Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
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Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
A friend of mine has just set up a 40gallon Lake Malawi Cichlid tank so far has 3 Yellow labs and wants to know what type of African Catfish he can put with them. If anybody can give any recommendation that would be great.
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
I would not recommend S. angelica for a rift lake cichlid tank. Any of the Tanganyikan synos should do fine, however. S. lucipinnis are relatively inexpensive and get along well in a mbuna tank.
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
Why mix synos from tanganyika to a malawi tank??? You can get a propper malawi cat: synodontis njassae...
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
This is by far the best option IMHOMark Panaque wrote:Why mix synos from tanganyika to a malawi tank??? You can get a propper malawi cat: synodontis njassae...
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
Why not? Most of the Tanganyikan synos will do fine with Malawian cichlids. If the goal is to have a purely Malawian tank, then S. njassae is the way to go. However, the OP didn't ask for Malawian catfish recommendations. They asked for African Catfish recommendations. And so much for that.Mark Panaque wrote:Why mix synos from tanganyika to a malawi tank???
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
Agreed lucipinnis are a great starter syno. Multis may interfere with cichlid breeding, but hopefully you would end up with baby multisScleropages wrote:I would not recommend S. angelica for a rift lake cichlid tank. Any of the Tanganyikan synos should do fine, however. S. lucipinnis are relatively inexpensive and get along well in a mbuna tank.
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Re: Catfish for lake Malawi cichlids
I would like to ask you what "so far" means. What other cichlids do you plan on adding? S. njassae gets 7-8 inches, so only a couple 4-5 inch cichlids could be added.