I'm planning on building a African Cichlid tank. I decide to do a lake malawi build with cichlids from this lake. This tank will be a 55 gallon all glass aquarium, and I'll have a marineland C-360 canister filter on this aquarium, and a 300w heater.
The aquascape I thought about using Texas Holey rocks, but if I can find limestone locally would it be good to use instead of the holey rock?
When it comes to the water chemistry this is where it gets really vague with me.
What PH level should be maintain?
What water hardness needs to be maintain?
what other water quality should be maintain besides the 2 above.
With this type of build should I have live plants in the tank, The aquascape will be a rock structure with a sand bottom, and might have small pebbles in the substrate.
Then when it comes to the lighting, I'm planning on getting a nova extreme 2x54w fixture. Will this be enough or to much lighting for a cichlid tank?
As stated in the first paragraph, I'm planning on using a marineland C-360 canister filter. will this be enough filtration, or should I also consider adding a hob filter along with the canister.
What malawi cichlids shouldn't be mix. I'm not sure about what can be together and shgouldn't be together because of aggression level of the cichlids especially with malawi cichlids.
I know there are more questions but my mind just went blank while writing this thread. When they do come back I'll post those questions.
The aquascape I thought about using Texas Holey rocks, but if I can find limestone locally would it be good to use instead of the holey rock?
When it comes to the water chemistry this is where it gets really vague with me.
What PH level should be maintain?
What water hardness needs to be maintain?
what other water quality should be maintain besides the 2 above.
With this type of build should I have live plants in the tank, The aquascape will be a rock structure with a sand bottom, and might have small pebbles in the substrate.
Then when it comes to the lighting, I'm planning on getting a nova extreme 2x54w fixture. Will this be enough or to much lighting for a cichlid tank?
As stated in the first paragraph, I'm planning on using a marineland C-360 canister filter. will this be enough filtration, or should I also consider adding a hob filter along with the canister.
What malawi cichlids shouldn't be mix. I'm not sure about what can be together and shgouldn't be together because of aggression level of the cichlids especially with malawi cichlids.
I know there are more questions but my mind just went blank while writing this thread. When they do come back I'll post those questions.
