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[Pellet113]

Ok my tank has been cycling for a while. Meaning a year or two with one fish, who is gone now. My pH is 7.6, my buffing captivity is 90 a bit low, Nitrite .05, nitrate 30, and pmm hardness 250. Is this suitable for jewel, lab, rusty, and acei chiclid. It is a 25 gallon with lots of slate caves and structures and some plants and decor. It has a 200 wat. heater and power 10 aqueon filter.Will this stock work and what should i add or fix. Also, how to introduce them(when, what age, and how many at a time):

-2 jewel chiclid
-1 BN pleco
-1 yellow lab chiclid
-1 yellow tail acei
-1 red zebra
-1 albino powder blue chiclid or rusty chiclid.

Also, i have gravel substrate. Thanks!

 

[DanTheFishMan11]

correct me if im wrong but do malawi cichlids not need sand ??

 

[Pellet113]

I'm not sure! Thats one of the big q's I've heard mixes answer.

 

[Pellet113]

bump

 

[Pellet113]

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[erk628]

I have a feeling your going to have some aggression issues.

 

[Pellet113]

How can I fix it?

 

[Aquascaper]

If you post in the cichlid section of the forum you may get a better response.

From what I know most cichlids need to be overstocked to reduce aggression and your filter is only just managing x4 turnover, this would need to be around x10 in such a small tank.

As for the stocking suggestion, I don't know enough about cichlids to answer with any confidence, hence the suggestion of posting in the cichlid section.