Could I Keep Any Dwarf Cichlids In My Tank

[epic154]

hi guys im thinking about setting up a dwarf cichlids tank it would be 100 litres thanks in advance.

 

[thereverendturtle]

Bolivian rams, laetacara sp., nanochromis, kribs, and butterfly jewel cichlids are all suitable. Of course at most you're looking at a pair of a single species.

 

[epic154]

Bolivian rams, laetacara sp., nanochromis, kribs, and butterfly jewel cichlids are all suitable. Of course at most you're looking at a pair of a single species.

anything else or thats the max i could put it

 

[garyspence84]

Bolivian rams, laetacara sp., nanochromis, kribs, and butterfly jewel cichlids are all suitable. Of course at most you're looking at a pair of a single species.

This is absolutely spot on. You would be pushed for space in a 100ltr tank. Dwarf cichlids like to mark out their own territory, ie caves and such.

I think if you were to mix them you would have to get a singleton of each species. But from what I've read, they prefer to be paired with their own kind.

A pair of kribs would look great in a 100ltr tank, amd there pretty easy to keep, compared to bolivian rams. And there colours are great

 

[epic154]

thanks guys for your comments

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Also Kribs are great parents and breed regularly, I had a pair and ended up selling hundreds back to my lfs.

 

[epic154]

ok thanks guys

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

If this will be a seperate tank from the 100l stocking in your sig, you could do a colony of Tanganyika shell dwellers with some Pseudomugil furcata to act as dithers up the top.