Greetings from China!
This is my first large tank. Maybe not big compared to a lot of the tanks on here, but it still fills a lot of childhood wishes. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine having a 100 gallon tank much less 170.
The tank is 145x60x75. I would have liked it to be a bit longer, but that was the biggest I could fit in the space, and I had to get it custom made to fit where it does. The depth and height make it a little harder to clean, but the fish use all the space and I really like the depth. It feels so much more natural.
Big Beard's Big 170 African Cichlid
The tank has a few haps and a bunch of peacocks. I would have liked a few predator haps, but the tank is not very long, so I kept mostly to the smaller species.
There are 16 fish in the tank. The first three came from a local fish store. They were doped, which did not leave me feeling very happy. The other 13 came from a breeder I found right after buying the first three. A lot of his breeders are wild caught, supposedly, so I got a bunch of F1s.
Right now, I have
1x Aulonocara Cobue
1x Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi Lawanda
1x Aulonocara German Red
1x Aulonocara Red Rubin (Maybe not a Rubin Red. Who knows what it actually is. It is firetruck red and gorgeous. This is one of the doped ones. This one kept most of its color though.)
1x Aulonocara Maleri
1x Aulonocara Red Shoulder
1x Aulonocara Chitande
1x Aulonocara flavescent
1x Aulonocara Maulana Bi-color 500
1X Star Sapphire
1x Otopharynx Tetrastigma (the tank boss - he's pretty chill)
1x Otopharynx Lithobates (This was one of the doped fish. I'm thinking it is actually a female
1x Copadichromis Azureus (Also a doped female. Pretty frustrating)
1x Protomelas Fenestratus (Definitely a Protomelas - probably a Fenestratus. I live in China and a lot gets lost in translation.)
1x Protomelas Spilonotus (This one will probably need to be re-homed one day, when he gets close to his full size.)
1x Aulonocara Turkis. (Probably)
My question now... do I add more fish? The tank seems pretty full already - and they are not even close to full size yet. I could stop here.
But I would like to pull the two females. And there are a Lot of other fish I would love to have. Like a Taiwan Reef, a Jalo Reef and a male C. Azureus. The tank needs a bit more blue to it. Red and yellow are pretty well covered.
This is my first large tank. Maybe not big compared to a lot of the tanks on here, but it still fills a lot of childhood wishes. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine having a 100 gallon tank much less 170.
The tank is 145x60x75. I would have liked it to be a bit longer, but that was the biggest I could fit in the space, and I had to get it custom made to fit where it does. The depth and height make it a little harder to clean, but the fish use all the space and I really like the depth. It feels so much more natural.
Big Beard's Big 170 African Cichlid
The tank has a few haps and a bunch of peacocks. I would have liked a few predator haps, but the tank is not very long, so I kept mostly to the smaller species.
There are 16 fish in the tank. The first three came from a local fish store. They were doped, which did not leave me feeling very happy. The other 13 came from a breeder I found right after buying the first three. A lot of his breeders are wild caught, supposedly, so I got a bunch of F1s.
Right now, I have
1x Aulonocara Cobue
1x Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi Lawanda
1x Aulonocara German Red
1x Aulonocara Red Rubin (Maybe not a Rubin Red. Who knows what it actually is. It is firetruck red and gorgeous. This is one of the doped ones. This one kept most of its color though.)
1x Aulonocara Maleri
1x Aulonocara Red Shoulder
1x Aulonocara Chitande
1x Aulonocara flavescent
1x Aulonocara Maulana Bi-color 500
1X Star Sapphire
1x Otopharynx Tetrastigma (the tank boss - he's pretty chill)
1x Otopharynx Lithobates (This was one of the doped fish. I'm thinking it is actually a female
1x Copadichromis Azureus (Also a doped female. Pretty frustrating)
1x Protomelas Fenestratus (Definitely a Protomelas - probably a Fenestratus. I live in China and a lot gets lost in translation.)
1x Protomelas Spilonotus (This one will probably need to be re-homed one day, when he gets close to his full size.)
1x Aulonocara Turkis. (Probably)
My question now... do I add more fish? The tank seems pretty full already - and they are not even close to full size yet. I could stop here.
But I would like to pull the two females. And there are a Lot of other fish I would love to have. Like a Taiwan Reef, a Jalo Reef and a male C. Azureus. The tank needs a bit more blue to it. Red and yellow are pretty well covered.
