Compatibility

[danon]

Evening all,i'm after a little advice.

My tank has been up and running for nearly 2 years now. Started off with 4 yellow labs,3f and 1m.
4 cyno afra white tops, should have been 1m and 3f but, ended up with 3 males.All was fine for about 12months then all hell broke loose, between the afra's.
So i returned them to lfs.
Due to some extreme breeding, I now have about 18 yellow labs.
I have asked my lfs, and they will swap all the yellow labs(will be keeping 4 back).The question is what fish to have in return??
Not sure what stock he has in, but have you any sugestions.

 

[demasonisrule]

What size is your tank? If it is big enough, I would say get demasonis, they look great with labs! You can tell from my name that I like them, and I don't even have any of them

 

[danon]

Tank is 98 X 60 X47cm and 215litres.

 

[danon]

Any one else got any ideas on what fish to put with my yellow labs???

 

[HappyGeorge]

Here's my stocking list add to it One Demasoni, (was led to believe any more than one is a bad idea). Also one Venusti.

6 x Labidochromis caeruleus - yellow labs - 2 male, 4 female.
6 x Labidochromis perlmutt - mother of pearls- 2 male, 4 female.
3 x Labidochromis hongi- 1 male, 2 female.
3 x Cynotilapia afra "red top" - dogtooth cichlid - 1 male, 2 female (possibly).
1 x Pseudotropheus crabro - bumble bee- 1 male.
1 x Cyrtocara moori - blue dolphin- 1 sex unknown bump too small.
6 x Synodontis Multipunctatus - cuckoo catfish- who knows?

I too had problems with aggression between what turned out to be 2 male Afras and have had to remove one.

 

[danon]

Just had a quick look on the net and spotted 'melanochromis johanii'. Lovely looking blue colour!!
Would this be ok with the yellow labs? 1 male, 3 female??
Looking on the net is ok but, some sites say that certain fish are less aggresive than others then, another site says totally the opposite!!!aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh.