White Cichlid

[DanL]

I stop at my local Petco lastnight looking at some supplies and of course and to take a look at their selection of fish since this was the first time that I ever stop at Petco...

In one of their tanks they had a couple of pure white cichlids mixed in with some other cichlid but they had the tank labeled as "Various Cichlids"

does anyone know what kind of cichlid it was? it was all white and the body and fins are similar to a krib except the dorsal fin wasnt as big as a krib's...

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I would guess it was a Mixed African.......aka a Mbuna from Lake Malawi in Africa.

Most of those "Mixed Cichlids" are Mbunas

 

[DanL]

would one of these fit in with the rest of my fish?

 

[Cichlid-Man]

IDK if it is indeed a Mbuna they get to about 6" or so. You already have a good bit of fish in that tank and some smalls ones at that.

That Mbuna might have a All you can eat Buffet.

If indeed you are talking about putting him in your 72gal Bowfront

Also Mbunas like to be in groups.

It'd be best to just setup a Mbuna/Malawi cichlid tank.

 

[DanL]

yup, I was found a read an article online about them and how aggresive they can be.... I was just curious, it was a really nice looking fish...

I am already waiting for my white clouds to get eaten, that blue gularis killie that I have has a very large mouth...

A friend of my wife is coming to get my 3 female black mollies, I want them out of the tank. When I finally get my other two tanks set up I am going to track down a supplier of cockatoo cichlids. I plan on buying 2 males and 2 females. I am going to rotate the males between the 72 and 30 gal tanks to hopefully get a good variety of fry...

 

[wayne]

I would suggest you have a think about your cichlids before you buy anymore. What are blue neon, gold and blue face cichlids - I would guess malawi of some sort, maybe mbuna. These are alreaddy pretty aggressive, and prefer hard , alkaline water. The krib and bolivian ram aren't too fussy, but would prefer neutral to slightly acid soft (as would cockatoos), and the chromide ideally gets brackish water. IN the long run this combo will be trouble, especially as the malawi will, I suspect , start to hammer the other fish, including the other cichlids and killies. I don't think it matter that it's quite a large tank, it will still happen.
The white cichlid was probably an albino mbuna, pretty poor quality and possibly a cross. Not a good buy in my opinion.
Your chances of getting a cockatoo spawn in the above are pretty low, and the chances of growing out any fry are zero. I know you can breed and grow cockatoos in community tanks, but not with all those other cichlids, and the killies. Rebuild the 20 or 30 with them plus some tetras or something - I've bred hundreds of them like that.