Stock this Aquarium

[Duncan6618]

My vet has a horrible 120 gallon (4'X2'X29") in the waiting area. It only has two fish and is covered with algae because his employee who used to care for it quit. It drives me nuts to look at it so I convinced him to ditch the saltwater and go with Africans so he would have something easy to maintain. He'll pay for the fish, I'll do the work.

So I was thinking mbuna with Holy Rock would look good and be easy for him to maintain. Problem is I have always been into Haps so I'm not too familiar with all the mbuna. So the requirement on fish are nothing too aggressive and nothing too expensive.

The tank is loaded on filtration with a wet dry and a large canister filter. So it can handle a large bioload.

So stock this aquarium

 

[Blue2Fyre]

Hmm

I would start with some yellow labs( Labidochromis Caeruleus), pseudotropheus acei, and rusties(Iodotropheus sprengerae). They are all pretty mild mannered. Then get a group of cynotilapia afra jalo reef or cynotilapia sp"hara" Both are a little more aggressive but should cause much trouble. Get a good size group of each species (6-7). I slightly more expensive route is to get a big group of demasoni(15-20), some acei and labs. Demasoni are really aggressive(to each other) but if kept in a large enough group they don't do much damage.

 

[turtlesrock]

the only thing i could think of at the moment is yellow labs. im not very expeirenced in these kinds of tanks.

 

[why_spyder]

I like Blue2Fyre's suggestions.

 

[MalawiTango]

I think a school of about 30 tropheus 5 colorful petros a couple gobies and a calvus or two would be nice.

 

[Duncan6618]

Well if it were my tank I'd like the tropheus suggestion but I don't think he'll go for that.

I like Blue2Fyre's suggestions too.

 

[timkersh]

I agree with blue2frye. rusties and jalo reefs are awesome. My new cichlid tank just finished cycling so I'll be going up to detroit to get some Jalos and rusties. I have 2 yellow labs and 2 blue johannis in there right now. Good luck!

P.s. I'd start of with juveniles instead of getting big expensive fish to start with. But thats just me.