Yeah but what are you wanting typical Malawi Mbuna where fish only reach the 5 to 6" range or Haps that reach the 15" range..
How you been, Mike? Man... sorry I have not been around here much... I have been heavy into MFK these days. My tanks have really evolved, man. I now have two 125s, a 55, a 75 and a 33. The 75 is a saltwater tank, if you can believe that! LOL...
Anyway, since one of my 125s is a nice CA community... which was not easy to pull off... LOL... the other 125 has a breeding pair of zonatums in them. But I'm kinda getting bored wtih 'em, honestly. And my 55 gallon is an SA tank. So, since I have one CA tank, one SA tank, and one SW tank, I thought... why not have one Old Word tank? Except this time, instead of doing Tangs... maybe do a Malawi... something with lots of color and activity. So here I am, planning it out.
Okay... backstory done. To answer your question... I do not want monsters in this tank. So any fish over 8" is too large for what I am going for. Basically, I kinda want an slightly overstocked explosion of color and activity... but without the fighting. So I was thinking maybe peacocks and smaller haps? I'm not sure the approximate number of fish I could do, with this in mind. But I want as many colors as possible... blues... reds... yellows... whites... blacks... whatever I may not be thinking of! LOL...
So I'm hoping for some suggestions... ideas... or maybe folks can tell me what they are doing... and I can kind of hodge podge a plan together, based off what would seem to work. This particular 125 gallon tank is next to my saltwater tank, so I thought it'd be cool to have a freshwater tank filled with super color, and a saltwater tank filled with super color, side-by-side! LOL... So, what might you suggest I consider, Mike (and anyone else who cares to jump in)? Thanks!
-Rich