Pics of my Africans (55g) Inside

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Varying pics of my Africans. There are three species in this tank. Yellow Labs, Blue Johanni, and the most recent addition, a procambarus alleni, or Blue Crayfish.

Pics start while I was cycling a few months ago and lead up to tonight, one day after adding my crayfish, hence the addition of the lava rock and fish halfway through. =)

Let me know what you think!
 
Very nice! Gotta love that dragon decoration!
 
They look great - I love your crayfish; I kept one for a while with africans and found they were more than able to sort him out - in fact I returned him because it wasn't fair on the crayfish, but my tank is just a little it too small to have given him enough of his own space.
 
Coler said:
They look great - I love your crayfish; I kept one for a while with africans and found they were more than able to sort him out - in fact I returned him because it wasn't fair on the crayfish, but my tank is just a little it too small to have given him enough of his own space.
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Thus far (only been two days) he hasn't messed with the fish and the fish haven't messed with him that I can tell. They swim up to him, he raises his claws, and they back off. If I notice any of them picking on one another I will step up and move him to his own tank.
 
Debating on whether or not to add more rock or maybe some plants. I have a planted tank already and it's beautiful, but a real hassle as well. I hate to use plastic plants though, they usually look terrible.

Oh, I also wanted to ask you guys about Red Peacock Cichlids. Are they safe to keep with my current stock? If they are, how many would I need to keep of that particular breed? I know I am fairly full right now, but would it be possible to add one or two? If not, that's fine. I am patient and can wait until I lose a few of these, hopefully from old age.
 
Looks good, definitely more rock :)

It's advised to keep a more aggressive peacock species in an mbuna tank, like aulonocara jacobfreibergi. I've recently added a small (really small :) ) aulonocara dragon blood to my all male tank and so far it hasn't seen ANY aggression from other bigger mbuna (either because it's still small and poses no threat or maybe it's a different specie and mbuna are too busy duking it out amongst themselves, will just have to wait and see when it grows).
 
I don't know about keeping them for life with 16 mbuna, but while growing out you have the room to put in a couple of peacocks and see if they come on. I'd try sat 1 male each of say three distinct colourations including the ones we're talking about.
 
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