Cichlids

Hi all, so I finally got a bigger tank...upgraded from a 80l to 240l and I am very happy I did and so are my fish.
So my questions to all of you are will be as follows, but firstly a list of what I have;

• 4 - orange coulered Malawi's
• 2 - Electric yellow mallawi's
• 1 - Blue/greyish colour malawi
• 1 - albino malawi
• 3 - pirhana looking fish, they have this pinkish colour
• 2 - clown loaches
• 2 - algae eaters
• 1 - big pleaco(think thats how you spell it)
• 1 - angel which is very big
• 1 - glass fish
• 1 - dwarf gourami(hope the spelling is correct)
• 1 - one fish I only found out recently is on the blacklist( I'll keep it till the day it dies)

So my questions to you guys will be what fish can I keep with the fish I have now and how many fish can one keep in a 240l tank?
I run two 900l /hr filters aswell, if this helps.

thanks in advance

 

If they are fully grown then maybe just a few more malawis, like 4 or 5. I dont know exactly but I do know that malawis need to be stocked as heavily as possible to avoid agression.

I think you might get away with some other kind of fish in there.

 

@Reedfish,
So I spoke to the petshop from where i bought the malawis and I returned them and got some more peaceful fish and I doubt I'll go with malawi's. Thanks.

 

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@Reedfish
@oscar freak

The stock list now looks as follows;

• 2 - Green Tiger Barbs
• 2 - Ruby Tiger Barbs
• 3 - Tiger Barbs
• 1 - Big Gourami
• 2 - Rainbow fish
• 3 - pirhana looking fish, they have this pinkish colour - Found out they are Widows.
• 2 - clown loaches
• 2 - algae eaters
• 1 - big pleco(think thats how you spell it)
• 1 - small pleco
• 1 - angel which is very big
• 1 - glass fish
• 1 - dwarf gourami(hope the spelling is correct)
• 1 - Kribisis(hope i spelled correctly)
• 2 - Paradisefish (Think thats what you call them)
• 1 - Corby(hope its what you call it)

So what do you think?

 

ok im dof been postin in the wrong thread lol sorry.it is a mixed bag you have there.a few things i can see there are the cory must be lonely they like being in groups,and angels and tiger barbs are not the best of friends generally.

 

@oscar freak

I am looking for more cory fish but cant find any. I must say the barbs and the angel doesnt bother each other at all. So far it all seems fine...

 

which kind of cory do you have?post some pics so we can see.

 

@oscar freak
here is a pic of the same one

 

looks like a peppered cory?

 

you can mix the species as well

 

@oscar freak

So any cory will be able to mix with mine? How many clown loaches should i keep together and how many glass fish?

 

how big is your tank,something like 1.2m?

 

@oscar freak

Yeah Its 1.2m in lenth, Im not sure about the other dimensions.

 

Bump

 

Ok,I'm busy watering the garden so I got some time.what algae eaters besides the plecos?

 

The plecos can grow to 12inchs each very quickly and they're no wallflowers they can easily turn your tank upside down and make the clown loaches miserable especiallly if they arelready stressed being alone though I heard once they do shoal with tiger barbs

 

Plecos are probably 1st of not 2nd after oscars when it comes to placing stress on the bio filters so lots of water changes