Suggestions on my tank...

[Sic_Maggot13]

ok so i have a 200 gallon coming in next week and im either keeping it or selling it for more than i paid for it or keeping it. im getting a eheim pro III to start of with and all the bio media. i was going to get the cichlid gravel to make the water more hard but i might eventually get a pleco so thinking sand, what do you guys think? im going to get a few big hunks of lace rock and thats about it. i already know im going to mix the lakes because the fish never read a book that said they cant be in the same tank. anything i should know about? how many fish should i start out with? just pretty much anythingggg i need to know as i have only had a community tank before. i work at **************** so i can pretty much get any kind of cichlid too

 

[pcfriedrich]

If you can sell it for more than you paid for it (including shipping and other cost) then sell it and buy another! make a proffit!

 

[pcfriedrich]

diffinately get a frontosa, and go with sand (im pretty sure they make sand that is ideal for african lake cichlids). other than that, I'm not too into Africans (yet, just a matter of time).

and nevermind the "make a profit" post I made before. working for a fish website, you'd never get to own a tank for yourself if you had that attitude.

 

[Sic_Maggot13]

i actually didn't mean i could get the tank for cheap through my work, i found it on craigslist and the people just wanted it gone so i said here is 300 for the stand, 200 gallon tank and canopy. going to clean it up and post it for 500 OBO and buy a 150 most likely. only reason i wanted that gravel was because it was made for cichlids. i will definatly have a front but i was wondering around how many fish i could keep in a 150 gallon? guy at local pet store said about 40 cichlids and he has about 4 tanks of just them and has been breeding them for years but that seems like alot.

 

[addicted2cichlids]

i actually didn't mean i could get the tank for cheap through my work, i found it on craigslist and the people just wanted it gone so i said here is 300 for the stand, 200 gallon tank and canopy. going to clean it up and post it for 500 OBO and buy a 150 most likely. only reason i wanted that gravel was because it was made for cichlids. i will definatly have a front but i was wondering around how many fish i could keep in a 150 gallon? guy at local pet store said about 40 cichlids and he has about 4 tanks of just them and has been breeding them for years but that seems like alot.

are you serious? so you just bought a used 200 gallon for 3 bills and want to flip it for 5 bills? good luck with that! anyways, what is it that you do at **************** , bag fish? id think you would have some sort of knowledge!
google works!

 

[johnny_1993]

depends. if you go with a hap and peacock tank like i'd do like 30-40 fish
i you do a mbuna tank 50-60 fish
if you do just frontosa like 15-25

keep them together dont mix haps with mbuna there diets are too diferent!

 

[addicted2cichlids]

depends. if you go with a hap and peacock tank like i'd do like 30-40 fish
i you do a mbuna tank 50-60 fish
if you do just frontosa like 15-25

keep them together dont mix haps with mbuna there diets are too diferent!

he hasnt read any books saying that you cant mix africans so hes gonna do it! good try though.

 

[Sic_Maggot13]

are you serious? so you just bought a used 200 gallon for 3 bills and want to flip it for 5 bills? good luck with that! anyways, what is it that you do at **************** , bag fish? id think you would have some sort of knowledge!
google works!

ok well thing is i bought the tank not even thinking about the weight in my condo, so i at least want to get my money back and i think that 300 bucks for a 200 gallon tank, stand and canopy is a good price. its not like i bought it to make a profit off it. i just got a job there and i dont deal with alot of fish just mostly computer stuff like ordering, i do have tons of knowledge in communtity tanks but we dont really do many cichlids. oh yeah and what about one of the african catfish in there? i think i will stay away from a pleco thanks again

depends. if you go with a hap and peacock tank like i'd do like 30-40 fish
i you do a mbuna tank 50-60 fish
if you do just frontosa like 15-25

keep them together dont mix haps with mbuna there diets are too diferent!

so i just looked and think im snatching up a 6 foot 135 gallon and going with all peacocks and haps except maybe a bigger frontosa, one calvus and one brichardi. does that sound a little better? thinking around having arount 35 fish at the end of it. how many should i start out with at first and any tips? sorry if i sound like an idiot, like i said cichlids are pretty new to me and i love them already

he hasnt read any books saying that you cant mix africans so hes gonna do it! good try though.

first off if you read my post i said the FISH haven't read the books telling them they cant be together BUT i didn't really know that their diet was different.

 

[mike dunagan]

If you do a hap peacock tank then do just that... Start mixing too much and you lose fish. May work short run, but life time not so great. I would either go with a tang tank with fronts and some julies and comps. OR the peacock hap tank and call it a day. Then you can still have a pleco. All these fish would prefer the sand.

 

[Sic_Maggot13]

If you do a hap peacock tank then do just that... Start mixing too much and you lose fish. May work short run, but life time not so great. I would either go with a tang tank with fronts and some julies and comps. OR the peacock hap tank and call it a day. Then you can still have a pleco. All these fish would prefer the sand.

well i dont really need a pleco, any of you guys have the african catfish? also im either getting one eheim pro II 2028 and then down the rode get another OR get a eheim pro III 2080 and just run that. both of those setups would be around the same GPH but the III would have 1.5 liters more of media and the II would have more mechanical. and i was going to use the saltwater coral beause it is small like sand and still helps the water stay hard. probably going to just stick with peacocks and haps then but would about 35 be ok in a 135? anything else i should know? im going to have the tank set up in about 2 weeks.