lisamorie

hiya! i am starting a 30 gal cichlid tank, does anyone have any suggestions for stocking it? i am mostly interested in it being colorful and of course, i want the fish to be compatible! thanks!!

COBettaCouple

Well, we're partial to Angels, but I'd suggest checking out profiles at http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/ to check aggression levels. If you can find these guys:
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profile...es.php?id=1526 - they're beautiful and curious, but a little on the timid side. They'd probably go well with a couple of top-swimming small african cichlids with mild temperments.

lisamorie

those are gorgeous, i hadn't seen them before. thanks!

outlaw

Cant really recommend as I just started a few months with ours but make sure to read about them first, especially their size. I was just reading today and the avg. is about 2-10" long. Obviously not something you want in a 30Gal. I currently have 1 Male Yellow Lab and 4 Red Fins, the Yellow Lab is very bright and neat to look at. I would recommend them .

Angela_96

Take a look at my pics I just posted on my mbunas and peacocks... my peacock tank is a 36 bow (we only have 5 peacocks maxing out at 7)... the mbunas we have 9 but will end up w/ 15 you can have about 10 in a 29-30 g tank you def want to overstock mbunas.... and overfilter the tank. The peacocks I am doing an all male tank.... they are VERY colorful!

Or you could get some german rams and gold rams w/ some angel fish (they are no where near as active as africans though)

lisamorie

those are gorgeous, thanks so much for the idea!!

Allie

I would go with dwarf mbuna, nothing that gets bigger than 5" at the most...most haps/peacocks get too big/aggressive to be in a 30g for life.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profile...gory.php?cat=2
Here's a site for some species and here is a link to different ideas to put in your tank
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/article...cutter_29g.php