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slayton35
07-22-2008, 09:55 AM
Okay, I have a 50 gallon rectangular tank that is now cycled and I have some fish in it already.

1 yellow lab (unknown gender)
1 possible johanni hybrid
3 jewel cichlids
3 auratus (1 male/blue and 2 female/yellow)
2 cobalt blue
1 kribensis (which i have been trying to take out to relocate but cannot catch)
1 acei (unknown gender)
1 crayfish
2 upsidedown catfish
2 common plecos (I may relocate one to my friends new tank)

I recently added to albino cichlid but they were both unfortunately mauled within a day (one was found in the jewel cichlids mouth)

If any of these fish seem incompatible I will give them back to the lfs but I am looking to see what fish I should put in and which i should remove, if possible.

I would like my tank to be as colorful and compatible as possible.
Thanks

St. Louis Cichlid
07-23-2008, 09:39 AM
I am not much help with your question but rather wanted to know how the Crayfish is with the fish. Is it a blue crayfish?

slayton35
07-23-2008, 01:32 PM
not a blue one, those are 30 dollars at the lfs as compared to a normal one for 3. Right now he hasnt really gone after any of them as far as i know and they seemed to have left him alone.

Jesus Juice
07-27-2008, 12:10 PM
Are you trying to aim for an mbuna tank? If so, I'd take out the Krib, it will surely be killed, the auratus are nasty fish, I had one and it killed more than a fe fish. I would definatly take out the auratus too.
Add a few more labs maybe they seem to like being in groups (I find at least), then maybe decide on more 2 species of mbuna then 4 or 5 of each species (assuming thats what your going for). With the colbalt zebras, I would add in another 2 or 3 also.

I would also take out the crayfish, I've heard that they hunt fish at night.

SNAILOS
08-06-2008, 03:33 PM
Your tank is balanced for the deaths has occured already but it seems stable and the biotope will be functioning asswell.Nice selection.If you have only one breading pair then you will be able to spawn because of the agrression from the the one male that is fixed on the competing species and not on all of his roaming females.The bad side of auratus are that the male will attack and kill his own seedlings as fry when spawned into the biotope.The crayfish is surely your desire wich i won't give advice on it is in your hands.Catfish are nocturnal fish and will devour young fry when in the biotope.Your filtration will be off outmost importance for the water will be clouded with population and then your carbonates will be depleting quick but a water change every saturday will insure that the water quality are high grade and not unstable.

I believe that your tank are amazing .The aggression levels are at the moment thinned down to a minimum and that your females are roaming.I believe aswell that soon there will be spawning if the biotope and species are ripe.