Community cichlids?!?!

[dawhits]

HI
I have a large community tank and was wondering if there are any cichlids that could live in this tank.
-Erik

 

[Firebug]

Well, I have found that angelfish are a good community cichlid, but not if you have small fish or nippy fish...German blue rams (or even Bolivian rams) also make a good community cichlid (so long as there aren't any other cories, otherwise they will bully or be bullied on).

 

[karma_llama]

I have had single kribs (both male and female) living happily in a community aquarium with no problems. Ans as firebug suggested, rams are okay, my bolivian rams are very good with the other fish.

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

My rams are the most peaceful fish in my community tank, sharing the gallonage with cories, tetras, loaches, killifish, mollies, SAE, CAE, RTS, gouramis, etc...

I would definitely stick to a dwarf cichlid, like one of the varieties of rams or the small aspistos.

 

[RobD]

My rams, when they were alive, were only aggressive with each other. And even then, it was just spats. Just don't cram too many into the tank. A pair would "claim" half of my 46bf tank as their territory, so 1.5'x1.5' square. I tried 6 at one time, almost all females. They would "push" the least dominant one into the middle and upper regions of the tank. There they are stressed, don't eat, and don't last long.

I have also read that keyhole cichlids are suppose to be on the pretty tame side. I'm thinking of trying some of those for my 90 gallon, once I get it operational. Especially now that I'm down to only 1 ram, and haven't been able to find any of good coloring around. Seems everybody wants to sell those plain ones that just don't color up.

I agree on the angels as well, but don't keep them with neons (natural food).

 

[Cichlid-Man]

How large are we talking here? What other community fish do you have already?

As others have stated Angels, Kribs, Rams, and one of my personal choices Apistogramma (although never kept them, this is what i'd keep). If you want to take it a step further and feel confident enough then you can throw Discus into the mix (pending other species in the tank and size).

 

[dawhits]

I have a 30 gallon with a gourami, 2 zebra danios, 2 plecos , some large platys and 2 koi but they are just until my pond gets warm enough to put them in there.
-Erik

 

[Exevious]

I had two Kenyi in with 3 pictus and 5 red-eye tetra....

No problems at all..

I ended up trading my Kenyi for 3 Eletric yellow labs... still no sign of trouble.

 

[Brockway]

I had some kenyi before and they would pick off the danios one by one. Kenyi would do better in a 55g species due to need for crowding to control aggression. Angels seem to be fine as long as the other fish aren't close to mouth size. Mine hunted down some tiger barbs I added a month or so ago. Now I've got a fat angel and 1 very scared barb. Kribs are fine as long as its just schooling fish in there. I had a pair (girl is probably still in my 29 with eggs somewhere), and they are quite aggressive in defending their territory. Single they're fairly peaceful. So one'd work with your gourami (mine got along fine). On that note, the only fish I've had thats tougher to catch than a scared krib is a scared convict >_<

 

[CAPSLOCK]

An angel would work in there, providing it started off small. It'll grow up with the smaller fish, and won't see them as food. If you want more than one cichlid in there, you'd have to go for something smaller, though.