Demasoni and White tops?

Why not, I like your idea! Just find nice sand, a lot of rocks, try to find red rocks or white and you will have a very, very nice tank.

Go for it!

I have never housed the two together, but I would worry about the interspecies aggression due to the blue stripyness with the male White Tops. I know my Jalo Reef afra male hates everything with stripes reguardless of species.

MalawiLover said:

I have never housed the two together, but I would worry about the interspecies aggression due to the blue stripyness with the male White Tops. I know my Jalo Reef afra male hates everything with stripes reguardless of species.

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That was something I had worried about initially, but folks who keep the 2 species say they look vastly different from each other in person, which is what got me curious to various shades of blue.

I'm just fishing for ideas really. Been trying to choose a stocking list for almost 2 months now

I have no issues between these two species......

teqvet said:

but folks who keep the 2 species say they look vastly different from each other in person, which is what got me curious to various shades of blue.

I'm just fishing for ideas really. Been trying to choose a stocking list for almost 2 months now

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They may look very different to us, but its what the fish see that matters. I am not sure how subtle changes in color look to them, or is it just a bluish fish with dark stripes?

why_spyder said:

I have no issues between these two species......

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Yup! I know you don't, and a few others as well, so just assumed I could get away with it too

Sounds like you should at least give it a try.

Lots of white top pics in this thread here, for an idea of the various colorations compared to the dema's.

I'd just be afraid that you're not going to have enough variances in blue to be happy with the tank long term. I have a hard time keeping more than one male White top in a 55g tank without some pretty intense aggression, I can only keep younger ones in with my dominant wild male that he doesn't see as a threat. The problem with the younger ones is that they don't always stay that nice white-blue. And, while the female White tops are the nicest female Cynotilapia I've seen, they are another blue barred fish.

Kim

Well rain on my pretty parade then.

How's bout 10 White tops and 10 Albino Socolofi?

I don't care for the albino fish personally, but it should be okay.

I have about 20 White Tops in a tank with one male Ps. Msobo Deep and 4 females. The nice yellow colouration of the Msobo females looks great with the White Tops.

Kim

I was looking at the msobo's as well, but wasn't really able to decide on anything. My wife likes the albino look, but would rather have yellow labs. I'm just turned off of the labs because they seem so stinking common, and I don't want common ;p

Than have 10 white tops, 5 caerleus and 5 albino socolofi and enjoy. That will be a striking color combo…crazy yellow, sick red eyes white crew and white tops…

I must say that I am thinking right now about making this combo in one of the tanks...as soon as I can get my hands on white tops

…and Kim this is not fair I am drooling over your Msobo :drooling:

What size is that tank, Kim? and how many fish did you have total in it you said?

It's a 55G, standard 4 ft. tank.

There are 5 Msobos, and about 20 White tops of varying sizes, 1 BN pleco, and a trio of Synodontis ocellifer.

I will be removing some of the White tops at some point, I'd like to pick out a few extra females to keep. I have a wild male White top in "time out" right now that I'd like to reintroduce to the tank as soon as another male gets large enough to cope with the two older males. Once I do that, I may need to move the Msobos to another tank, but for now, it works just the way it is.

Keep in mind that I'm only getting away with this because most of the White tops are young. There are only 2 full adult size wild ones in the tank right now with the large female being out in a maternity tank most of the time.

Kim

I'd be getting 1-2" fish so they would all be young and introduced at the same time. I'm hoping for a 125g next year so could move em around then if need be.

What about the Ps Flameback. I know you've had bad experience with them Kim, but they are quite uncommon.