Our Lake Malawi Tank.

[FiremanSam]

G'day All,

I know, I know, I should have come here first before I bought the fish but I'm hoping these all go together. LFS guy said that they did, and I liked the colours.

3 x Electric Yellows
3 x Blue Dolphins
3 x Red Top Zebras.

They seem to be going alright at the moment, I have tried to set this tank up as close as possible to what their natural enviroment would be. Lots of rocks, gravel and no plants in a 120cm 160L tank.

Regards

Andrew

 

[Boids-n-more]

The Electric yellows and the zebras will be fine togeather. The blue dolphin i don't know much about but what i did find on the net is that it likes some animal protein whitch is bad for the yellow and zebra. I would trde the blue dolphins in for a different blue cichlid that had the same food requirements as the other 2. Also what are the dimensions of your tank out of curiousity.

 

[adambrum]

The Blue Dolphins i assume are cyrtocara moorii which are malawi haps, They dont do to well with mbuna and they get to about 8" but slowly it might work but dont be surprised if they start going missing the red zebras get quite aggressive when older.

 

[FiremanSam]

G'day Boids-n-more ,

Thanks for the info. DAMN!!!! LFS guy I told him that they were all going the same tank. Tank demensions are 40cm high x 35cm wide x 120cm long. With rocks I think it is about 160 litres capacity. Why do you ask?

Andrew

 

[Boids-n-more]

Tank sized seemed odd , i haven't seen that size here in the states. I was also trying to get a visual.