First Mbuna tank updated!

[Colwell]

This is my first Mbuna tank previously post a photo of my set up and had many responses saying I needed a little more rock work in the front. It has a home made rock/cave wall with 26 caves for them to hide in. Minus the slate save I made all the other rocks are new. Let me know what you think all questions or conserns are always welcome!

 

[Colwell]

This is my first Mbuna tank previously post a photo of my set up and had many responses saying I needed a little more rock work in the front. It has a home made rock/cave wall with 26 caves for them to hide in. Minus the slate save I made all the other rocks are new. Let me know what you think all questions or conserns are always welcome!

Here is the Mbuna set up should be getting the fish lasts today or tmr

 

[Taylor-tgod]

Love it!!

 

[JimmyG]

good job...

 

[Iceman29]

That looks great. Good luck with your fish. Let us know what you end up with

 

[Colwell]

Fish are all in the tank now I got all small juveniles so there is no way of sexing them yet. I have a mix of black acei, kenyi, auratus, bumble bee, yellow labs and sunshine peacocks. Please post any question comments or concerns!

 

[Colwell]

Hard to get good pics but I did what I could for now

 

[AngelWings]

Gorgeous fish! Looks like they are loving your rock set up too.

 

[Crawdaddy]

I love that flat rock, what is it?

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Good looking tank nice job

 

[Colwell]

I love that flat rock, what is it?

I bought larger pieces of slate then just tossed them on the ground lol. I siliconed them together, the background and the slate cave are both firsts

 

[Ranae storm]

Nice tank

 

[mattrox]

Your setup looks really good. The mbuna will feel right at home. Some of the fish you have got have an agressive temprament so it should be a tank with lots of action.

Peacocks may or may not stand up to the level of aggression (territorial) that some mbuna display. Peacocks can be aggressive too, but usually it is competition for females that drive it. Just be prepared for it and you might have to move the peacocks out in the future.

 

[Colwell]

Thanks for the feed back and yes I am aware there may be problems down the road maybe even with the bumble bees I have too. We will see how they grow up and there personalities grow too. The plan is/was to over stalk the tank and introduce them together as juveniles so there is a less chance of having to remove them later

 

[Andrew McFadden]

Thanks for the feed back and yes I am aware there may be problems down the road maybe even with the bumble bees I have too. We will see how they grow up and there personalities grow too. The plan is/was to over stalk the tank and introduce them together as juveniles so there is a less chance of having to remove them later

That really isn't the right way to go about it. The key is to try to not over stock and have a good mix. Sometimes over stocking and being under stocked doesn't work. I've seen 1 mature fish kill one after another in a mixed stock aggressiveness tank. Good luck I hope it doesn't come to that.