Angela_96

I have currently:
Red Zebra blue variety and pink-friendly species
Cynatilapia Afra Hai reef-friendly/quiet species
Pseudo Polit-super aggressive,not a begainer cichild
Flametail Peacocks-very peaceful
Ruben Red Peacocks-very peaceful
Red Top Hongi-females fight when ready to spawn
Yellow Labs-peaceful
Kenyi-super aggressive, not a begainer cichild
Tropheops "black dorsal" very aggressive, not a begainner cichild
Ice Blue Greyshaki-aggressive, less than the kenyi
Pseudo Flavus-aggressive
Cobalt blue zebra peaceful
Pseudo Elongatus-into everyones business, but non aggressive

Have kept and sold:
Psuedo Crabro-my experence was peaceful,however its an aggressive guy
Socolofi-peaceful, this one was killed by kenyi during spawning
yellow tail acei-peaceful
red top zebra-peaceful
mel aurartus-gave back to petstore/this cichlid will kill anything in the tank!
strawberry peacocks-gave away species is a hybrid
yellow peacocks-peaceful
nyasse peacoks-peaceful
OB Zebra-peaceful
OB peacock-gave away because species is a hybrid

I have also learned not to trust hybrid species. Ob Peacocks are a combo of mbuna and a peacock. Mine was on the aggressive side.

Its 23 species that I have kept! No wonder I can only dedicate one tank to guppies (purple moscow that is, and I am overloaded w/ fry from them) then my biocube being salty.

I am planning to get rid of my hongi breeding group once the females spit (they spawned last week) one male kenyi because I have one "breeder" quality already, a lot of yellow lab fry, polit fry, afra fry, kenyi fry, hongi fry. I am also getting rid of my last peacock cichilds.

I am hoping to get a bunch more of the black dorsal tropheops to breed w/ my male, and another afra species, I like the jalo reef.

FL CommunityFans

that's just overload woman!

BlowPhish

That's quite the list. It looks like you're keeping the more aggressive guys now. Do they get along alright?

Angela_96

Yea, I am having no problems with violence in the tank. Occasionally the king kenyi male (he runs my 55g) will get in a mouth fight with the other males, but actually never anything bad. Its more of a "hey this is my tank" reminder. Just learning the combos to keep together is the goal, and having a lot of patience. I have learned some species just cannot stay I will move them in with others in other tanks if it don't work out they are gone, and some need to go to another tank.