600 gallons of cichla!

[darboy]

This is my first post in the media lounge I wanna share my new tank just about a month and a half cycled. Fishes are doing great, getting fed hikari floating cichlid pellets for snacks and feeder livebearers that are quarantined in the garden pond for a few days.(there's also an excessive amount of mbuna cichlids in the pond so sometimes they become feeders too )
i have a silver arowana, 4 pleiozonas who run the show, 2 tems, 2 Orinos, 5 monos, and 2 plecos in this tank. Can't wait for them to get huge but for now im having fun bulking them up let me know what you think oh and i also attached some pics of how the tank was set up, good day!

 

[spadoc79]

Thats freakin sweet man!! how big are they? can we get a full tank shot?

 

[High City Rida]

Great shot's FINALLY the long sought after Pleizonas. I have been looking for this sp for 4yrs. If I may ask where did you get them?

 

[tnfcfa]

What are you doing for filtration?

 

[darboy]

Thats freakin sweet man!! how big are they? can we get a full tank shot?

thanks!! largest fish there is probably 10 inches, some of the monoculus are even smaller about 5 to 6 inches but they hold their ground. i haven't taken whole tank shots yet im still in the process of adding more light to the tank but basically this is what the tank looks like. very plain, just a huge driftwood some boulders and alot of open space.

 

[darboy]

What are you doing for filtration?

i have a pond filter on top that's sufficient for 10,000 gallons, extra filter media inside, and weekly siphoning of cichla waste on the tank bottom and 20percent water change. so far so good...

 

[darboy]

Great shot's FINALLY the long sought after Pleizonas. I have been looking for this sp for 4yrs. If I may ask where did you get them?

just got lucky actually, got them from an importer here in the philippines, this guy usually imports various wc catfish and rays from south america, they were actually labeled wc cichla sp but i jumped right on it when i saw the four bars.

 

[High City Rida]

Nice I can't blame you there hard to find for sure. Thanks for sharring.

 

[darboy]

i have a pond filter on top that's sufficient for 10,000 gallons, extra filter media inside, and weekly siphoning of cichla waste on the tank bottom and 20percent water change. so far so good...

oops made a mistake... i have a pond filter on top that's sufficient for 1000 gallons. not, 10,000, sorry.

 

[jayclarke]

wow, awesome tank, keep us updated