125g Cichlid tank

[Sub-Mariner]

I upgraded from my 90g to a 125g last Friday night. It took me 4-5hrs to do the swap and 1-2hrs to clean up the mess I made. Heres some pictures I took of my fish 2 days ago.

And heres a video from this past week......
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[AttackFish]

Nice.
I want to set up my 55G for africans again after Christmas.
Your tank looks great.

 

[malady]

excellent camera. what kind do you use?

 

[Sub-Mariner]

Nice.
I want to set up my 55G for africans again after Christmas.
Your tank looks great.

Thanks!

You definitely should set it up! I love my Peacocks but if I had to do it all over again Id probably pick 2-3 Peacocks and the rest would be Mbunas. My Mom has a 55g tank, she has 12 Mbunas and 1 German Red Peacock and I love to watch her tank, its always so so lively! I love how my Peacocks look but they can be boring at times. I dont have the heart to sell them or trade them in for some Mbunas. I wish I could add 10 or so Mbunas but Id be afraid they would pick on my Peacocks and stress them out or worse kill them.

excellent camera. what kind do you use?

Its a Canon SD870. For a point and shoot, it takes pretty good pictures. It doesnt have alot of setting but it does have a manual mode with some adjustments and it has different settings you can use such as aquarium / underwater. I use the aquarium setting, it helps take action shots that are otherwise blurry with the standard setting. Macro / digital macro mode is very good w/ the camera!

 

[AttackFish]

Tank looks great either way, not too crowded and plenty of hiding spaces.
I want to go mbuna with my 55G but not sure which species to keep.
Last time around I had a pair of Pseudotropheus crabro, then 3 yellow labidochromis, then some other random mbuna.

 

[rocky2]

very nice fish and nice setup...love the colours

 

[Sub-Mariner]

Tank looks great either way, not too crowded and plenty of hiding spaces.
I want to go mbuna with my 55G but not sure which species to keep.
Last time around I had a pair of Pseudotropheus crabro, then 3 yellow labidochromis, then some other random mbuna.

thanks again.....

You cant go wrong with yellow labs. I got my Mom some yellow labs / rusties and a yellow tail acei for here 55g. The rest I just said to my LFS owner I'll take that one, oh that ones has nice colors, yeah...I'll take that one too. Oh buy 3 get one FREE ok, I'll take those 4 then. So many fish, so little tanks, I wish I had a real monster tank to keep them all in!!

very nice fish and nice setup...love the colours

Thanks!



After setting up my tank last Friday I put my T5 light fixture on my glass tops. The fixture itself has little lips that lifts it up about 1/4" so that it doesnt sit directly on top of the glass and I though Id be ok but I was wrong as usual. I came down the next morning and saw that my left glass top had cracked. So anyone out there thinking of buying a T5HO quad fixture, make sure you USE the legs. I finally got the new glass tops in so heres a full tank shot.

I was thinking of adding some fake plants that I had in my 90g. Theyre a plastic coral plant, I know plastic plants but they are ok looking. They have red tips and are stringing looking. I like how they sway in the current from the Koralias.

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I was also thinking of putting all 3 rocks together to make one big rock formation in the middle of the tank and then maybe adding the fake plants on each side? I know in the end its up to me since I have to look at it everyday, but what do yall think??

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[Sub-Mariner]

Night shot with the LEDs on

 

[alexanian]

That's an awesome tank, awesome fish and awesome shots Really love the way it looks and I love all the different colors u have going in there. Also IMHO I like the 3 rocks together as one large rock better. Even if u don't add fake plants. I've been personally thinking about getting a peacock tank like that since forever. If you don't mind and if you know all the names could you tell me what's your stock list?

 

[yowpat]

very nice tank !