Yeah, I think I'll heed your warning until I set up a monster sized tank or I have another tank going where I can place the Haps if they start getting destroyed in the current setup.
150 Gallon Malawi Reef
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I honestly think that would be the best for the long term. You have the perfect "rocky" biotope for "rock" fish. 
I plan on letting the Vallisneria grow (mostly uncontrolled, but I'll trim it occasionally to keep it from overhanging on the surface) to cover a good portion of the left side of the tank.
Impressive!It's finally done (aside from the stocking)!!
72" x 18" x 27"
The background consists of Pangea Rock Modules and real rock.
Substrate is a mixture of coarse grained and fine grained playsand.
Filtration -
FX5
Hydor Koralia 1050 GPH
Lighting -
Beamswork 48" Reef Capable Fixture
Fauna - Only 15 fish so far...
Pseudotropheus elegans 'ngara', elegans 'msuli', johannii, heteropictus, crabro
Metriaclima sp. 'msobo', callainos 'ruarwe', estherae
Melanochromis auratus
Labidochromis caeruleus
Flora -
Vallisneria spiralis
What do you guys/ladies think??
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Most of my mbuna are actually approaching mature adulthood. My largest are my male P. elegans 'ngara', male P. heteropictus, and female M. callainos 'ruarwe', all of which are now over 5" and almost 2 years old.
I added more rocks to the tank and I partially heeded your warning (RD) and added one small (2.5") male P. sp. 'steveni taiwan' today and so far the mbuna have ignored him. They don't even seem to care when he lurks near their nests. I don't foresee any problems (since there aren't any yet) but if they decide they don't want him around I'll make sure he gets moved into a tank by himself.
I also ordered 10 P. saulosi and 4 C. elongatus 'taiwan' from Dave today. They're schedued to arrive on thursday and I'll have new pictures up once they're settled in. I decided to go with a (mostly) Taiwanee Reef theme for the tank; aside from the nearly random current stock.
Here's a (terrible) pictures the Pseudotropheus saulosi juvies in a ten gallon so they can get a little bigger before they go into the main tank. Unfortunately, the one of the smallest of the saulosi died this morning, but the rest are doing perfect. I moved the Cynotilapia sp. 'elongatus taiwan' juvies into the main tank today and they're eating well and already attempting to take territory from the Pseudotropheus elegans 'ngara' juvies I have in there haha.
