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Hello all.
Here's the situation. I got fish sent to me today by accident. They were supposed to go to someone in London but ended up with me here in Newcastle. Instead of 4 peppered cories imagine my surprise when I got:
Pair of albino kribs
Pair of blue limas
Pair of Chromidotilapia finleyi/Benitochromis nigrodorsalis cichlids - Moliwe (?)
They could not be sent back so they are mine free of charge (and my cories will arrive on Thursday
).
I have moved my 2 peppered cories from the 16UK tank to my coldwater tank to be with the other 2 cories and the 4 that will arrive next week, and put the blue limas in with my 4 other cories, 6 barbs and 4 otos. I hope this will be ok for now at least.
The kribs and other cichlids have been realeased into my 71UK community tropical tank. Now as you can see from my signature I have a lot of fish in there already but always have perfect levels.
This is where it gets complicated...
You will also see that I already have 2 kribs (non-albino, non-breeding). Since I released the kribs the 2 females have been nose-nose fighting a bit and the original female is being the nasty one. The original female is about half the size of the new and the original male is about a third of the size of the new. The males seem fine. The old female seems to really like the new male and they have been together a lot. If the aggression keeps up with the old female, my plan is to move her to my 8.5UK hospital tank for a few days and let the 2 new settle in. I will then radically change the tank, add more caves and then let the old female back in. If that doesn't work out, I dunno yet.
Now then, to the 'proper' cichlids. I am scared of cichlids as I feel the keeper needs to know an awful lot more than I do but I have been flung in at the deep end and will have to do what I can for now. They have gone in the tank and seem ok now. Just checking the place out. Monty at Trimar (the seller) reckons these will be ok in my tank. But I am not sure as I thought only kribs and rams could be considered for a community tank.
Any help/advice etc etc woud be greatly appreciated
Edit: I have replaced the post I put up, this one has more information and is more up to date.
Here's the situation. I got fish sent to me today by accident. They were supposed to go to someone in London but ended up with me here in Newcastle. Instead of 4 peppered cories imagine my surprise when I got:
Pair of albino kribs
Pair of blue limas
Pair of Chromidotilapia finleyi/Benitochromis nigrodorsalis cichlids - Moliwe (?)
They could not be sent back so they are mine free of charge (and my cories will arrive on Thursday
).I have moved my 2 peppered cories from the 16UK tank to my coldwater tank to be with the other 2 cories and the 4 that will arrive next week, and put the blue limas in with my 4 other cories, 6 barbs and 4 otos. I hope this will be ok for now at least.
The kribs and other cichlids have been realeased into my 71UK community tropical tank. Now as you can see from my signature I have a lot of fish in there already but always have perfect levels.
This is where it gets complicated...
You will also see that I already have 2 kribs (non-albino, non-breeding). Since I released the kribs the 2 females have been nose-nose fighting a bit and the original female is being the nasty one. The original female is about half the size of the new and the original male is about a third of the size of the new. The males seem fine. The old female seems to really like the new male and they have been together a lot. If the aggression keeps up with the old female, my plan is to move her to my 8.5UK hospital tank for a few days and let the 2 new settle in. I will then radically change the tank, add more caves and then let the old female back in. If that doesn't work out, I dunno yet.
Now then, to the 'proper' cichlids. I am scared of cichlids as I feel the keeper needs to know an awful lot more than I do but I have been flung in at the deep end and will have to do what I can for now. They have gone in the tank and seem ok now. Just checking the place out. Monty at Trimar (the seller) reckons these will be ok in my tank. But I am not sure as I thought only kribs and rams could be considered for a community tank.
Any help/advice etc etc woud be greatly appreciated
Edit: I have replaced the post I put up, this one has more information and is more up to date.
. So if those cichlids are going to grow more than 3" you better keep a close eye on your smaller fish and make sure those cichlids are well feed...
And we need some pictures of your new babies! 
So the other person got sent another batch of fish aswell?
