I Think It's A Cichlid?

[andy d]

Hello

Just joined. I've had tropical fish for quite a few years but not sure what to do with this guy?
I've mostly had a load of different community fish in the past but now I just have this fish and a catfish. It's looking a bit bear so I went to the shop to get some new fish but was advised I'd struggle to introduce anything as they didnt have anything big enough for my ph level.

I don't treat the water at the moment so I assume the ph is around 8.

What is this fish?

 

[Davo86]

Its a Labidochromis Caeruleus also known as electric yellow lab
Suitable tankmates will really only consist of other mbuna cichlids and smaller plecs or Syndontis Catfish

 

[Bert]

What size tank do you have?

 

[andy d]

Thanks.

It's 3ft. Not sure of litres?

 

[stang1]

You could only really house other Malawi Cichlids with your fish and you wouldn't have room for many as a 4ft+ is recommended for this type of set up.
It might be worth adding another 3-4 Yellow Labs but you couldn't add much else.

 

[Repeat]

I love my electric yellow <3 He gets along with all of his other cichlid "buddies" like my dempsey, venustus, and parrots. But hey thats just my experience

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

I think you can keep a group of yellow labs in a 30 gallon? I read about it somewhere. But of course that's just about it. Only the labs.

And TBH, based on my experience of them, I think it would be possible.

PS: Yours looks great! Good color!

 

[juanveldez]

I have used them as dithers with my larger new worlds but I would like to eventually set up a really good african set up sometime but I got so many other projects going right now that I can't