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.

 

[Omrit]

I would like to add that my red dragon also caused terror in my african tank. By far the worst african cichlid I have kept thus far. Looked really cool though.

I have a 300 gallon African tank and I really enjoy it though. I have a divider I can slide in (which I made from a green house panel that I cut the center out then glued net so water could flow) and when I add new fish I divide off about 1/5 of the tank so the others can get used to looking at them. This has really cut down on the drama, and I also never add just one fish.

 

[tiger15]

Red dragon peacock is not a pure aulanocara, but a hybrid MBUNA inheriting its super aggressiveness. Some peacock are more aggressive than others, such as the jacobfrieberger line. So an all male peacock tank won’t be peaceful, constantly fighting for once’s place as musical chair. It’s stressful to watch. Since all peacock species share the same body shape, and color variation within a narrow range, I find an all peacock tank monotonous to watch, just another blue yellow or blue red fish.

 

[danotaylor]

Yea, red dragons are beastly once at full size.
Anyone that expects an all male display tank of any type to be peaceful is in for a big shock….unless by “all male” you mean solitary male
Having said that, it is possible to find some semblance of balance, but like I shared elsewhere in this subject, there is always chasing, always a skinny fish or 2, and always runs for the top spot resulting in occasional untimely deaths. Because of that, if it’s a peaceful tank you’re looking for, African cichlids are not the fish for you. In most instances, even in single species set ups.
As to what you like and don’t like, that’s entirely your preference