How many tropheus in a 430 liters aquarium?

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How many tropheus in a 430 liters aquarium?

Post by víctor.fernández-de-miguel »

Hello Pam,
I hava a new 430 lits aquarium with 10 red rainbow kasnaga (3 males and 7 females), 4 Kiriza (1 male and 3 females) 4 Moliro (1 male and 3 females) and 2 petrotilapia Chitimba (male and female).
Do you think it´s enough space for all of them?

THIS ARE MAY 3 MAIN AQUARIUMS AND THE NUMBER OS FISHES AND SPECIES I MAINTEIN. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR OPINION
THANKS

430 litros
Tropheus Moliro 4
Petrotilapia Chitimba 2
Tropheus káiser Kiriza 4
red rainbow 10
Total peces 20
Litros/pez 21,50

300 litros
leleupi 1
Protomela Taiwanee 1
Sceanochromis 1
saulosi 4
flavus 2
Maylandia Callainos Nkhata blue 3
Pseudotropheus Npanga 2
MBAMBA BAY 2
Zebra chilumba 2
ALGAE EATERS 1
Total peces 19
Litros/pez 15,79

600 litros
Aulonocara fire fish 1
Caurelus 5
Frontosa 2
Calvus 1
Aulonocara neon 3
Otopharnix chilobites 4
Sceanochromis 4
Melanochromis chipokae 3
Aulonocara Cobue 1
Aulonocara stuartgranti usiya 2
Protomela taeniolatus namalenge 1
Tetrocephalus 1
Aulonocara Baenschi 1
Leleupi 3
Compresiseps 1
ALGAE EATERS 3
Total peces 36
Litros/pez 16,67
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Re: How many tropheus in a 430 liters aquarium?

Post by Pam Chin »

Hi Victor,

I don't think this will last long due to aggression, and you will have a high possibility of your Tropheus cross breeding.

I encourage you to make this tank a species only tank, pick your favorite and go from there.

Tropheus are not cheap, and there is going to be a lot of aggression with (3) different species in this medium size tank. Your tank is too small to also house Petrochromis.

Keep in mind that these mouthbrooding cichlids from Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika are group fish, if you want to observe their natural behaviors keeping them in groups is so much more rewarding. Pairs and trios are not groups, to me a group is at least a dozen or more. Keeping one of everything is okay for "show type" tanks, but if you want to be a serious breeder, you need to house your fish in species only tanks, where you are absolutely sure there is no possibility of contamination, and strive to keep the strains as clean as possible.

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