new 90 gal tank set up

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African Freak

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Hey im pretty new to this, but ive been reading like crazy for the last couple of weeks, and went out and bought a 48x24x18, 90 gal tank. Atm i have a 2ft with 1 prices cichlid 1 albino peacock and 2x electric yellows. I know its a random mix but they were all chosen without much research.
Basically Im now looking for some stocking advise with maybe 1 or 2 breading pairs?. ill be running a Fluval 405 as well as an in tank filter of about 1000 lph, with a spray bar.

so will I need an air stone?

do you guys think that's enough filtration?
is
crushed coral ok for substrate?
thanks heaps for any help.
 
African Freak;2033920; said:
Hey im pretty new to this, but ive been reading like crazy for the last couple of weeks, and went out and bought a 48x24x18, 90 gal tank. Atm i have a 2ft with 1 prices cichlid 1 albino peacock and 2x electric yellows. I know its a random mix but they were all chosen without much research.
Basically Im now looking for some stocking advise with maybe 1 or 2 breading pairs?. ill be running a Fluval 405 as well as an in tank filter of about 1000 lph, with a spray bar.

so will I need an air stone?

do you guys think that's enough filtration?
is
crushed coral ok for substrate?
thanks heaps for any help.
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Well....not sure what some of your post means...but no, you do not need an airstone either way. I'd have more filtration, but that's just me. I like to have at least 10 times the turnover at the least. Not sure how many gph a Fluval 405 is though. My FLuval FX5's are rated about 625 gph after they're stuffed full of media. You have to account for the loss in gallonage per hour once the filter has media in it.
Breeding pairs of Cichlids is a bad idea beacause they'll make life miserable for the other Cichlids in the tank. My opinion anyway...from what I understood.
 
remember lake cichlids do not require as high a turnover rate as river fish. 10 is not need unless you over stock the tank by a lot. Lake fish are fine with 4 times turn over. So I would shoot for 6-8 depending on over stocking...

Still waiting to understand the rest...
 
Yeah sorry some of that did not make sense, What i ment by 2 ft is a 2 foot tank with about 11 gallons,. and i ment princess cichlid. its a eolamprologus brichardi, i think. I want to have an all malawi tank, is it possible to mix mbuna and haps?
cool well at the moment im on about 6 turn over for the filtration. roughly what numbers of fish could i go for?
 
well Neolamp is a tang... Lab is a mbuna, peacock is a peacock. Currently you can mix what you have. I keep peacocks with tangs. I would not recommend anymore mbuna if you want tangs and peacocks in the tank.Haps could join your current setup as long as they are smaller when full grown.
 
Thanks for the help,
my LFS currently has "crocodile rock" labelled malawi's that look like venustus, but he recons they are a different breed that don't grow as big, but he has no idea of the scientific name, are you aware of what they might be?
 
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