260 litre tank
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Blue acaras are more territorial than angels and discus. A pair will take over half the tank and that will be theirs.
What about a Rift Lake tank containing Lake Malawi cichlids like Aulonocara species and something else?
Lake Malawi has a GH around 300ppm and a pH around 7.6 so you would need to add a Rift Lake water conditioners if you have soft water. But the fish would grow to 4-6 inches and the males are really nicely coloured. You could have a group of males (no females) and it can look pretty good.
What about a Rift Lake tank containing Lake Malawi cichlids like Aulonocara species and something else?
Lake Malawi has a GH around 300ppm and a pH around 7.6 so you would need to add a Rift Lake water conditioners if you have soft water. But the fish would grow to 4-6 inches and the males are really nicely coloured. You could have a group of males (no females) and it can look pretty good.
Discus can grow to the size of a dinner plate and there were photos in magazines many years ago showing them on dinner plates. We also had a customer who was from the Amazon and she had photos of discus they had caught for dinner and they were big fish (10-12 inches x 2 inches thick). She used to come in and stir the boss up by asking if we had any new discus. He would take her into the fish room and point them out and she would say they look really tasty. She was hilarious. They both loved discus but she could stir the boss up beautifully.
I'm not sure if that is a legit picture. I certainly wouldn't have that many blue acaras in the same tank.What about if I stocked it to the extent of the picture above? Surely the aggression would be dispersed?
Tank will be heavily planted to African cichlids are out the equation really
If you put a lot in one tank eventually some will pair and take over an area of the tank because American cichlids claim landscape and objects. Does the tank have to be planted? I suspect you'd really be into Malawi cichlids - most people that want a tank full of American cichlids (Acaras, Angels, Discus) really want a Malawi tank but don't know it yet, speaking from experience here...What about if I stocked it to the extent of the picture above? Surely the aggression would be dispersed?
Tank will be heavily planted to African cichlids are out the equation really
See I knew you'd like them haha!I’ve kept peacocks before… here’s a pic
I just don’t think they would fair well with plants. Having said that, I plan for the tank to be 80% epiphytes
Few people manage to keep them with Anubias and Buce, but thats more Mbuna side - I dont know how Peacocks and Haps deal with them, with them being less herbivorous overall?
Me neither, I know they used to dig a lot and that used to annoy me as the substrate was never straight. Perhaps I’ll just have to make so with a community tank, not really what I wanted but I guess it’s not possible
Ahhhh, as said before I don’t have the patience to be raising fish from that small. I want instant 4+ inch eye catching fish. I’m tempted to just go for the discus. I know they take a couple years to get to that dinner plate size, so I’ll either have money for a tank upgrade, or just sell them
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