Douglas4701
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Is this okay, is it naughty? Do the fish care?
Douglas4701 said:I have all lake Malawi cichlids except for a duboisi from Tang. They are all young -inch to inch half-. Should I rid of the dubosi or eh?
kay-bee19 said:I have a colony of tropheus in with my mbuna's in a 125gal with practically zero issues. The tropheus and mbuna's have very similar dietary requirements and temperaments and in my tank ignore each other for the large part.
The first tropheus introduced into this tank was a female tropheus duboisi which I acquired when I responded to a 'free african cichlids' ad in my area. The duboisi came included with three pseudotropheus demasoni's that were being given away. I was only interested in the demasoni's but the lady insisted I take all the fish she had (she had acquired a used aquarium set up which included these africans, but she was only interested in tropical community fish which she wanted to stock as soon as all the cichlids were taken).
The duboisi was completely ignored by the mbuna's in my tank and has been living with them since 2007 with little issue. ('little issue'=maybe once or twice a month this duboisi will initiate short duration pursuits towards mbuna's with zero physical contact; activity of this sort occurs on a daily basis among the mbuna's themselves).
A couple of years after that I acquired a group of about 16 Tropheus sp. black 'Bemba' juvies and added them to this same tank. They've been completely ignored by mbuna's and vice versa since 2009.