24 Foot Long Tank Recommendations

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Is there enough light for plants?

Maybe on one of the ends have a Val. bed. for some preds. (trout and Haps.) to lurk.

I am a big fan of Rainbows for a awesome, upper level schooling fish. They like hard water and come in many colors.

Synos. for scavengers. Albino BN for algae control.

Loaches if the Ph is not to high and buffers are not used would make a great bottom schooler.
 
Malawi, if you are going that route must have some Blue Dolphins Crytocara Moori. Not to change things as you have countless options and many opinions on here.

I would do a Mixed community. You could almost have sections of the tank set like different parts of a biotype. Large quantity schools of fish are very impressive and offer just as much color as a Malawi tank. Keep the driftwood and add a few more nice peices. Get a huge school of Cardinal Tetras for the bottom layers (Like 200 of them) You can use a few of the different types of rainbow fish in schools of 30-40 (Like Boesemani or Herbertaxelrodi) for the middle to upper layers. Absolutely a big school of clown loaches (30-40) You can then fill the little nooks and crannies with some dwarf cichlids and Have some real nice big Angelfish, Discus, Severums or Uaru (6-12) For focal points Or even mix them.

No matter what way you go, I would never leave work with that in my office and look forward to seeing your final decision on tank inhabitants.
 
I may be a bit late to this discussion...but where's the love for Tanganyikans?!!? Throw in about 4 emperor cichlids (boulengerochromis) a ton of cyp's and let them sustain a live natural food source for your Frontosa's! Then get a Neolamp (rock dwelling) colony going that will go in and out of the rocks. Get some featherfins and some sand sifters to liven up the bottom and mid water. Throw in about a hundred shells and throw a couple of different shellies and let them go at it. For clean up crew and easy breeding get some Syno Petricola's.

Seperate the tank into the specific "tidal" zones or whatever they call it. Have the fish figure out what zones they should instinctively inhabit.

That would be the ultimate african tank IMO.

Chris
 
PauloSilva;3775259; said:
With a tank like that I think it would be safe to mix some colorful peacocks and haps with some relatively calm mbuna.

Possibly

Anything Peacock (ngara flametails, ruby reds)
Some haps (Moori, Placidochromis Jalo, Red Empress)

Then some Saulosi for mbuna cause you'll get the black and blues from the males and the yellows from the females along with some acei.

This could be the wickedist malawi tank ever set up.
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Per what you are looking for, I think this is a great suggestion. All male Haps and Peacocks, and then a nice sized colony of Saulosi.
 
This tank used to have natives in it correct?
 
here's my two cents. you could do an incredible tanganyika ecosystem with that set up you have there... if i was you here's my plan:

- on either end of the 'tank' you could have two big rock piles. from there you could set up a plethora of different communities. you could have a big colony of some kind of tropheus; doesn't have to be the rare stuff. if you want some instant color and bang, i would get tropheus ikola kaiser (yellow bands). get a school of 20 small ones to start with and probably in a year's time that would double or triple easily.
http://www.cichlids.net/images/fish/trikola.jpg

the rocky ecosystem would also support fish like calvus, compressiceps, julidiochromis etc.

- towards the rocky edge and going for around 2-3 feet towards the middle, you could plant a bunch of giant vallisneria. i think it would be cool to have huge shoals of cyprichromis (40 or something) darting through that and at the surface.
http://win.afrofish.it/public/album/Lago Tanganyika/Cyprichromis.jpg

- at the edge of the plant and going towards the middle of the tank you can have huge huge colonies of shell dwellers (lamprologus sp.). imagine seeing 3-4 feet of tank space just littered with shells and having dozens and dozens of micro colonies of these guys flitting around
http://www.aqua-fish.net/imgs/articles/lamprologus_multifasciatus.jpeg

- and in the middle you could have a huge area for sand sifting cichlids like xenotilapias, enantiopus, cyathopharynx furcifer etc. etc. that are in shoals of 5-6 males and 20 females
http://www.tomstanganyikans.com/images/Cyathopharynx Furcifer Ruziba.jpg
http://virtualwords.newtime.hu/images/words/enantiopus.jpg
http://www.reservestockcichlids.com/images/P/X bathyblue.jpg

i think instead of stuffing that tank to the brim with a bunch of mbunas or some pbass, go create that living ecosystem that resembles nature and bring a piece of it back home.

:)
good luck.
 
The world is your oyster malawi wise with that tank.Predatory Haps would look amazing in there.Not often these fish get tonnes of space because of the size they grow to.But i would go with a mixture of all 3 genre from malawi.If you want any suggestions just give me a shout i could reccomend some species.Poeple have already suggested some stunners.
 
i would get geos, servums,bolt cat,tig cat,stingrays,asain arowanas,lungfish,clown loaches or get some big catfish
 
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