Will 2 kinds of Cyprichromis cross breed in a tank?

[myc]

Is there a way to have 2 different kinds of cyprichromis in a tank without cross breeding? If so, can anyone give examples? Thank you,

[Alleycat]

Keep the same sex of both species and you won't have to worry about cross breeding.... Otherwise, they will.

[smitty]

Good response!

[Creepy85]

Keep Microlepidotus and Jumbo together, they not Crossbreed...

[noddy]

I am keeping microlepidotus and pavo together with no signs of crossbreeding.
I still won't try to save fry from the tank just in case. The pavo seem to spawn in little craters in the sand whereas the micros are open water spawners.

[Qaddiction]

I agree Noddy. My pavo also spawn down on the substrate in a shallow sand depression. I have never caught my microlepidotus spawning, but I have never seen the sand depressions. So I was assuming they were a mid-water spawning fish.

[Philippe Burnel]

Is there a way to have 2 different kinds of cyprichromis in a tank without cross breeding? If so, can anyone give examples? Thank you,

What do you call " 2 different kinds of cyprichromis " ?

That's the 1rst problem.

Answer to this questin and THEN you'll get corretc answer to your question.

[jolly cichlids]

i have seen personally jumbo kitumba and micro black kiriza cross. I personally would not combine any as i have also seen my kitumba breed in pots and near substrate not always in the open water.

[kizzo]

To my opinion, different species can be kept together (leptosoma-pavo, microlepidotus-pavo, leptosoma-microlepidotus). I have 2 versions of micro and 2 versions of pavo in 2 aquariums (micro Lyamembe-pavo Moliro, micro Ubwari-pavo Kamakonde) and they do not cross breed. It is important, that both of the species are kept in big groups (>10 individuals) and sexes in groups are close to equal.

[tanganyikafreak]

I think it's a pretty risky thing to do.
If your intentions are to NOT sell the young you'll get in the tank, then I don't see an issue, otherwise.....

On the other hand if your talking about keeping Paracyprichromis brieni in combination with a Cyprichromis species, I would say 'Why not?'
I'm not sure about a P. nigripinnis - Cyp-combination since the first species is rather timid compared to the other species.