reef dude

Hi
I want to set up a small chiclid tank 50 litres would it be posible to have any fish in it?
what rocks sand do i need?
what fish could I get and would and aqua clear filter work?
cheers

Lucy

I'm not knowledgable about chiclid's but until someone who knows more comes along heres a link to you can do some research:

For cichlid newbies:How to set up cichlid tanks

Good luck

mathas

While most cichlids grow far too large for a tank of that size, the following options should do fine: http://cichlidforum.com/articles/cookie_cutter_10g.php

And AquaClear filters are great... I don't see why that would be a problem at all.

Angela_96

If you are talking about liters and not gallons, there isn't any cichilds that would go in that tank.
If its gallons and not liters than there are a few species that would go. Such as some malawi cichilds, lake tang cichilds, (african), jack dempsys, etc.

reef dude

on a web site in my contry a person was selling a 20 litre tank with a convict and two electric yellows.
she said they had lived togther for a year...

Angela_96

Electric yellows are malawi mbuna, from Africa. They require at least a 30-40g tank. They should never be mixed with any other cichilds from any other lake. Convicts are not from lake malawi.

They may have lived together for that long, but they both require different water qualities, the malawi mbuna likes hard water, with a 7.8+ pH. Plus the cichlids cannot thrive in a tank that size.

reef dude

I had a re think and think I buy a 30g long tank what cichlids could I have then could I have a small community?
cheers

fishex.

i just got some cichlids and when i got them i found out they had babies already and the male let them come out of his mouth there so small and they usually stay in the males mouth i got a 10 gallon for them theres only two. so they made a nest but the fry grew up a little so im going to sell them there really small

Angela_96

Male cichilds do not hold fry, the females do.

fishex.

oh well i guess i just mixed them up you were right i just looked at them this morning the female had them the females have orange spots
thanks for correcting me.

fishex.

hey um do they eat fish like plecos or no

fishex.

thanx and how do you get an avatar

Angela_96

The plecos are touch and go w/ cichilds, I have had a common pleco w/ my malawi cichilds and it did fine, I ended up getting rid of it because it requires a bigger tank (like 75g+). I personally would go w/ syn. species, they are from lake malawi.
All other fish are non compatable w/ malawi cichilds.

For an avatar go to my settings it will see an option on your user page to choose and avatar. My avatar is one of my yellow labs, its a female.

fishex.

thanx so much the avatar i have is the convict cichlids there the type of fish i got that i talked about earlier

Slug

Like said above, all of the species listed here can go in a sub 50 liter tank.

http://cichlidforum.com/articles/cookie_cutter_10g.php

The bigger you go the more options you have. 40 liters is about your limit for how small you can go, and even then that can only keep certain species listed in the link above.

Evaluate the space your tank is going in. Determine your max size tank that you can care for and house. Then decide what species you want from that. Or if you have ample amounts of room, pick a species and adjust tank size to fit that species. I suggest deciding for sure what size tank you want first then picking species to live in it.

fishex.

my corycatfish got over ick without treatment