New fish

[Cecil2010]

Hello,
Currently I have 4 African cichlids and I want more but all of the lfs around me sell their cichlids at about 2 inches and all of mine are mature at about 3.5-4 inches. I've talked to the people that work there and they can order bigger fish for me but I don't want to pay 30(exaggeration) for a mature fish.

I've heard that If you was to introduce smaller fish than you could do things like introduce them after turning the lights off or to change the layout of the tank and things like that.

Any suggestions on introducing smaller fish in an established tank?

Thank you

 

[Fishie]

I'm in a situation like you and my fish are around that size and when I bought a small red zebra I turned off the lights to introduce him. It worked too! I got 2 small fish and the rest are pretty good size. So lights off worked for me! You could rearrange the tank to switch up territories need tried it but heard it works.