mbuna

Hello everyone, I am in desperate need of your opinions. I have been planning a new display tank. I purchased the fish for it from Tampa Bay Cichlids. Acei, Rustys, and Maingano Received the fish earlier today and put them in the quarantine tank. Everyone appears healthy aside from a couple...

Hello all! I have had these saulosi for a little over a year. No issues whatsoever. Have always fed a high quality flake (Yourfishstuff brand veggivore flakes) I just want to check with you all and see if this looks normal to you or if you think the male saulosi in question has bloat and the...

Hello, I am setting up a 75 gallon Mbuna tank, here are the specs: Dimensions: 48X18X21 Rocks: red lava rock (enough to fill nearly entire tank to provide hiding spots if neccessary, and houses a ton of beneficial bacteria Filtration: FX6 & Fluval 407 I am an experienced aquarist and...

Will mbunas in a pond eat my lily pads?

Hello Las Vegas If you know anybody, I have about 20 Electric Yellows that I would like to re-home. All ranging from 1" to 3" from multiple spawns The are free, Im in Las Vegas. Please PM if interested

Hey guys. Looking to unload some fish. Willing to deliver in the NYC area. Please see below. I'll text or email some pictures if interested. ~ 35-40 African Cichlids all ranging from 3-7inches. Includes huge 7 inch male Frontosa. Mainly Mbuna, however there's a nice mix. Take the lot of...

I have a 180litre tank that I have a ran for a couple of years now and fancy a change, I was told I could maybe over stock a mbuna tank or look at a lake tang tank. I’m looking for a tank full of personality but preferably not a single fish tank? Happy to consider non-cichlids too and any help...

Hi everyone, could you please help me find out what fish it is? Those two was sold as Lwanda aulonocara but after 3 weeks in my tank I can see diffrences between those 2 and my other juvi peacocks. On my amateur eye it is some mbuna species. Those fishes are just starting geting some color and...

I have been researching for my Lake Malawi Mbuna Cichlid tank and what to stock it with. I have four so far that I am pretty sure will work and I know we want. I was going to take the lazy way out and get a bunch of those four, but then I went to my LFS and saw the beauty in the variety they had...

Will be setting up a new 180gal (6x2x2) Malawi tank by the end of the summer. Was thinking this for a preliminary stock list. Going to get the mbuna at 2”, the haps and peacocks at 3” and the fronts at 5”. Would love some suggestions of the best online vendors for Africans and also for...

Would a small delhezi (4.1 inches) be able to cope with 2 mbunas and 2 peacocks? They're each about 3 1/2 to 5 inches.

I am looking to get a dragon goby for a 40 gallon tank. The tank already contains two peacocks and 2 mbunas a blood parrot and a callychthys cat. I also have a Senegal bichir, about 6 inches in a 20 gallon. Which would it be better with?

I am looking to get another eyebiter for my 40 gallon aquarium. I had one before but she died unexpectedly. I have residence already in the tank and I have another wit a really mean cobalt zebra. The fish are - 1 dragon blood peacock 5 inches - 1 blue peacock 3 inches - 1 mbuna (not sure what...

I currently have a 20 gallon tank with a demasoni, yellow lab, tropheus duboisi, and bumblebee in it. All fish are juvies and I wanted to know how many I can keep in this tank. I will be upgrading to a 75 gallon, since this 20 gallon was free, but not for 6 months or so. Can I keep 8-10 babies...

I have a 55 gallon mbuna set up and I'm running 4 aquaclear 50s on the back. I wanna start another 55 gallon aquarium on bottom to grow out some fry and eventually sell, but I'm running out of outlets so I was wondering if I could replace all the HOB filters with one canister filter which would...

Hello all and Happy Thanksgiving! Just joined the forum to ask a few questions about ordering fish online, something I have never done before. some info. The tank in question is a 55g mbuna tank I aquired, that needs some work in the stocking department. once I remove the few incompatible fish...

Just wanted to show off my mbuna 125, and maybe spark some ideas for other fish keepers getting into African rift lake setups. I just added 4 new mbuna, so I did another rescape today. The look I'm going for is a part of lake Malawi I saw in a video that had fallen logs, driftwood, a few plants...

I've converted this tank to a mbuna only tank. It used to house SA's. I've had mbuna in the past, but not this many. I'm planning on stocking around 25, my current stock list is: 2-Yellow lab 2-blue johanni 1-auratus 1-bumblebee 2-cobalt blue 4-kenyi 1-ice blue albino 1-peacock (trading in for...

Hi guys, just wondering if I would be ok with this size tank for a while - or indefinitely ? 98cm x 38cm x 48, about 200l. (50gal) Pics below - I have: two polyptrus senegalus, (just about full grown and a little under 25cm each) One upside down catfish One bumblee catfish Two butterfly...

good morning guys. my lfs recently had a shipment of 1.5" mbuna cichlids and after some reading have decided i want to get some. i need a bit of help with some things i am not quite sure on. 1- does coral sand need to be used? 2- how many for a 65 long? 3- feeding 4-decor and rocks, what is...