What's compatable with Nijsseni

[Glasgowa]

I have a 190 litre tank (101x40x55cm) which, due to various problems and issues with other tanks, now houses the following:

2 Apistogramma nijsseni
4 Keyhole's
13 Cradinal Tetra's
5 Diptail Pencil's
3 Clown Plec's
4 Ott's

PH - 6.5
Temp - 26
NO3 - 5
NO2 - 0
NH3 - 0

The Nijsseni (1 male 1 female) are totally ignored by the keyholes and the pair seem to ignore each other apart from maybe 5 mins a day where the female seems to chace the male. Don't know if this is chasing away or chasing after.
Anyway I was wondering with the tank set up/stock if I was able to introduce any more dwarf cichlids and if so what would be compatable with the Nijsseni.
The tank has lots of amazon sword plants, bogwood, rocks and substract is silica sand.
Any information/advice would be grately appreciated.

I've attached some photo's of the tank, can't get the lighting of the camara right though, 1st one is without flash 2nd is with and 3rd is the day the Nijsseni went in.

Cheers

Andrew

 

[ed seeley]

Hi Andrew,
Sorry to hear you've had a few issues.

To be honest I'd leave the cichlid stocking as is. I've never kept Keyholes but if a pair of them and the pandas breed then your tank will be pretty busy! I had a pair of pandas in a three foot (40g) tank and they chased most of the other fish to the other side - there were no other cichlids in there at the time.

BTW, the tank's looking pretty good. All you need are some plants to hide the heater and it'd look even better IMHO. The keyholes look pretty impressive too!

Ed.

 

[Glasgowa]

Ed

Thanks for your reply. I actually just took a plant out from in front of the heater as it wasn't coping very well. Will get something to cover it soon.

Hopefully the Keyholes will keep on leaving the Apisto's alone and everything will work out well, fingers crossed

Cheers

Andrew