Fish Stock

[blackops]

looks good to me

can u put sum pics up of your tank and new fish pls

 

[hensonc4098]

Should be fine Bala sharks?? Another person bites that bait...

 

[bikerfish]

Hi will get some pics up when I have finished me fish hunting so all crossed by the weekend yeyyyyyyyy cheers for help always great
cathy

now all I need is the weather to change get rid of webbed feet and get 2 wheels and some nice roads in front of me

 

[blackops]

cant wait for pichers

 

[crazyforcordoras]

*Waits for pichers*

 

[bikerfish]

Hi slight change of plan from the keyhole cichild I have fallen for kribensis cichild and done a bit of research and they I think are perfect and bought a pair today and just settling into tank at mo the female I think is already pregant yey fresh dinner for the rest ( only joking ) will take some pics at the weekend
cathy

 

[blackops]

how are your new fish

 

[bikerfish]

Hi the right up on kribs was perfect except I did not read the info about breeding as not bothered about that side , wow big mistake with these fish , once they have spawned which they do very often then its ( HERE COMES JOHHNY ) total physcos my poor little cories, guppys even the black widows would have been taken out so they went back to lfs, so back to the fish board.
Brilliant fish to have and watch if in with fish a lot bigger than them ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What are keyholes like when they spawn ? as lfs are getting some in next week ? will they be ok with me cories and guppys ?
cathy

 

[sadguppy]

Oh dear, I wish I had read his thread... Guppies and kribs do not mix at all in my experience, even when not spawning. You might get a couple who are more chilled - i had a lone female and she had to be removed to solitary because she couldnt behave, but not all are like that - but if they spawn they will take them out. Guppies are too slow and their tails are too tempting!

No experience of other dwarf cichlids but I don't think they're as bad as kribs, they're mean little buggers!

 

[bikerfish]

Hi reading up on the dwarf cichilds I think they are all the same when it comes to spawning so I going to have to totally rethink? I really love the cichilds that have to be kept to there own species but that would mean total of load as only one tank

What about headstanders as they are different ?

Cathy

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Cichlids by nature are more territorial and aggressive, but you cannot tar all cichlids with the same brush, there is a whole spectrum of species of which some are far more community friendly than others. Cichlids at the more community friendly end include things like...
African Butterfly Cichlids
Keyhole
Laetacara spp..
Discrossus spp.

I've only ever kept Lionhead/Blockhead Cichlids (Steatocranus spp.) long term to date, although I did have two stowaway Convict Cichlid youngsters for ~4 weeks that were netted with my four Pyjama Synodontis catfish last summer (which I then returned because of fear of what they might do as they got older). When not breeding, my Steatocranus casuarius (the common Lionhead) were model citizens in community setups, minding their own business. However, in two of the three broods of youngsters they have had, I have lost fish (Humphead Glassfish; Golden Wonder Killifish; Pearl Danios)... They even had my four ~10cm Leopard Bushfish so terrfied last November that the Lionhead 1cm youngsters were hopping about less than two inches from their extendable mouths without harm! And these deaths were not in small tanks either, my Rio240, where all other tankmates got "pinned" to the sidewall of one end of the tank (with the exception of my ~18cm Synodontis decora, who bless him, held his ground and kept to his bogwood cave and thereby kept the Lionhead parent bond strong as they thought they had someone to protect their fry from). Just recently, I tried to add 8 of my 4-5cm goodeid youngsters to the Lionhead youngster tank and one was torn apart within seconds, my gamble of trying to add fish without removing the cichlids was an awful decision in hindsight (I saved the other 7 and put them back in their nursery tank).
My young (~5cm) Steatocranus tinanti have mostly been decent community citizens, with a few exceptions... They treated newborn goodeids as "live lunch" (despite their ~2cm size) and for some reason they took great pleasure in sneaking up on my poor Hoplo Catfish and nipping their tail fins! On the other side of the coin, they are behaving around my 6 ~4cm Beckford Pencilfish (really good ditherfish, making the tinanti more active) and what is left of my ~3cm Microsynodontis sp. 1 catfish group.

The key is putting suitable tankmates with cichlids, in terms of their relative size and aggression. Get this wrond and either the cichlids or the tankmates will suffer to one degree or another.


Edit: Headstanders, hmm, which ones in particular do you have in mind? Anostomus anostomus can be a bit fiesty as they get older.

 

[bikerfish]

Hi not up on the big names the small spotted headstanders , I think they can be slight fin nippers ?
cathy

 

[bikerfish]

Hi yey got the big name Chilodus punctatus I have been given 2 of these but thinking maybe I should get 4 more as read they should be kept in a group ?
cathy

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

A 6+ group sounds much better than two from what I've read, which suggest bullying can happen in small numbers.

I'm sure someone has some of these already on the forum... Wills (I know he had some Anostomus ternetzi, but did he get some Spotted)?

 

[bikerfish]

Hi they came from friends tank as he is getting rid , I think my local pets at home have some so will pop down bit later and get 4 more , they are not quite what I had in mind but slightly different and fit in tank lovely , cheers for all your help will get some pics soon
cathy