24 Foot Long Tank Recommendations

[-DC-]

I'll try to snap a few pic's of what my new Malawi tank looks like (same concept larger scale) I have about 40 species in my 6' tank, mostly mbuna, some peacocks , and some haps everything from my little demasoni ( a must have they are small but the color!) to a pair of venustus

My personal favorites for malawi are demasonie, yellow lab’s , hongi, Cobu afra , OB zebras (the true ones not those mixed washed out ones), venustus, blue ahil, cobalt blue zebra cichlid, dolphin , ngara flametail peacock (red), otter point jake’s, lemon jake cichlid, polit’s, ice blue red top, just to start, there are hundreds more… depends on your taste, I like a good mix of color, and species where the female also shows color if possible

 

[hunttastic]

dang nice tank

 

[wheatbackdigger]

Big tank = big fish...why waste such a nice tank on a bunch of mbuna's. Stock a 55 if you want yellow labs, demasoni, rusties, etc. Start with a nice size colony of Blue Zaire Fronts and work from there with your stocklist. You can thank me now or thank me later

 

[grunzilla]

Now THAT......is a tank.

 

[meghanashley]

wow, that tank is awesome

 

[emptyhead]

I didn't read all the responses, so I'm not sure what has been suggested, but here is what I might stock if you want a cool looking colorful tank- adjust numbers as you see fit:
60 Pseudotropheus demasoni
60 Labidochromis caeruleus (yellow lab)
20 Iodotropheus sprengerae (rusty)
20 Labeotropheus trewavasae
40 Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos
20 Metriaclima callainos
20 Pseudotropheus acei - yellow tail

Edit - I would also add a group of 20 Synodontis multipunctatus.

 

[dpk2313]

NO demasoni they are a pita once they're over 3"

yellow labs
Nimbochromis
and all kinds of aulonocara peacocks

almost all african cichlids will interbreed with similar fish but its perfectly natural, the fry will more then likely be eaten before it matures if left in the tank though

 

[MalawiTango]

big haps and big peacocks!!! You could also get away with a group of 8 fronts cruising through there too.

 

[rickscics]

Personaly I would stock that tank with beautiful Discus . Maybe even a huge colony of Wilds.

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

clowns?

In a Malawi tank?

erm.... no

LMAO since when are fronts from malawi?