Lake Malawi Aquarium

[whistlindix]

G`day all,

Thanks to everyone who replied to my first fishy question.

Since then i have been to a couple of aquarium shops and had a face to face discussion with the owners. One shop owner will not even stock any species of pseudotropheus due to their aggressive behaviour. He has really tried to pursuade me into starting off with Peacocks. After a bit more research this is a what im thinking of putting into 122x32x46 tank. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

1xGerman Red (a. stuartgranti)
1xBenga Peacock (a. baenschi)
1xBlue Orchid Peacock (a. kandeense)
1XNorthern Aulonocara (a. ethelwynnae)
1xEureka Peacock (a. jacobfreibergi)
6xElectric Yellow (l. caeruleus
1xCynotilapia Afra (Cobue)
1xCynotilapia Afra (Lupingo)

Cheers,

Whistlindix

 

[freddyk]

I've seen tanks like yours work just fine, and the labs will get along well.

 

[freshmike]

A thought. It is always better to keep males AND females together, not just males, as the males will show their color a lot better when they have someone to show it to. From my experience, keeping all males together will lead to having very bland coloration on the fish, also could end up in even more of a war having only males. Not so much apparent in mbuna species (although you have chosen a couple of afra, who do change color for the females) but very obvious in the aulonocara. Even if you don't plan to breed, it is good idea to have the females present, decor-wise, it just looks better in my opinion as well, brown females and SUPER colorful males is always a nice contrast......just to let you know though, they most likely WILL breed.

 

[G_Sharky]

This might be off the topic, but would keeping all males on a mbuna tank keep them from colouring up???. Because on my tank, i only have single species and most of them are males with the exception of the saulosi, and the gerberi....