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[bigfish]

hey guys,
just wondering wat tank mates you guys keep with your fronties besides calvus and clown loaches (ie other tangs).
keep in mind these are adults.

cheers Anthony

[Lee Hodge]

julidichromis? i think a largish pr of these would be ok in the corner of the tank, just so long as they arent too agrro and will not be a meal size for the fronts, i kept leleupi with mine at one stage.

lee

[yaldaraisamonkey]

Yeh theres a couple of people on cichlid-forum.com who are keeping leleupi with the fronts.

Lee, how did you find the two went together?
Im thinking of doing the same.

[Lee Hodge]

well my situation was only temporary, and in the short time they were together the leleupi stayed right out of the way of the fronts. I think that it was an alright combination, the tank they were in was only a 4 ft so in a 6x2 like yours BF, i think there would be no probs.

lee

[eX024]

I am wondering the same question as well, because I want to start up a tank with frontosa but I want a variety of other fish in there as well.

I've never seen a calvus in perth before apart from one that was not for sale at city farmers do we get them over here ofter or are they rare and expensive? I want one...

[eX024]

I've been checking for a reply on this thread each day but havn't seen one yet

But I just realised I have said what I recommend from my internet research.

These are the fish I've heard you can mix with fronts: Calvus, D.Comps, Lelupi and C.Moorri

[bigfish]

i have some c.moorii with mine at the moment but that is only coz i havn't sold them yet, d.comps would be a very bad idea as they are from lake malawi like the dolphins and require different water conditions to strive.

go out to aquatix in caningvale and have a look at the calvus
cya

[Mazimbwe]

Quote:

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D.Comps, Lelupi and C.Moorri

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...the first and last fish are from lake Malawi...I think you mean the other Alto(compressiceps) and V.moorii(was N.moorii).

HTH

[bigfish]

hey maz one of the sites i was reading said c.moorii as well.

damn people

[00 Electric 00]

Frontosa are a fish which chills all the time and is cool. But i have relized that fast moving malawis are not what they like!!!

[eX024]

yeh I meant A.comp sorry, I have heard that C.moorii go well although I disagree because they are malawi...

What size calvus do you have at Aqautix and how much for?

[bigfish]

i don't have any at aqutix but aquotix has some at bout 10cm-12cm@$85

[eX024]

since researching this a bit more I've had quite a few people say that its best to just keep them in a species tank, because I can't get any straight answers on this maybe keeping them in a single species tank is the best. What does everyone else think, should they only be kept with other fronts?

[bigfish]

get some clown loaches and gibbiceps and stuff like that it mixes up your tank a bit and the fronties won't mind a bit

[lotsoffish]

it would be best in a single species tank but if you wanted other types with it you could try some neolamprologus brichardi