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Title: what types of Malawi's can be kept together in breeding set up
Post by: sniggir on September 08, 2018, 02:19:03 PM

Hey all just a quick question about breeding, My wife and I are getting closer to setting up the fish room and are wondering if it is pissible to have 2 different spicies in the same tank with out having hybrids. like say red empress and then have bi-500 peacocks, we want to keep strains pure but also would like to breed as many species as possible atm we are up to 14 and would love to increase that

Title: Re: what types of Malawi's can be kept together in breeding set up
Post by: Jody on September 08, 2018, 05:09:21 PM

Hi Sniggir,

If you pick very different looking species that aren't closely related to each other and have decent breeding groups of each you are unlikely to have any hybridization.
So a lot of the protomelas and aulonocara work well, or some of the milder mbuna and red empress.
Jody

Title: Re: what types of Malawi's can be kept together in breeding set up
Post by: sniggir on September 09, 2018, 09:09:19 AM

Thanks Jody! that helps alot, especially cause we are really trying to breed alot of different malawi species

OVAS

Aquarist Forums => Freshwater General Discussions => Cichlids => Topic started by: sniggir on September 08, 2018, 02:19:03 PM