Thanks Jpap, ive not seen shellies locally but ive seen a few different people on here selling them, as well as aquabid but i know there is someone somewhat local that has the ocellatus as i saw some up for auction a couple months ago at a COAST meeting, i just need to figure out who it was -- so the shelldwellers shouldnt be too difficult. Ive seen a couple different types of julidochromis between various fish stores also so those shouldnt be hard to get either. Cyps are the only ones of the bunch i dont see a lot of(though to be fair ive not been on the search for them at all until...well now i will be) so adding them later when everything is more established is quite fine with me. Im rather excited for this tank, ive loved the idea of a tanganyikan aquarium for a while but have yet to go through with it(considered multis for smaller tanks a couple times) and now im going to do it on a larger scale i think its going to look amazing.