Blue and yellow and 75 gallons.

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My stock list in my signature was the noobiest thing I could think to put there lol I don't own any of those fish actually.

Blue and yellow were the two color's the guy who I'm setting up the aquarium for wanted.

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As cliched as it is, I also have a tank with demasoni and yellow labs. It works out well. Other than the initial cost of the demasoni (which is generally higher than other mbuna because of their slow growth rate and small clutches), it is a great setup for a tank 55+ gallons. The demasoni are smaller, but more aggressive and the yellow labs get large enough to take it.. though this generally isn't an issue. They'll typically ignore each other.

Saulosi are a nice setup, but you tend to get mostly yellow fish with a couple of blue dominant males.
 
^ When I had Demasonis, they were breeding like crazy.

Only bad thing was that they were pretty darn aggressive and they are vegetarians... So

Anything else I kept with them were only getting a veggie diet...
 
Being 75, you could also try yellow labs and either Melanochromis maingano or johani. They're not nearly the bruisers that the yellow Melanochromis are, but still really cool looking. I've never kept a group, but think they may actually be less aggressive than demasoni.
 
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^ When I had Demasonis, they were breeding like crazy.

Only bad thing was that they were pretty darn aggressive and they are vegetarians... So

Anything else I kept with them were only getting a veggie diet...
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That's cool when you get that critical mass where they start breeding more than killing each other. What were they in with?

I feed everything NLS. Good stuff... works just as well for tropheus as it does for predator haps.
 
Sweet thanks for the replies I will look and see what my local breeder has. Speaking of which have any of you Florida peeps heard of the cichlid stop I am going to go see what "they" have.

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kenyii (the males are yellow and the females blue) 1M-3F so if you got 20 you'll have 5 yellow and 15 blue
then you mix them with johanii which are the opposite (males turn blue and females turn yellow) 1M-3F so if you get 20 you'll have 5 blue and 15 yellow

it'll turn out being 20 yellow and 20 blue (you obviously don't have to have 20 of each, just make sure each species is at the 1M-3F ratio or the males might kill the females off :-/ it's actually kinda cool when you have these two breeds because they're like complete opposites (kenyii males are yellow and females are blue but both with vertical black stripes and johanii males are blue and females are yellow but with horizontal black stripes, and the kenyii are taller-bodied where as johanii are more torpedo shaped) when i had this combo it came out really nicely...

but most malawi cichlids are blue or yellow so you have your choice...
 
Not my tank but to give you an idea of how yours could look.....

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