what do you think of my stock?

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AquariumLover

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i just got my 75gal up and running. i haven't stocked it yet, but i'm going to stock it as folows:

4 red zebras
4 yellow labs
2 albino socolofi
2 blue zebras
1 empress cichlid
 
I think it sounds like a good list. Watch the red zebras though. I have one that killed everything in the tank with it. It now resides in my 125 gallon tank with my oscars and other large fish.
 
your back mate.

sounds okay but theres other nice fish apart from them

what about replacing the 2 blue zebras with mangianos?

i would do

1m 4f yellow labs (yellow fish)
1m 3f red zebs (red/orange fish)
1m 3f mangianos (Dark blue / light blue fish)
1m 2f albino socolofis (white/pink fish)

That would look Awesome !!! contrasting and not boring

Mangianos look better and are darker blue and better body shape IMO


Red empress are haps so i wouldnt mix them and it would look out of place and are ugly anyway my old male out of my breeding colony was ugly once he got huge.

throw in some bristlenose and youll be set!
 
alright. the reason i wanted the empress was cuz i wanted a big fish. 0=) i looked EVERYWHERE for some of your malawii eye biters and could not find them! :'( like what i may end up doing, although i know it is not recommended, is if the agression from my red zebs gets too out of control, i'll go ahead and sell all my other fish and get a midas with my zebs. xD (that should be interesting) unless i can find malawii eye biters, then i'll get some of those instead.
 
i've never seen one in real life, but pictures of them seem to me that the males are BEAUTIFUL and the females are almost as beautiful just not as sparkley. am i accurate? and supposing i sell all my fish BUT my red zebras and snow white socolofi, can i keep 1m/3f eye biters in my 75?
 
johnny_1993;1881663; said:
1m 4f yellow labs (yellow fish)
1m 3f red zebs (red/orange fish)
1m 3f mangianos (Dark blue / light blue fish)
1m 2f albino socolofis (white/pink fish)

Red empress are haps so i wouldnt mix them and it would look out of place and are ugly anyway my old male out of my breeding colony was ugly once he got huge.
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Huh? Anyways I agree on not mixing the two types haps/peacocks with mbuna. Not that they wont work with a lot of luck, just that even when they do work the more expensive haps/peacocks never look as good as if there aren't any mbuna.

Now maingano was the old name. They are now called Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos. I doubt you will be able to find these fish very easily.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=756

Now then, why the 4 female labs? These are some of the few mbuna that if you get good quality you just can't tell them apart aside from venting. But it doesn't matter since 1 f to 4 m is just fine.

And ontop of that good luck on sexing Pseudotropheus socolofi (Albino).

Finally I have to disagree on the comment of the Protomelas taeniolatus. But well to each there own I guess.

(Note I see the question about switching to eyebiters. I would say it is going to have to be an all or nothing thing. But again with a lot of patience anything can be made to work...) And BTW the females while at least having some color are not as nice.
 
ok. thanks. [: the only reason i know my socolofi are female is that they hold every month or so. and what is wrong with the eye biters and red zebras? jhutch said he was able to keep the zebras with oscars! =O or is the reason not agression level? i'm so confused on what i want to do! i think that in the end i'll end up getting a big fish that will take up the tank all to itself. just don't know what to do with my current fish. i'll most likely end up auctioning them off, but i want to keep my red zebras at least! idk! is there a way i can keep my current stock AND get a big fish?
 
The actual problem is zebras tend to pick on the haps/peacocks. (Till the haps get big enough to eat them...) And O's are much more aggressive and any hap I have had. (Heck I kepts O's with zebras for ~6 months then my O's decided they didn't like the zebras... and so I had no zebras in that tank suddenly)
 
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