will convicts go with?

[irjason714]

ok im looking at getting some suitable cichlids and i liked convicts i was wandering if they would go with
55gallon
2 clown loaches
2 silver sharks
2 angle fish
3 jewel cichlids
1 salmon tail catfish
if i have to move any into a different tank i will just tell me wich ones or any other cool cichlids that you would recomend
thanks

 

[colesea]

Severums, Blood Parrots, Rams perhaps, Dwarf Cichlids, Firemouths. Nothing that will be very aggressive. But that's just me, I'm not all about Green Terrors or Jack Dempsies or even Convicts because convicts can be quite nasty at times too. But I would stay with any of your American Cichlids, the African Cichlids need vastly different water chemistries than the fish you already have.

 

[e man]

fishprofiles.com will give you a list of all compatible fish.  Go to the convicts, then look for a link that says something like "compatible fish".

 

[Nativefish Boy]

the African Cichlids need vastly different water chemistries than the fish you already have

convicts are not african, they are central/south american. They might be ok in your tank as long as they don't spawn, then they get nasty. Kribiness would do good in there also, plus they're color full *thumbsupsmiley*

 

[colesea]

I know convicts are SA and not African. I was just making a comment for general referrance because many people believe that all cichlids, no matter where they are from, can all go together because they are all labled "aggressive" fish. And most people like Rift Valley Africans because they are more brightly colored than SA fish. So they get an African and stick it in their SA tank because a cichlid is a cichlid and all cichlids can go together. Not!

The question was what other fish can go in their tank and I would reccommend staying with other SA cichlids (like convicts although I wouldn't put convicts in that mix personally), but not to go out and simply add just any cichlid (like an African because the LFS might say, "sure you can put that in your tank" and then you realize the nice bright pretty red zebra just killed your angels).

Point of referance. Kribs are African cichlids, just not Rift Valley. They come from regions of Africa that are similar in nature to Amazonian SA (I think the specific location are tributaries of the Zarie (aka Congo) river, but I'm not quite sure), which is why they look more like SA cichlids insteady of what most people associate what an African cichlid to look like. Kribs are quite nice, and will probably go great in that combination of fish. Their water chemistires requirements I believe are also very similar to SA fish, and they're not as aggressive as convicts so far as I know, nor get as big. They like lots of little caves to hide and dart around in.

~~Colesea