South American Cichlids • Adding Keyhole(s) to community tank?

[jlmoss75]

Hello everyone, I have a 29g community tank with 5 Serpae, 3 Black Skirt, 2 White Skirt, 1 Black Phantom Tetras, and 5 Sterbai Cory. I was thinking about adding 2 Keyhole Cichlids to the tank. I have read that this species is peaceful. They would be purchased as juveniles. Is this a bad idea? Would 2 be ok together no matter how the sexes turned out or should I only go for one if its an ok thing to do? Thank you for reading this and any comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[dalto]

All the keyholes I have ever had have been very peaceful. Probably the most peaceful cichlids I have owned.

I have never tried to keep them in a tank that small so I am not sure how they would react if you ended up with two males in such a small space.

[exodus1501]

I have kept celestial pearl danios with my keyhole pair and havent had problems.

[jlmoss75]

Thank you for the comments. I now have 3 juvenile Keyholes in my community tank. Assuming I have at least one male and one female, at what age or size does the pairing happen? And what does the pairing behavior look like?

[exodus1501]

Typical spawning behaviour for cichlids. Digging pits, clearing surfaces, shaking at each other.

Mine didn't lip lock at all.

[The camaro show]

They are very nice fish just slow growers