Suggest A Stock List For Me!

[Go_fish]

Right, setting up my mbuna tank tomorrow evening, and want to get some suggestions for my stock list. My only pre-requiste is COLOUR, COLOUR and more COLOUR!

I am new to the Malawi group, so photos would be GREAT!

Am also wondering whether I can add more fish as a later date (I'm talking months down the line). Am just concerned that I have to make a decision very soon about the fish I am going to have for a LONG time!


Thanks in advance!

 

[Cheffi]

Ummmm this is the hard part as beauty if in the eye blah blah. To get the best colours from your fish will not only depend on which species you go for but the gender ratio as well. You need to do some research first, see what you like, make a list, come back, we tell you it won't work, you go away again and eventually you have a perfect list for you......then a few months down the line you decide you want to change some and you start all over again....

 

[adambrum]

same as above but find out whats available in your area also whats your tank size

Ooops just read your other post its a vision 180 thats a 3ft tank so its the smaller mbuna

Also where about are you we may be able to recomend a good shop by you

 

[Go_fish]

same as above but find out whats available in your area also whats your tank size

Ooops just read your other post its a vision 180 thats a 3ft tank so its the smaller mbuna

Also where about are you we may be able to recomend a good shop by you

Hi there - I live in Bucks / Oxfordshire Area. LFS (ie within 30 mils or so) include a few Maidenhead Aquatic places, a couple of World of Water places and The Goldfish Bowl in Oxford. There may be others I don't know about. I have certainly never bought livestock from anywhere other than The Goldfish Bowl.

I guess, in terms of stock list, I was also wondering if there are any really 'special' mbuna I should be considering, ie anything a bit different and not seen very much. Definitely going to stick with the smaller 3-4" ones.

Thanks!

 

[adambrum]

I would stick to the normal ones to start as the more unusual fish tend to be wild caught and need a mature tank not just cycled.

You could try

4 yellow labs
4 acei
4 rusties

plenty of colour there and ideal to start with

 

[Disco]

My reccomendation would be to visit Maidenhead Aquatics @ Oxford and see Jeremy Gay (he writes for PFK full time and is working in the shop most weekends), he used to run there harlestone heath store (cichlid retailer 5 years in a row), and what he doesn't know about malawi's isn't worth knowing. If you are travelling a long way I would reccomend a call first to make sure he is in although the rest of the staff are very helpful.

 

[Go_fish]

My reccomendation would be to visit Maidenhead Aquatics @ Oxford and see Jeremy Gay (he writes for PFK full time and is working in the shop most weekends), he used to run there harlestone heath store (cichlid retailer 5 years in a row), and what he doesn't know about malawi's isn't worth knowing. If you are travelling a long way I would reccomend a call first to make sure he is in although the rest of the staff are very helpful.

Thanks for that - they are local enough for me to get to so I will check them out