African Cichlid Tank Mates

[Mturner615]

I currently have a 50g tank with some African Cichlids in it. I was planning on making some additions to the tank, however, I wanted to add some other species. What are some recommendations? Would the Blood Parrots or Discus do well in the same tank?

 

[Helena21]

Im afraid there are not many fish you can put with africans. I have a pair of bristlenosed plecs in with mine and they do fine, but apart from that i really dont think there are any other suitable tank mates

 

[Katie217]

I agree with Helena...Africans are better of with just africans. Discus would get killed for sure, but I'm not too sure if blood parrots would, I've never really researched them so I dont know their agression. Just stick with the africans

 

[Mturner615]

I find that rather sad to hear. I never intentionally would have put Africans in this tank, but since it is my work's fishtank, and I inherited its maintainence, I guess I don't have much of a choice. Thanks.

 

[SinisterKisses]

The only thing that mixes well with African cichlids, are other African cichlids. And even then, there are a lot of species that shouldn't be mixed with others. Sorry, but adding tankmates isn't a good idea.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Don't do blood parrots, thats just supporting the frankinfish.

Agreed with the above, africans to africans. How many are in there now? Any idea on species? Pics?

 

[Hamburgler]

Depending on what species you have and tank setup...you may be able to add some cats. Various syno, pictus....clown loaches but probably too big for that tank since you need a few of them to be happy.
I have a lone pink con in my setup that was a random pickup about a year ago...it does fine. Although i would never add anything else non mbuna.

 

[jessey]

africans can make great tank set-ups, but if you don't want an african cichlid tank, maybe you could exchange them at your LFS for something else?