50-Gallon Mouthbrooder Breeding Tank
From Microcosm Aquarium Explorer
This community is planned as a display for a pair of mouthbrooders, either Finley’s Cichlid in which both parents play a role or Gunther’s Mouthbrooder with the male being the initial caretaker.
Top to Bottom
- 2-3 Upside-Down Catfish Synodontis nigriventris
Midwater Swimmers
- 8-12 Congo Tetras Micralestes interruptus
- OR -
- 6-9 Redeye Tetras Arnoldichthys spilopterus
Bottom Swimmers
- 3-4 Finley's Cichlid Benitochromis finleyi
- OR -
- 3-4 Gunther's Mouthbrooder Chromidotilapia guntheri
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Excerpted from: 101 Best Tropical Fishes