My New Lake Malawi Setup.

[knight]

Well i finally decided to take the plunge and start up a Lake Malawi tank. The plan was to use my fluval 120L tank but i sold it to my mum with every thing in it including the fish, int and ext filters for the price sum of £120 (bargin if you as me). I decided on the juwel rio 240 as my new tank so with that and £345 later i had my new tank (only just fitted into the car as well. I then spent the next few days washing sand and the ocean rock (that was fun) and got that into the tank. I have decided on usuing a fluval 405 filter as well as the internal one that came with the tank, the more filtration the better. £650 later and still no fish in site. here is how mytank stands at this min still a fair bit more bits of ocean rock to clean, but nearly there.

 

[kewskills]

looking good so far

 

[knight]

looking good so far

cheers, not really happy with the layout of the ocean rock a bit more moving abouts in order untill iam 100% happy.

 

[Chuka1212]

Looking good!!! Can't wait to see it stocked. Keep us posted.

 

[dthoffsett]

As the others have said, looking good so far!

What are you going to stock with?

 

[knight]

As the others have said, looking good so far!

What are you going to stock with?

well i have got as far as a common plec as iam taking him over from my old 180l setup.

 

[Ferris]

That's a fine start - big enough and tough enough to cope with Mbuna.

Don't forget the adult size of a common will restrict your total stocking levels of Mbuna a little. I have an adult common and a couple of Synodontis Eupterus in my Rio 240 and therefore only have 12 Mbuna in there, which is a relatively small number considering the principle of overstocking Mbuna tanks.

 

[chishnfips]

sorry to hijack, but I would like a plec for mine if I were to remove some mbuna but do you have to have bog wood for them? I like the fact that I dont have wood in my tank.

 

[knight]

sorry to hijack, but I would like a plec for mine if I were to remove some mbuna but do you have to have bog wood for them? I like the fact that I dont have wood in my tank.

i was just going to ask this.

 

[Ferris]

Not for a common or Bristlenose, which are pretty much the only Plecs that could, or should be kept with Mbuna - wood is not an essential part of their diet. Panaques would be a different matter but then i wouldn't risk a Panaque with Mbuna anyway.

 

[knight]

thats good to know didnt really want and bog wood in my tank. finally finished putting the ocean rock in the tank nearly 1 hour of messing about with the layout until i was 100% happy. just need to finalise what mumba iam after.

 

[chishnfips]

sorry to hijack, but I would like a plec for mine if I were to remove some mbuna but do you have to have bog wood for them? I like the fact that I dont have wood in my tank.

i was just going to ask this.

lol, great minds think a like eh.