15 gallon setup

[SerLunchbox]

well, i recently came into a few fish that are just cool. The N. Ocellatus (blue variety) are just cool. Though they really did a number on the male J. ornatus that was in the tank with them. Infact they beat him to death (or so i think).

Is there any other fish that could go with a colony of these guys that would hold their own? I was thinking of j. transcriptus.

It is really bad that i got into tang. cichlids so bad, one girl that works in the kitchen with me actually lived about 3 Km or so from lake tanganyika and is familiar somewhat with the fish that they farm for trade ...

[Vallisneria]

So you are looking for another fish that will live with your ocellatus in a 15g?

Personally i wouldn't put anything else in a 15g that already has ocellatus. Ocellatus are fiesty and will pick on any fish added. I say stick with a small colony of ocellatus for the 15g and get a bigger tank to do a tang community. I used to have a trio of blue occelatus in my 15g and i was never able to add anything else. They killed anything i tried.

[African_Fever]

A 15 is definitely too small to be adding anything else to if you've already got ocellatus.

[Cap'n]

Agreed, but they'll be interesting enough on their own.

I did have a few danios and guppies with my ocellatus, but that was in a 15gal hex. I think the added height of the tank allowed for completely different territories for the two groups of fish, though.