Recent content by jkrumholz

From my experience, unless you're TRYING to raise fry, you generally lose most of them very quickly. But cross breeding is basically unavoidable in a community style cichlid tank. If you really don't want fry, put a Venustus in there. They LOVE to eat babies....

it's tough to conclusively ID with juvenile fish. (with many species, it's tough to ID adults). This is why many LFS just have "assorted africans" in a tank. It wouldn't be too surprising if you got a different Aulonocara species than you thought, or even, sometimes a hybrid. I wouldn't...

I keep both as well. I keep the tank relatively crowded, and it reduces the agression levels quite a bit. I've never had fighting problems between the Mbuna and Peacocks in my tanks, which is more than I can say for intraspecific competition!

I have some plants in my Mbuna tank. I've had the most success with various types of vals, but anubias will also grow. The problem is two fold. 1) finding plants that are pH tolerant, and 2) finding plants that the cichlids won't dig up. Africans tend to shuffle the gravel around a lot, and...