Cynotilapia afra (Jalo Reef)

[kjfan1]

I have 20 new .5-1.5CM Jalo Reef's and I plan on having all of them in a 75 in a month or two. This thread will cover the growth of the beauties from now until they die. With the best of luck I can breed a few!

I'm looking for Aquascaping ideas from all of you and maybe good tank mates? Like a few good algae eaters and anything else that would look great.

Thanks for the wonderful help in advance!

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1733

 

[munchie1010]

Man I wish had a breeder down here that sell jalos, anyways I have one big jalo in my tank and he's with rusties and labs doing fine, make sure you have a lot of rockwork in your 75 for the jalos to hide and if you want to breed them they like a ratio of 1m to 3f, good luck on raising them

 

[spyke]

how cute....yes, lots of rocks and caves and flat rocks....sand is the best substrate for the floor, and if you like having plants you could put some in, they won't uproot them or anything like that
i dunno, probably not a common pleco, try something smaller so there isn't that much stress on the bioload...like an albino bristlenose or even a bigger chinese algae eater, or get some zebras and fuellebornis, so you can keep it all african

 

[kjfan1]

Would broken clay bot be a nice idea? Or would flat slate be better? I'm thinking pots would be cheaper and I have no preference. White silica sand for substrate. Probably an albino bushy would be good!

 

[kjfan1]

What do you guys think?

 

[kjfan1]

Any more input?

 

[t Hizzle]

Finally posted some pictures eh? They look good. I would actually say buying clay pots wouldn't be a whole lot cheaper actually. And rocks would look better. It just depends where you buy the rocks, what kind of rocks you want.

 

[kjfan1]

Well I wont buy the rocks. Were going to go hunting for them all over the country side!

 

[t Hizzle]

HAHA we will have to wait for all this damn snow to melt first.

 

[kjfan1]

Tyler Sunkle and I thought up a solution. The military should blow up non hazardssss(es) bombs 1/4 mile in the air and the heat would meat the snow and then we can put the water on the millions of fires and then swim in the hot pools!