Overhaul

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HAPPY EASTER!

I am thinking of overhauling my 29 gallon tank to a Lake Tangyika tank. Please let me know what you think of my planned stocking or please provide possible suggestions.

1 pair Paracyprichromis Nigripinnis
1 pair Juliodochromis Ornatus
1 pair Neolamprologus Leleupi
 

Orion

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I only have rocks in the tank with a lot of little caves, do you still think I should drop the paracyps?
No, I personally think you should drop the neolamps like I said. They can be nippy buggers and aggressive when breeding. It sounds like you want to have a mini-community, and this would be a better way to go about it with the other fish you had mentioned.

I just mentioned that about the paracyps for your information.
 

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Generally julies and calvus do well together in smaller tanks, that's why I suggested it. 29 gallons isn't a lot to work with, so you just have to be careful from the beginning with stocking, and everything will work out much better in the long run.

You could always do a species only tank with one of the smaller neolamps like the lelupi or brichardi. And I have heard of people keeping julies and lelupi in 29gallon tanks before with no other fish and things be OK, but leluip can be iffy and it depends on the personality of the fish. So what might work for you might end up a disaster for me. I've not tried that myself, so I can't speak much on it.

With the julies, you could get away with some of the more fiesty shell dwellers like some of the occies or even maybe some of the multies, but i wouldn't expect a large amount of fry to survive from either.
 

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Each of which fish? I tossed out several. The answer depends on which fish we're talking about, but for the julies and neolamps (other than some shellies) 1:1 is good. Depending on the shellies, you might want 1:3 male to female. And I'm not real sure on the paracyps, but I know for normal cyprichromis you want about 4 or more females to every male. But I don't think this carries over to paracyps.