All male 185 stocking questions

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Jack Dempsey
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Looking for a hand hashing out an all male hap/peacock tank. Tank mates will be 5-7 cuckoo and 2 plecs

List so far
Red Top Lawanda
Blue neon
Azureus
White Knight
Star Saphire
Flavescent
Red Empress
Taiwan Reef
Dragon Blood
Intermedius
Yellow Tail Acei
Aulonocara Maleri chipoka
Turkis Peacock

Any of these not going to work and I know I need a few more to crowd this tank any thing you all think I should try adding to the mix?

Ty
 
I have the majority of the listed species in my 120 gal. African setup. No problems.
You might want to look at some of the Nimbochromis species, Venustus, Livingstoni & Fusco and maybe a Placidochromis Milomo. Consider replacing the Plecos with a group of a bigger species of Botia Loach.
 
The only one who shares a pH preference would be maybe the weather loach wouldn't it and it prefers cooler water ?
I'll do some more digging on the cichlids.
 
I don't do well with made up trade names, but you don't need to crowd an all male tank, as one would typically do with mbuna. How it will all play out as the fish sexually mature will be a roll of the dice, so be prepared to add & subtract as time goes on. Personally I would leave out the cats, and plecos.
 
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I have a group of Y. Modesta (Red Tails) & a Berdmorei Loach in my tank. They do great. Weather loaches would likely be slaughtered.
 
No need to look them all up, but what is a blue neon???

Here's what I kept in my all male tank years ago. (125 gallon)

Africans From the Past - Warning pic heavy!

I shut down my last African tank this week, sent them off to a friends fish room where they will live out their lives in his 270 gallon display tank. I got to thinking about all of the various African cichlids that I have kept over the years and started going though my HD for photos. I thought...
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