does this setup sound any good

[jake roberts]

hi

well i have recently bought a 3ft tank it holds around 160 litres
and since all i have ever had is community fish i decided to go for somthing different and so i ended up deciding on african cichlids

Tank: 3ft (42 us gallon)
filtertto filter
decor: java fern and 2 unknown plants, rockwork forming 7 caves, bits of driftwood
substrate: pea size gravel with small bag of gravel that helps rise the ph
Light:1 flourescent bulb 30 watt
Ph: 7.8
temperature: 24 celcius

Fish:
1 tangerine
1 yellow lab (i am getting two more soon)
1 blockhead
1 strawberry peacock (it think)
1 blue zebra
1 unknown species (think it may be labeotropheus trewavasae "zimbawe")
1 rainbow shark was told it would do alright in a high ph

I was thinking of gettin some of these fish can you plz tell me if any of these would do any good
blue peacock
yellow peacock
rusty cichlid
melanochromis johanni
oto lithobates sulphur crest
electric blue


will post pictures tomorrow as it is very late here

suggestions and critisium welcome

 

[tarheels910]

I wouldnt put much in a 3ft tank. Maybe a group of yellow labs or peacocks.

 

[mike dunagan]

sounds like too many fish... I would lose the shark, what is the blockhead? If it is what I think which is Steatocranus casuarius

 

[Muske]

Sounds like an awful lot of fish in a 40. The rusty is good choice for smaller tanks, Peacocks might be to large.

 

[jake roberts]

sounds like too many fish... I would lose the shark, what is the blockhead? If it is what I think which is Steatocranus casuarius

yes you are right the blockhead is steatocranus casuarius

 

[jake roberts]

so can any one tell me if the fish i have on ym wishlist are any good for my tank

 

[mike dunagan]

The mbuna may be too much for the blockhead, I had one that did not do well with them and died. This time around they are going in with fronts and comps and calvus... I would also look to keep smaller ones. I would say lose everything but mbuna and get a lot of rocks and get smaller dwarf mbuna and do a well stocked tank... over stocked compared to must... will look great. I have 135 this way...

 

[malawi haps]

In that size tank I would just do mbunas and a small type syno.

 

[jake roberts]

The mbuna may be too much for the blockhead, I had one that did not do well with them and died. This time around they are going in with fronts and comps and calvus... I would also look to keep smaller ones. I would say lose everything but mbuna and get a lot of rocks and get smaller dwarf mbuna and do a well stocked tank... over stocked compared to must... will look great. I have 135 this way...

well at the moment i have plenty of caves for the cichlids well anyway i will post up some pictures soon

 

[mike dunagan]

great. look forward to see the pics, but remember larger africans caves are not enough. They will calm any thing touching their territory...