Cichlid Mbuna question
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Technically you can, but there are things to watch out for. Like for example mbuna are mainly herbivores while peacocks/haps are carnivores. Peacocks and haps also get bigger than mbuna and tend to swim in open space rather than occupying the rocky areas where mbunas like to be. You could keep them together if you had a pretty large tank, like 75 gallons and over or whatever, but it would be easier to keep them together if you had more peaceful mbunas in there with them. Sometimes they don't mix but if they have their own space, enough of it, and you keep on eye on what everyones eating it's doable.
great advice by twiggles,you could bolster up for plants too which generate territorial behaviour but also hiding places,in respect to the peacocks the mbuna are a more docile and fragile species that prefer grazing amongst plant cover,but beware they tend to demolish certain plants, as opposed to constant swimming like the peackocks,in my experience they can co exist but with caution,
Regards Rotkeil
Regards Rotkeil