ph (8+ from memory).

HTH & Good luck

sorry to get off topic but that is a fantastic tool, now if only I could find a simmilar database to compare the results.

Doug

the fish all have the same water parameters at the mo maybe thats why the pulchers wont breed? sounds like the pulchers will have to stay in there 2 ft

I would agree with everyone bout the Pulchers, once they do decide to breed they will take over the tank. My Pulchers that I had would tolerate a Ph of 6.8-7.0 if they had to(when I was slack with water changes :roll: ).

They were in a community tank with bolivian rams,fire eel and so forth

Stop looking at me like that.

I agree the pulchers will be too aggressive once they spawn. You will have the same problem as me once they fill your 2 footer with more n. pulcher - 100's more. I have to do twice weekly water changes now or they all stop growing - maybe thats a good thing? :roll:

I don't know anything about the pulchers but the apisto and the cockatoo should be right. I have, in my 3 foot 2 pairs of kribs, a (fingers crossed) breeding trio of apostos and a lone surviving male cockatoo (belive it's a male, had a mate but mysteriously died) and they all live fine with the red tailed shark, cory's, GBA's, swords, guppies, killies, a pair of moonlight gouramis, a pair of dwarf gouramis and one or two other inherited fish.