90G MALAWI TANK STOCKED FINALLY!!!!

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I love the yellow one!! Is it a stuatgranti (sunshine peacock)?? Dont have many good places around here in nh to buy africans I get lucky every now and then though... I just finally figured out how to put my pics up I want to get feedback on my african setup!! I have a mixture of mbunas and peacocks mostly I started with the africans back in march 08 I got them all at 2 in. they are now between 4-6 in. I Love them they have been mating like rabbits since I put the flat rock in there and they stick with there own breeding groups I have an ob male he has 3 peach colored females, The blue (red zebra) has 2 females one blue and one orange. There is one pair of golden mbunas and an electric yellow breeding colony! They are sooooooooo much fun and so cool to watch it is like a soap opera in my tank everyday who needs tv lol


oh yea an my kenyi male has 2 female companions they like to fight though!! Kenyis can be brutal especially if you have 2 males which I found out when 2 males both killed eachother over dominance this is my surviver male used to think he was a she because he was blue for so long!
here is one of my fry tanks I have 3

my tank is a 125 I have noticed that the more fish there it lowers aggression depending on what in there they have such an interesting hyrearchy sytem it really is so based on the compatibility with these africans you never know when thats gonna change though! especially if and when you add females to the mix!! You get to enjoy africans for a long time if your lucky too they are hardy and can live 10 yrs!!!

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I think you got a good deal because those all have great color!! its easy to find what kind of fish you have if you go on google and search just the images of peacock cichlids many times you will find the same ones you have and see what sorts of names they go under... I say "names" because you will find they can vary...
 
Congratz on the Tank Dude!

NLS is the S___t!

Plankton and Krill too.

Good Luck,


Richard
 
i just learned all this so i hope i am correct. for sexing, look for the round "eggspots" on the bottom rear fin. those are males. the 2nd pic in post 33 has some nice ones.

i was told that the ratio of males to female is 1:2.

also told that peacocks are one of the less agressive of the africans, so i would say that finding other less agressive mates will work. also, having alot of caves and hiding places helps out with leeping them from fighting.

the other thing i have been told is that overstocking an african tank is actually a good thing. more fish= less fighting. and no one fish will get picked on.

hope this helps, and hope i am right. and thanks uncle ned for teaching me all this.
 
Hey everybody, thanks for all the great feedback!
I haven't updated in a while, so I thought I would.
I got some NLS! I have heard that you have to soak it before you feed it though. Is this true? If so, for how long?
The fish are doing great! I lost one fish (a yellow lab):cry: One out of eleven isn't that bad considering that it's my first African tank.
As for those who were worried about the peacocks/haps and mbuna (especially the johanni) not mixing, I haven't seen anything so far.
 
mike dunagan;2751663; said:
You do not need to soak your NLS. Egg post are not a sure fire way to sex fish. Venting is the way to go.
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Males have the circular vents and females have the teardrop-shaped vents, right?
 
So today I got four new fish:
1x 5" "select color peacock" (I'm not sure but I think it might be a malawi trout:eek:

2x 2 or 3" nimbochromis venustus
1x 2 or 3" mystery fish (blackish-purpleish body with orange fins)

Stay tuned for pics of this batch and last batch
 
Here's pics from this batch (ID's would be greatly appreciated):
Mystery fish
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Nimbochromis Venustus. At what size should they start coloring up? Should I get more?
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Malawi Trout???
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Some pics from the last batch:
Johanni:
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R.I.P.
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Yellow Lab:
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And a pic of the marble peacock:
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There's 13 fish in there now. What else should I get?
 
The fish in the first 2 pics is a Copadichromis borleyi and i think your malawi trout is a Sciaenochromis fryeri...commonly known as the Electric Blue.


is the blue striped one a johanni or a maingano? been tryin to figure out how to tell the difference.
 
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