Liz_0401
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello I have been keeping fish for a few years, but have never ventured over into the African Cichlid world. I currently keep multifasciatus shell dweller tank and have kept angelfish in the past, but other then that I have no other cichlid experience.
I currently have a 55 gallon community tank that has been running for about a year. I'm looking for something new and more colorful to have as a show tank in our new home. Any advice you can give me on care and water parameters would be wonderful! I know they need great filtration and it is better to over stock I have talked to a local credited breeder near me and he suggested I stay with the lesser aggressive peacocks and haps to start off with and he suggested between 20-25 fish in the tank any opinions on this?
Here is the stock he has available and I would like to create a stock list from this. I will be buying them as juveniles when I get my tank setup. I am open to other suggestions and types that he doesn't have available, but I like to support local breeders.
Peacocks:
~ Benga
~Lemon Jake
~Blue Regal
~Sunshine
~Ruby Red
~Blue Neon
~Dragon Blood
~Gold Dragon Blood
~Otter Point Jacobfreibergi
~Chitande Type North
~OB
HapS:
~Red Empress
~Z-Rock
~Intermedius
~Star Sapphire
~Blue Dolphin
Also please post your cichlid setups and fish pictures!
Thank you for any help or information you can give me!
I currently have a 55 gallon community tank that has been running for about a year. I'm looking for something new and more colorful to have as a show tank in our new home. Any advice you can give me on care and water parameters would be wonderful! I know they need great filtration and it is better to over stock I have talked to a local credited breeder near me and he suggested I stay with the lesser aggressive peacocks and haps to start off with and he suggested between 20-25 fish in the tank any opinions on this?
Here is the stock he has available and I would like to create a stock list from this. I will be buying them as juveniles when I get my tank setup. I am open to other suggestions and types that he doesn't have available, but I like to support local breeders.
Peacocks:
~ Benga
~Lemon Jake
~Blue Regal
~Sunshine
~Ruby Red
~Blue Neon
~Dragon Blood
~Gold Dragon Blood
~Otter Point Jacobfreibergi
~Chitande Type North
~OB
HapS:
~Red Empress
~Z-Rock
~Intermedius
~Star Sapphire
~Blue Dolphin
Also please post your cichlid setups and fish pictures!
Thank you for any help or information you can give me!
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