My cichlids..

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ikevi;1597747; said:
Ok is the blurry picture a lot like this guy?
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1786

Now just so you know haps/peacocks are not rock dwealers so don't go overboard with the rocks. (Mbuna need them... will talk more about them after you answer my first question.)

As for getting pictures... Well I end up taking ~150... I like ~40 and I show ~20. But for getting things in focus, try focusing on a rock at the distance you want to take a shot of the fish... then you need to keep that focus and snap the fish at the right distance. It take time but I find you get the most focused pictures that way. Then for lighting... well albinos do very poorly with flash for many cameras... so you might have to play around with the iso, and other settings. But if you use flash get very close to the glass and hold the camera tilted. It takes a while to get used to and you will still have flash spots sometimes.... But practice is about the only way you will get better. (After you get to a stage of understanding more subtle tips can help, but once you get good with your current camera it starts to get to the point were you just need a better camera.)


Anyways full tanks shots I never use flash since they don't work. You just need to light your tank well... But then the OB, and the other maybe red empress do really well with flash, though without flash they can look like an entirely different fish.
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yeah the fish in the blurry pic looks like that one above..


theres plenty of space for swimming thats all the rocks in total im getting even when i up grade to my 120 next year i just have it for some hiding spots and if one can out run or ditch the other ones get me? lol but all behind the rocks and infront and to the top theres plenty of room and people say i can put like 20 cichids in my tank im gonna stick to the four i have now and maybe 2 more tell i get my 120 then i might aim for having more natural and getting females for the ob and the hap if they are both males which i think they are for maybe i can get fry... but thats 1 year away..

thanks for your quick resoponse..
 
Edit... Ok got that down. So just so you know the new guy is a mbuna.

(Will keep updating this post for a little bit give me a second.)

Now I had problems with this type of mbuna and my haps, other people haven't. Only time will tell for you. I tend to like to add rocks in my tanks, and yes there tends to be always swimming space. I just feel I had to warn you about going overboard, since that was basically want I did... then my peacocks/haps started hurting themselves, and eventually they killed themselves off of the rock. I still have rocks just a lot less in the big tank. It takes a while to figure out what is good and what isn't, and I would make sure not to have it too much against the glass so that they don't wedge themselves when swimming around.

But all in all you are well on your way to having a nice looking tank.
 
ikevi;1597770; said:
Edit... Ok got that down. So just so you know the new guy is a mbuna.

(Will keep updating this post for a little bit give me a second.)

Now I had problems with this type of mbuna and my haps, other people haven't. Only time will tell for you. I tend to like to add rocks in my tanks, and yes there tends to be always swimming space. I just feel I had to warn you about going overboard, since that was basically want I did... then my peacocks/haps started hurting themselves, and eventually they killed themselves off of the rock. I still have rocks just a lot less in the big tank. It takes a while to figure out what is good and what isn't, and I would make sure not to have it too much against the glass so that they don't wedge themselves when swimming around.

But all in all you are well on your way to having a nice looking tank.
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thanks bro..

So will the mbuna be fine with my peacocks he was with other peacocks that were pretty big i will try to get a pic of his side looks wounded but that might take a while and he was only small one in that tank and when i was watching the activity he would just kinda be there next to the fake plants staying out of harms way so i had to rescue him maybe he could of been eating..? IDK?

but we will see hot it goes he seems happy now swimin the back of the tank getting use to everything all 4 my fish pretty laid back and plays alot most agressive i got is the albino but time will tell if anything will happen?...
 
Yep, I say if he isn't being bugged or isn't attacking everyone leave him alone. (as for size... well like I said I had problems with these guys ~2 inches constantly nipping at my fryeri's underside... so much that I just bought a 75 for the mbuna... and procedded quickly down the path of M.T.S.)
 
so with yours you had problems and got a 75 gallon just for mbunas?
 
Yah, but the tank they were originally in was a 135. (And I had other mbuna, labs some zebras, albino greshakei.) It allowed me to get some meaner mbuna... But I for one always like my hap/peacocks much better. Anyways you should be fine with just one, just keep and eye out for trouble.
 
ikevi;1597920; said:
Yah, but the tank they were originally in was a 135. (And I had other mbuna, labs some zebras, albino greshakei.) It allowed me to get some meaner mbuna... But I for one always like my hap/peacocks much better. Anyways you should be fine with just one, just keep and eye out for trouble.
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ok thank you and i share will hes really small right now so i dont think anything should happen and all my 4 fish max size i think is like 6.5 for the biggest one..

anywyas thanks for your help


and whats our other foods i can feed my africans other the the tropical pellets that they enjoy.. i would like to feed them more of a variety?
 
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