New 180 Gallon Cichlid Tank

[mikei]

Hello Everyone,

Kind of a newbie to the hobby, although I have had a cichlid tank for 7 years.

I had a 90 gallon tank for years.

It contained 3 red devils, a black belt, numerous parrots and hybrid parrots, rainbow and a pleco.

Never had problems. My hybrids were born and raised in the tank.

Anyway, my wife and I just purchased a new 180 gallon tank.

I have added 2 green terrors babies, a baby oscar a small JD.

I have ordered from Jeff Rapps a 3 inch Jag, 3 inch Festae and a 3 inch female dovii. They are arriving tomorrow.

The tank has about 250 lbs of mexican lava rock. Plenty of hiding places.

My 9 inch red devil rules the tank but he isn't too authoritative. Occasionally runs off intruders, but not very often.

I am hoping that my new monster fish fit in well with the others. If they do not, I will eventually purchase a new tank.

Give me your thoughts and opinions please!

 

[flyin lizard]

Very nice group of fish you have and hopefully they all get along ,do you still have the 90 as a backup if needed?

 

[midtae]

awesome tank and aquascaping nice fish too/

 

[mikei]

Very nice group of fish you have and hopefully they all get along ,do you still have the 90 as a backup if needed?

No. The 90 started to bow. That is why we moved to the 180 gallon tank. But, we had been talking about upgrading for a while. When the tank started to bow, it just "rushed" things a bit.

I do not over feed the fish, so I am hoping the growth of the new BIG three will be somewhat slow.

Thank you for your comments.

Mike

 

[dominicolas]

Very Very nice aquarium, but a bit heavy on the gravel.

 

[famous323]

nice

 

[wtf bluepoles]

Awesome tank

 

[Dmaan.]

VERY NICE TANK.
i recommend hiding places that a red devil cannot get it's face into.
good luck though, nice fish!

 

[woofy]

i agree with the above poster, it would look nice with less gravel too i like the parrots, i love blood parrots

 

[pdbrady]

What?! I like the gravel. To each his own. That's an interesting tank. Awesome coloration in those fish. Is the striped parrot a parrot cross with something?