What to do? Please offer suggestions...

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Hello all,

I've posted several pics of my tanks in the past but here is a quick update:
75 gallon : 3 electric blue haps male
1 electric blue hap female
1 compressiceps male
1 yellow lab male
3 yellow lab female (1 holding, 1 just released fry)
1 red zebra male
1 royal pleco
1 common pleco
3 clown loaches

29 gallon : 8 hybrid yellow lab / scofoli mix (born xmas day)
1 common pleco

20 gallon : 5 electric blue hap fry (very small born 2 weeks prior)
1 yellow lab fry

In doing some research I know that the mbuna and haps don't generally live together and so I want to make a change for the better. I feel that I'm not feeding the fish correctly due to the labs mostly eating veggies and the haps mostly eating meat. Here are my questions, please let me know your thoughts and what you would do...no matter what that is.

This is based on the idea that the mbuna can live in the smaller tank and the haps in the larger tank?

1. Is the 29 gallon large enough to house all my labs and baby labs?
2. Is the 75 gallon large enough to house the haps once full grown?
3. Will the hap fry survive if I just let nature take it's course?
4. Same question for the labs...in the 29 if I move them?
5. What would you do? (leave it alone, move fish around, what?)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions...
 
29 too small...

75 fine...

Fry may survive may not... I had some survive in the mix

Labs will have some fry survive if you have rock.... 29 way too small

well if it is the food, I feed all mine NLS... so that would solve that problem... now I removed my male hap from the mbuna tank... was not doing well in it... Others have, but not him...

I say get another 75 and call it a day...
 
The 20 and 29 seem to be the best for the GO of the fry. You might just keep things how they are.
 
So, I likes Mikes idea on another 75, actually if I do that I'll more than likely go with a 90...the only obstacle is my wife though...not such an easy sell
TAZ2478 - I feed my guys a bunch of things...Veggie, Protein, and Color enhancer flakes, I have frozen brine shrimp and also dried shrimp (it floats). They all eat all of it, I know the eyebiter even though he eats what is in there he really likes a meat diet.

Muske - I agree on the 29 being great for the fry. My only issue is that the hybrid fry ate all my baby labs except for one. Weird because they weren't much bigger. I do like the idea of continuing to leave fry in the 29.


Tezr - Not too sure, I like my hybrids because they were my first born so my wife is somewhat attached to them. I have a brother a few hours away and we swap fish occasionaly so who knows I'll do with them. They are getting really big though.
 
I've added the fry that were released on xmas day into the 75 with 4 electric blues, 3 clown loach, 2 yellow lab, 1 red zebra, 1 royal pleco, and 1 common pleco, and gave my brother the eyebiter.

Now I have the 29 with a holding lab and 5 electric blue fry and 1 lab fry. They are all doing fantastic.

The 8 xmas babies are large enough to feel safe and stay out of the rocks feeding and swimming around.

I am going to get another tank fairly soon and it will be a big one...
 
Hey J, everything has to be bigger here in TX right, problem solved, lol. I'm w/ Mike, for the most part I feed Dainichi & NLS & have 15 different sp. from 3 lakes all together & they're fine. I always start my feeding w/ veg. spiru based flakes & pellets to fill up the herb's b4 moving on to anything else so my mbuna's/herb's are filling up primarily on veg first & don't really consume "to much" other. Hope that made sense. If you have a chance chk out http://www.dainichi.com/cichlid_food_specialty_VeggieFX.html really incredible, safe for "everybody" stuff. :)
 
Hello Big,
Thanks I just read that link and I'll give that a shot this week...you said everything is bigger HERE in Texas, are you a Texas fishkeeper?

Thanks again for the information...
 
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