African cichlids
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HUKIT
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Malawi's is a to general to determine a stock list, are they mbuna, peacocks or haps? This will help us in determing what other fish are appropriate with your tank.
HUKIT
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That certainly does complicate stocking due to differnt sizes and aggression issues. What size are the fish now? Can you break down your current stock list to us? Generally you don't want to mix mbuna with haps/peacocks due to their hyper aggressive behavior but it can work depending on what fish are in there now.
HUKIT
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I think the most important thing about stocking africans is the male to female ratio of the tank. This will limit aggresion, hybridlization, stress and ultimately the balance of the tank. What your aiming for is 1m-5f, once this is settled then you determine stock. Is this a 5ft tank? If so I would think you could keep 5 spieces and end up with around 30-35 fish.
Look's like the horizontal stripe blue ones look like Johanni and the peacock on the left looks like a Strawberry or Dragon Blood. I can't tell the others without closer pics.
Look's like the horizontal stripe blue ones look like Johanni and the peacock on the left looks like a Strawberry or Dragon Blood. I can't tell the others without closer pics.
HUKIT
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How many of each fish are in there?(how many mbuna, peaccocks and haps). I have been concentrating on breeding peacocks, I currenty breed german reds, sunshine or benga, and taiwian reefs to name a few. I would ditch the mbuna concenrate on the peacocks.
