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    Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

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    crabby-girl

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    Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by crabby-girl on Fri 10 Apr 2009, 16:05

    I was going to get rid of my Metriaclimia Greshakei but my boyfriend wants too keep him. (I think it's a male-I pretty sure we discovered that already) So were going to set up an African tank. He's housed with my JD's right now. He is growing alot faster than the JD's. There is also a rainbow shark and a do jo loach in with them. There all still fairly young.

    Let's say a 55 gallon how many Africans is a good #, I will also put a do jo loach and possibly a shark in with them. Cam I really like your blue African....any ideas or advise... Idea Idea Question Question as you know I'm fairly new too the aggressive fish. Have the semi-aggressive down pat.     lol!
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    Re: Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by Cam on Fri 10 Apr 2009, 23:16

    Well, in keeping your Greshakei,..you would want to stick to
    an all male tank,..mixing of Haps and Mbuna is risky,..in the
    wild Mbuna are rock dwelling and hide in wait for young Haps
    and it's lunch time, so, they by nature don't do well together.
    you might try a Hap tank and keep only the Greshakei, but there
    will allways be territorial disputes,..nothing serious "likely"
    More importantly,..if going with Africans, stick to that and try
    not to mix in any CA Cichlids in there. There are some Amazing
    looking Haps available,..you can find some in trios relatively
    cheap on Ebay,..i wouldn't go more than 8,..some may disagree
    but aggression is decreased in numbers,..heres a couple of links
    to some,..
    http://cgi.ebay.com/3-African-Cichlid-Christmas-Fulus-RARE_W0QQitemZ290308701228QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item290308701228&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1546%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A4%7C294%3A50
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Live-Freshwater-Fish-4-Venustus-African-Cichlid_W0QQitemZ250403514666QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250403514666&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1546%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A7%7C294%3A50
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Live-Freshwater-Fish-4-Taiwan-Reef-Cichlid_W0QQitemZ250403526145QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250403526145&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1546%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A7%7C294%3A50
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Live-Freshwater-Fish-4-Red-Peacock-African-Cichlid_W0QQitemZ250403524717QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250403524717&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1546%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A7%7C294%3A50
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Live-Freshwater-Fish-4-Super-VC-10-Hap-Milomo-Cichlid_W0QQitemZ250403522630QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250403522630&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1546%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A7%7C294%3A50
    These guys often times will mix and match to make a special order
    for you and combine shipping,..
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    Re: Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by crabby-girl on Sat 11 Apr 2009, 02:23

    Thanks Cam will do...gonna go with the haps...I got so many setups that I wanna do lol! . This will probably one of the first 2. I also really wanna do a pygo set up as well. LOVE that ablino dwarf pygo.haahhahhahahahahaha
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    Re: Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by Metal Maniac on Sat 11 Apr 2009, 11:02

    crabby-girl wrote:I was going to get rid of my Metriaclimia Greshakei but my boyfriend wants too keep him. (I think it's a male-I pretty sure we discovered that already) So were going to set up an African tank. He's housed with my JD's right now. He is growing alot faster than the JD's. There is also a rainbow shark and a do jo loach in with them. There all still fairly young.

    Let's say a 55 gallon how many Africans is a good #, I will also put a do jo loach and possibly a shark in with them. Cam I really like your blue African....any ideas or advise... Idea Idea Question Question as you know I'm fairly new too the aggressive fish. Have the semi-aggressive down pat.     lol!


    Hey crabby-girl,

    What size setup were you thinking about for the Africans???


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    Re: Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by crabby-girl on Sat 11 Apr 2009, 13:57

    Metal Maniac wrote:
    crabby-girl wrote:I was going to get rid of my Metriaclimia Greshakei but my boyfriend wants too keep him. (I think it's a male-I pretty sure we discovered that already) So were going to set up an African tank. He's housed with my JD's right now. He is growing alot faster than the JD's. There is also a rainbow shark and a do jo loach in with them. There all still fairly young.

    Let's say a 55 gallon how many Africans is a good #, I will also put a do jo loach and possibly a shark in with them. Cam I really like your blue African....any ideas or advise... Idea Idea Question Question as you know I'm fairly new too the aggressive fish. Have the semi-aggressive down pat.     lol!


    Hey crabby-girl,

    What size setup were you thinking about for the Africans???

    55 gallon
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    Re: Starting an African Cichlid Aquarium!!

    Post by Metal Maniac on Mon 13 Apr 2009, 23:09

    Very Nice!


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