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Old 19-02-2008, 07:00 PM
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sajica will mug your guppies. I used to feed mine guppies as a treat so probably should avoid them to be on the safe side.

Most cichlids will have a go at guppies. You might be alright with any of the anomala (i recommend N. Anomala, "blue faced dwarf cichlid), apistogramma. Kribs might go for the guppies and rams might as well. Problem with cichlids is they are pretty intelligent and as such have personalities. So two individuals of the same species may behave in completely different ways.

festivum, daemons and severums will not live with guppies unless you are very lucky
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Old 19-02-2008, 08:07 PM
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There are a fair few south american dwarf cichlids but they have better lifes if your water is soft not hard.Your local aquatic center shoud beable to tell you if your water is hard or soft if you take some to them.If you have soft water there's quite a list to choose from.Dwarf Cichlid Photos

Bolivian ram cichlid-(MICROGEOPHAGUS ALTISPINOSUS) are very hardy and do well in hard or soft water types.And are a non aggressive species.

Bolivian ram's.



There is ofcourse the kribensis cichlids-(PELVICACHROMIS PULCHER).The down side is that some breeding pairs take things a bit to far and some pair have been known to kill each other.But if you get the right pair there's no
problem with them there normal colour and a morph colour-(ALBINO).

Normal krib.


Albino krib.

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just bought two lovly normal kribs!would of got albinos as i liked them better but they didnt have any
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sajica will mug your guppies. I used to feed mine guppies as a treat so probably should avoid them to be on the safe side.

Most cichlids will have a go at guppies. You might be alright with any of the anomala (i recommend N. Anomala, "blue faced dwarf cichlid), apistogramma. Kribs might go for the guppies and rams might as well. Problem with cichlids is they are pretty intelligent and as such have personalities. So two individuals of the same species may behave in completely different ways.

festivum, daemons and severums will not live with guppies unless you are very lucky
i kept my sajica with wc blue guppies with no problems. as long as the guppies stayed away when they were breeding/had fry it was fine. and in a 5 tank where 1 side is rocky with flowerpots for spawning, and shallower like a bank and the other is planted and deep that was no problem
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well ino its not ideal but i have various cichlids in with community fish, i have various malawi cichlids a few firemouths a coupe of kribensis, an eastern european ram and there all fine in with guppys, neon tetras harlequins, flying foxes etc
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well ino its not ideal but i have various cichlids in with community fish, i have various malawi cichlids a few firemouths a coupe of kribensis, an eastern european ram and there all fine in with guppys, neon tetras harlequins, flying foxes etc
wait til the malawis mature.

seriously, in a few months you will have a tank with a few malawi chiclids in... nothing else.

also, they need a very high pH... which you cant possibly have in your tank.

I suggest you get rid of everything except the ram, neons, guppys and harlequins.
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Old 09-03-2008, 05:33 PM
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nope had them in there for 2 , 2 and half years so im not gna change now,

appreciate the advice tho m8
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Old 09-03-2008, 05:35 PM
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well ino its not ideal but i have various cichlids in with community fish, i have various malawi cichlids a few firemouths a coupe of kribensis, an eastern european ram and there all fine in with guppys, neon tetras harlequins, flying foxes etc
yea, that is a little more than not ideal.

malawi's need lots of rocks, and very hard alkaline water
ram needs soft slightly acidic water - and with those cichlids in there it wont be there for long
firemouths will kick the bollocks out of everything, and need neutral water, poss slightly alkaline
neons, harlequins and guppies wont be in there for long

i would really suggest you sell some of them - i would sell the malawi and firemouths as they arent suited to the aquarium you describe, and quite frankly it is poor husbandry, as they (malawi's) need specific care
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well they have all been in the same tank for around 2 and a half years and maybe 1 guppy has died so i think im ok,


i appreciate your advice though, thank you
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Kribs will as i have done it, also RAMS, butthe rams fight with each other whan i had them, the i swaped my cumminity tank for a malwi tank.
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