New setup

[Danyon94]

This is my new tank it's 450 litres is home to 6 cichlids a upside down catfish and 2 clown loaches any suggestions ??

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Looks nice!
It's approximately 118 gallons, is the tank at least 5 feet long? If not it might be too small for your clowns
Also, what cichlids do you have, the upside down might be in trouble
Looks good though!

 

[Danyon94]

It's 4x2 I have a couple of different breeds in there at the moment not to sure because I have received them off a friend but the guys from my fish store approved of the cat fish and the clowns in this tank

 

[Danyon94]

This is my old setup and it was 80ltr but just to small for them all wanted allow them to grow

 

[FishCr8zy]

It's 4x2 I have a couple of different breeds in there at the moment not to sure because I have received them off a friend but the guys from my fish store approved of the cat fish and the clowns in this tank

Well, clowns can get up to a foot so it may be ok.....
Can you get some pics of the cichlids?

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Ok I it's 4 feet long, but 2 feet wide, then the clowns are ok, good luck with it, looks pretty cool!

 

[Danyon94]

This is my cichlids

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Yea I can see you have mbuna I think it will be ok, maybe even with one or two more mbunas and you'll be good

 

[Danyon94]

Also any idea why my catfish is loosing some of his colour I know that there generally a nocturnal fish and tend to get there colour back when they swim more but he's been swimming around for a while now but still no change :/

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

What type of catfish is it?

 

[Danyon94]

Pretty sure he is a upside Down but not to sure mate

 

[aquandrew]

Pretty sure he is a upside Down but not to sure mate

african feather fin cat

 

[Danyon94]

african feather fin cat

Any reasons why he is loosing his colour he is normally a lot darker

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Yea that's definitely an African feather fin cat, AKA false upside down catfish, he will be ok with the mbuna the, you might even want to get him one or two more pals
Did you get lighter substrate in the new tank than you had in the old tank?

 

[aquandrew]

Any reasons why he is loosing his colour he is normally a lot darker

are your water parameters in check? what are you feeding him?

 

[Danyon94]

are your water parameters in check? what are you feeding him?

I'm feeding him algae wafers and on the odd occasion a bit of cucumber

 

[Danyon94]

Yea that's definitely an African feather fin cat, AKA false upside down catfish, he will be ok with the mbuna the, you might even want to get him one or two more pals
Did you get lighter substrate in the new tank than you had in the old tank?

yea it's lighter

 

[aquandrew]

I'm feeding him algae wafers and on the odd occasion a bit of cucumber

algae wafers isn't a sufficient diet for featherfins do you have any catfish shrimp pellets? if not i would get some of those

 

[Danyon94]

algae wafers isn't a sufficient diet for featherfins do you have any catfish shrimp pellets? if not i would get some of those

Thanks mate ill be sure to grab some

 

[Goldfish loach boy]

Yea, algae wafers isn't enough, I feed mine shrimp pellets, also, if the gravel is lighter, there is a chance that it got clearer in color trying to blend in to the gravel