GAH!! Now I want them..they are gorgeous!!! Now I have to see what fish I would replace them with! Ok, if the Haps are out?
Black water/African Cichlids.
- Thread starter Lady G
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You should get 'em they're great.
How about...
Labidochromis caereulus - 1 male 3 female
Iodotropehues sperengae - 1 male 3 female
Cynotilapia afra - you'll get a nice blue stripey colour morph - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotropheus socolofi albino - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotrophues acei - whichever your prefer purple w yellow fin, 'black' with white fin (Ngara variant) - 1 male 2 female.
You could safely add a couple more females to your fave groups of those, or ditch one group and look at 3 or 4 male peacocks, picking highly different colour variations to avoid conspecific aggression between the peacocks,
That's how I would stock a 55 me
How about...
Labidochromis caereulus - 1 male 3 female
Iodotropehues sperengae - 1 male 3 female
Cynotilapia afra - you'll get a nice blue stripey colour morph - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotropheus socolofi albino - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotrophues acei - whichever your prefer purple w yellow fin, 'black' with white fin (Ngara variant) - 1 male 2 female.
You could safely add a couple more females to your fave groups of those, or ditch one group and look at 3 or 4 male peacocks, picking highly different colour variations to avoid conspecific aggression between the peacocks,
That's how I would stock a 55 me
Well that looks good to me!! THANKS!!!
Now if I did all these would that pretty much rule out the Synodontis petricola?
Now if I did all these would that pretty much rule out the Synodontis petricola?
Well, we will see then. They are not something I was majorly counting on getting...Paul just told me about them, and I looked em up and thought if possible I may like some, I really liked their look.
mostlycichlids
Cichlid Specialist
Good work and a good stok for beginner Mbuna keeper.You should get 'em they're great.
How about...
Labidochromis caereulus - 1 male 3 female
Iodotropehues sperengae - 1 male 3 female
Cynotilapia afra - you'll get a nice blue stripey colour morph - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotropheus socolofi albino - 1 male 2 female
Pseudotrophues acei - whichever your prefer purple w yellow fin, 'black' with white fin (Ngara variant) - 1 male 2 female.
You could safely add a couple more females to your fave groups of those, or ditch one group and look at 3 or 4 male peacocks, picking highly different colour variations to avoid conspecific aggression between the peacocks,
That's how I would stock a 55 me
I suggested these because Synodontis compliment any Mbuna tank IMO! With the stock list Coler suggestes it wouldn't hurt to have a school of 3-4 of them they love to school.
Ok..cool, THANKS!!!!!
Now, I just hope that LFS carries what I am wanting or can order them so I don't have to order them. There are a couple other LFS up there..but the first 2 places I called (when I was calling about the LR) didn't even carry cichlids at all!
So I made my "journey" to the LFS...what was suppose to be a 45 minute drive ended up being almost 2 hours LMAO!!!!!!!!!! OMG, I made it to my exit and there was road construction and I ended up the wrong way and on the wrong side of this city!!! I pulled into a gas station to find out how to get where I'm going and of course the guy had no idea the road or place I was talking about...he points me to a map on the wall across the room...that is were it got even more fun I go over to this huge map (the town has a pop of 200,000 I believe) I look at this thing and I think ok...so where am I...it didn't have one of those "you are here" things on it, so I go back up to the guy and I'm like "sooooo, can you tell me where I'm at?" OMG, the ppl in the place looked at me all silly, and he was like on the corner of such and such...I was like ok, and I go back over to this map and I'm standing there looking at all these roads wondering where in the world the roads were he told me (I had know idea really even which end of town I was at..this other guy walks over and is like "where are you trying to go" I tell him and he didn't know either..but at least he knew where I was and headed me in the right direction to one of the roads I knew the name of. So I'm off and on my way again, it takes me about 15 minutes or so to get to the road and I get going until I find another place to pull in, since no one on the other side of town knew where the road was. I go in ask..."can ya help me find Plaza rd." the guy didn't know LMAO!!!! So guess what...he points me to a map in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The pepsi guy was over stocking and came and helped me. Well, finally I find this place. I go in and tell the guy I brought some LR in and he looks at it, well in the end I got 115.00 in store credit. It was a small place but the stock looked really nice and really healthy, I liked the store and the guys working were really nice and helpful so I am glad I made it there. I ended up getting 3 pieces of slate rock and some filter media. He also told me he could order what fish I needed as long as his guy can get them!!!
So that was my day..LMAO!
So that was my day..LMAO!
