How Many Fish.

[Ginge]

The tank dimentions are 48" 15" 18".
How many African Cichlide Mbuna would fit in there with a bristlenose plec.
I like fish like yellow labs
Kenyi
Electric Blue
And othe colour full fish like these ones. My LFS has all the ones i like they have around 20 10gallon tanks full of 2"fish and a large around 300gallons adult tanks(fish cost £50 out of here becasue they take hours to catch) This is all for cichlids.
I will probably buy them in 3 loads every month.(6 each time)

 

[freddyk]

Figure about 20 fish, keeping in mind that you may need to purchase extras of each if you can't sex them, that way you can be sure to end up with enough females for each group.

 

[Ginge]

This may sound very stupid to all of you people but why do you even need alot of females in on species group of these fish?
Is it for breeding?
If so then i dont really plan to bread my fish but if they do its a bonus and ill raise the fry im not going to try and breed these fish as i have never even had them before.
Unless i can sell them to my LFS or another place but im not sure if there is anybody round my area that does that.

 

[freddyk]

The fish you are considering are highly aggressive and it's important to spread out the aggression amongst several specimens. Check out the stickie post for more info. Letting the fish breed and then spit the fry into the tank means you'll have few survivors anyway, especially if you add some synodontis catfish like Multipunctatus or Petricola to the tank, they'll make short work of many of them.