false Marine!!?

[Shekoi]

Once i get my larger tank set up and the fish from my 40g have been moved i wont to turn the 40g into a mini false marine tank.
false marine? i mean blue lighting, coral sand, limestone rocks (ones with holes form LFS)

So i need ideas on stocking it, colourful cichlids will be the best to give the fake look and i really want cichlids.

Stock
1 BN Pl*co - get algae down.
x Other fish - blue, yellow and orange colours perfered. what is suitable.

Best lighting 10000K or 20000K any named brands?
Filters would fuval 304 be ok? others?
Food?

Cheers Shekoi

[judobadger]

you will probably get a better response in the cichlid forumn.

[Shekoi]

decided against BN because of the pH difference they all prefer. :dive2:

Going for lake tanganyika fish i think

Lemon cichlid - lamprologus leleupi
Masked julie - julidochromis transcriptus
or convict julie - julidochromis regani regani
meleagris shelldweller - lamprologus stappersi
or big eyed multi - neolamprologus similis.

if i went for malawi

what would be a nice combination?
i like yellow labs.

Cheers shekoi

[xhibition]

you will probably get a better response in the cichlid forumn.

what kind of response is that?
Try male peacocks or mbuna, or yellow labs if you want lake malawi. Lelepui and julies dont mix well with shell dwellers. Lelupui have one of the worst attitudes of lake tang(IMO). You can house Altolamprologus Calvus or Alto. Compressics. Dont forget for Lake Tangs you need a very high ph and extremely hard water. Yellow labs can be mixed with certain Tangs just do the research because most of their diets differ.

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

Yeah i wouldnt reccommend mixing Malawi and Tang. IMO malawi's have more color, and Tangs can be very unpredicatble in thier behaviour.

You could do Yellow labs, P. acei, P. socolofi, M. estheare "red zebra", maybe a M. Johanii. With mbuna in a 40 you could probebly fit about 10 fish. Malawis have a vareity of colors, and it really depends on what is available to you at the pet store. Also, depends on what you prefer.

HTH
-Diana

[mooman]

As much as I like the multis and similis (wanted some but struck out at recent auction), I've heard two opposite accounts of their behavior. One person said they hunt in packs, and tore up fish three time their size. Someone else said larger fish will kill them. After some additional reading, I think it has to do with the size of their populations. Since they are highly colonial, a pair or two will get picked on in a community tank. Add four or five more pairs, and they are the ones doing the picking. Maybe someone with more experience can conferm this

[1865]

what kind of response is that?
It seemed like an honest and helpful one to me. It was short, but didn't seem to be intentionally rude.

[Vetro]

doesn't limestone raise the hardness? or does that not matter in this type of tank?

[racingjason]

I did just that in my tank for a while, I used Malawi cichlids but I wish I had gone with Tang. They just look more "exotic", I could see some fronts in there if the tank was larger.