300 gal malawi tanks

[Steve Adams]

Hi everyone...im a reg. over on cichlid forums but a newbie to here because i just found this site....

im in the process of building 2 cichlid tanks....1 54 gal to hold 8 male peacocks. and the ohter is a 300 gal 8' long mbuna tank with one hap speices.....the 300 will be housing 20 different speices of 6 fish each...2 males and 4 females of each speices....they will have lots of room in there. Im going to be running two jebo filters, a UV sterilizer with power head and some undergravel jets with powerheads as well......for lighting of the big tnak I will have 2 or 4 metal halide units, 8 4ft florecent lights....4 actinic and 4 sunlight......

for the 54 gal there will be a actinic and sunlight bulb...one jebo filter....and one powerhead.

all with fine sand and rocks......

can't wait to get some pics of for all the malawi lovers here.

 

[Ferris]

I like the sound of both tanks but the 300 gal sounds really special, pics asap please.

 

[Steve Adams]

gotta build them first!

I will get pics as they progress

 

[vantgE]

Wow, your going all out with those tanks

Goodluck

have fun

 

[fish_r_great]

Yes I can't wait to see some pics.

 

[Steve Adams]

I have a sheet of 1/2 in acrylic here somewhere im going to start with the 50 g. then im ordeirng in the peices cut out already for 300g. I can't wait to get started.