Looking for help and ideas for stocking a 760 gallon Cichlid tank.

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Guys I think he wants American cichlids not Africans. But anyways if you want blues and purples, all I can think of are blue Texas cichlids, Jack Dempseys, and green terrors. You can also add some red/orange in there for contrast. For example, fire mouths, jewels, Blood Parrots, Red terrors, Red Devils/midas would look great.
 
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Gourami Swami said:
Personally would go with tanganyikan cichlids, will give more variety and less likely to hybridize with each other (still possible with soem species of course)
A bunch of Calvus or similar, shell dweller colonies on the bottom, julidochromis swimmin in the rocks, and some big frontosa tank-bosses.

Lots of ways you could go but the texas holey rock kind of forces you to stick with africans.
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With that size tank and tanganyikan setup could potentially include a large oddball- maybe MBU or giraffe cat, ornate polys
 
If I was to set up that tank with Tangs, I'd go with a big school of Cyprichromis, a Neolamprologus (that will reproduce like crazy), a big school of Synodontis (multipunctatus, lucipinnis, etc.) and maybe a few calvus or something interesting looking. Love the idea of an mbu puffer or some other oddball to give it personality.

Even a big tank like that can be problematic as a New World tank, unless it's South Americans like Heros, Festivums, Geos and acaras (along with silver dollars, chalceus, etc.). A pair of Amphilophus or other big central americans could take over the whole tank if they decide to spawn. That's obviously not going to follow the plan of Texas Holey Rock and would be considerably more challenging with water quality, etc.

It's ideal for a Malawi tank.
 
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There is a guy on here with an 1800 gallon African tank you could look at for inspiration and ideas
 
Put 1 betta splendens in there. Seriously though, he could do pterophyllum, discus, festivum, rams, cockatoos and a boatload of tetras in there
 
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dogofwar said:
If I was to set up that tank with Tangs, I'd go with a big school of Cyprichromis, a Neolamprologus (that will reproduce like crazy), a big school of Synodontis (multipunctatus, lucipinnis, etc.) and maybe a few calvus or something interesting looking. Love the idea of an mbu puffer or some other oddball to give it personality.

Even a big tank like that can be problematic as a New World tank, unless it's South Americans like Heros, Festivums, Geos and acaras (along with silver dollars, chalceus, etc.). A pair of Amphilophus or other big central americans could take over the whole tank if they decide to spawn. That's obviously not going to follow the plan of Texas Holey Rock and would be considerably more challenging with water quality, etc.

It's ideal for a Malawi tank.
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The rock can definitely be changed as well. I just have a bunch of it laying around I was thinking I would use for it. But thank you for your ideas..
 
Gourami Swami said:
Personally would go with tanganyikan cichlids, will give more variety and less likely to hybridize with each other (still possible with soem species of course)
A bunch of Calvus or similar, shell dweller colonies on the bottom, julidochromis swimmin in the rocks, and some big frontosa tank-bosses.

Lots of ways you could go but the texas holey rock kind of forces you to stick with africans.
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The Texas Rock can be changed, I just have a bunch of it laying around I figured I would use since I already have it..
 
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