All male peacock/aulonocara tank

[Nyrkorey]

Alan has a good quantity of malawi males that you can buy for a really good price. His shipping is well priced also. I would recommend him highly!

See that's what I want the tank looks beautiful and just so active! I love the look of it. It's just achieving that is like a chore in itself!! .. I've done the whole monster fish stuff and all that and he gets old.. so I've always wanted to do peacocks and haps. Your tanks are incredible

Ok awesome I'll check him out

 

[danotaylor]

See that's what I want the tank looks beautiful and just so active! I love the look of it. It's just achieving that is like a chore in itself!! .. I've done the whole monster fish stuff and all that and he gets old.. so I've always wanted to do peacocks and haps. Your tanks are incredible

Ok awesome I'll check him out

They were beautiful & active for sure, but they did create a reasonable amount of stress in the end...especially the big tank. The attrition rate was pretty high, at least much higher than I had ever experienced in single species breeding set ups. I made a few fatal errors of judgment, thinking that in such a big tank I could house multiples of certain species. The fosso rostratus I had 1 wild 14" specimen, and I added another of similar size. Within a month my wild male was dead. Same with the malawi trout, had 1 @ 10", added a 2nd, same result. I never added just 1 fish to the tank, always multiples, and always at lights out.
I successfully kept many species peacocks, OB's & pure with the usual chasing. I had to remove the red dragon seen in the vid once he hit 8" cause he terrorized everything in the tank.
I didn't necessarily experience what DJransome mentioned about similar looking colors & species, it was more of an individual fish temperament issue to work out for me in both of these male displays.