29 gallon first time

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Well, i might have a 29 gallon tank clearing up pretty soon here, and i was thinking i might go with africans since i have never done them before. So my question is, what is your suggestion of a combination of fish?

They have to be pretty well available, not too hard to take care of and it'd also be cool if they'd breed easy (always makes me feel good if my fish breed). I've looked at cichlid-forum.com's cookie cutter setups and they are pretty cool, but i'm not sure of the availability of some of them.

what i get from cichlid-forum's article is that i can do this setup, which seems pretty sweet to me:

a pair of juli's
a pair of 5" africans
a trio of shell dwellers
 
well i got some local lime stone (i think) and now i'm testing it in a tupperware tank with a few feeders in it.

my water right now is at 7.5-7.6 and hard, i think i could manage to get it up to close to 8 with some crushed coral and limestone, so africans should thrive right?
 
As good as CF is for their active boards and generalized profiles and slightly more in-depth articles IMO their cookie-cutter set-ups are mostly crap.
Moving on, are you sure the cookie-cutter didn't read

a pair of julies OR
a pair of 5" Africans OR
a trio of shellies

...not all "and"?

I could get away with a single pair of 5" pair-bonding Julies or Neolamps.
A trio or slightly more of shellies, deoending on the species.
 
so your saying a pair of juli's and a trio of shell dwellers?
 
I'm not.
But you could try it, a pair of dwarf julies, J. ornatus or transcriptus - true trans BTW, not "transcriptus Gombe" which are the more aggressive J. marlieri, and a trio of smaller or more peaceful shellies like brevis, simils or multi's. Design the tank to accommodate for both, a rockpile and a shell-bed, let the shellies settle in first but don't wait too long before you introduce the Julies and have a back-up plan just in case.
For a 29 I like a single pair of 5" Neolamps and my preference is for the brichardi types (N. brichardi, pulcher, splendens, marunguensis, gracilis). One pair will fill the tank with lots of youngsters, every now and then I clear the tank of older ones, sell or give them away and let the numbers replenish themselves.
 
straitjacketstar;946297; said:
I'm not.
But you could try it, a pair of dwarf julies, J. ornatus or transcriptus - true trans BTW, not "transcriptus Gombe" which are the more aggressive J. marlieri, and a trio of smaller or more peaceful shellies like brevis, simils or multi's. Design the tank to accommodate for both, a rockpile and a shell-bed, let the shellies settle in first but don't wait too long before you introduce the Julies and have a back-up plan just in case.
For a 29 I like a single pair of 5" Neolamps and my preference is for the brichardi types (N. brichardi, pulcher, splendens, marunguensis, gracilis). One pair will fill the tank with lots of youngsters, every now and then I clear the tank of older ones, sell or give them away and let the numbers replenish themselves.
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really good advice here... I would listen to it... good luck...
 
grrr can't do this anymore, i decided to let mom stock it (with a little guidance from me) it was the only way i could be sure she was cool with my 55 gallon tank i bought without her knowing.
 
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