My 125g is finally ready after a few weeks wait

ooosparkeyooo

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Well my 125g tank was finally ready yesterday. My original 40 gallon DIY sump failed horribly so I switched to hobs at 655 GPH currently split between three of them. I'm going to get me two 700 gph canisters after the new year or a professional sump kit. The 16 small cichlids are very happy to get out of their 10 gallon quarantine tank they were in for a week and a half. I get 8 more mixed cichlids friday putting me at 24 total.

It has natural limestone stacked about 1/3 the height of the tank with caves big enough for adults to hide in and thinking of adding maple slate later, and has a black back with natural sand bottom.

Also wanting a great bottom dweller.

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wrslrcichlid

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Looks great!! One thing I will mention is a resource that can help you ID and choose fish you want to introduce to your aquarium. <http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/> It looks to me that you have all mbuna, which are Lake Malawi (group on the website I linked), with mbuna as the subgroup.

One nice thing is you can look at species profiles and see an average aggression level. As best you can, you want to try and keep the aggression levels consistent, that way you don't develop a situation where one really mean/aggressive fish starts killing off the others. Anyway, it's a nice looking tank. Can't wait to set my 125g back up - had to tear it down due to a move, but hoping to get it back up over the next couple of months.
 
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