Now don't freak out. There's no adult cichlids in here. 
My brother had an Eclipse Explorer tank that a friend of mine set up for him with a pair of goldfish. I think we can all guess how that ended. Not well.
But either way, he told me that he didn't really have much use for the tank and didn't feel like getting more fish, so he let me have it. For a while, i used it for Guppy fry, but then i found they were doing better just left in the main tank. Around that time, i noticed a few fry in my 55-gallon Malawi cichlid tank.
So i grabbed a bag of extra small-sized gravel i had laying around and put about an inch in the bottom. I pulled a rock out of my 55-gallon tank, took it outside, and smacked it with a sledge hammer to get a bunch of small rock pieces. I stacked them up in the 2-gallon, added an Oto for algae control, and the two Red Zebra fry that i could catch and now I've got Mini Malawi! It should be a good home for them until they're big enough to avoid being eaten in the main tank.
My brother had an Eclipse Explorer tank that a friend of mine set up for him with a pair of goldfish. I think we can all guess how that ended. Not well.
But either way, he told me that he didn't really have much use for the tank and didn't feel like getting more fish, so he let me have it. For a while, i used it for Guppy fry, but then i found they were doing better just left in the main tank. Around that time, i noticed a few fry in my 55-gallon Malawi cichlid tank.So i grabbed a bag of extra small-sized gravel i had laying around and put about an inch in the bottom. I pulled a rock out of my 55-gallon tank, took it outside, and smacked it with a sledge hammer to get a bunch of small rock pieces. I stacked them up in the 2-gallon, added an Oto for algae control, and the two Red Zebra fry that i could catch and now I've got Mini Malawi! It should be a good home for them until they're big enough to avoid being eaten in the main tank.
