Setting up a Lake Malawi Tank

[mostlycichlids]

I keep all three of those...The OB will likely be the most territorial and aggressive....Mine is anyway. my three get along pretty well although the OB is tank boss. My OB is actually BB and I have a RB version as well as a OB!

 

[Lady G]

There is just something about the OBs (all the variations) that I just love!

Those are some nice looking fish!!!! :thumbsup:

Thanks Dog...hope I can figure a way to work them in!!!

 

[Lady G]

Does anyone know any good sites with Pics of Malawi tanks? I have a site that talks about the biotope stuff..but am trying to get some ideas for the tank "look" and am having a problem finding any?
THis is the site I have gone too...http://fish.mongabay.com/biotope_lake_malawi.htm

 

[snoopy65]

www.cichlid-forum.com/tanks/ has a bunch of different tanks by different people that you can look through to get ideas.

 

[ibr3ak]

I keep all three of those...The OB will likely be the most territorial and aggressive....Mine is anyway. my three get along pretty well although the OB is tank boss. My OB is actually BB and I have a RB version as well as a OB!

Same here, I keep all 3 and ob is probably the more aggressive, not crazy like mbuna, but can stand his own.

 

[mostlycichlids]

Here is some you can browse Lady G!

http://www.malawimayhem.com/gallery.php

 

[Lady G]

Same here, I keep all 3 and ob is probably the more aggressive, not crazy like mbuna, but can stand his own.

LOL..must be the crazy coloration of them, they just have that crazy, don't mess with me look to em!erv:

www.cichlid-forum.com/tanks/ has a bunch of different tanks by different people that you can look through to get ideas.

Here is some you can browse Lady G!

http://www.malawimayhem.com/gallery.php

Thanks guys! I will look through them!

 

[Lady G]

So I made it to the rock place today...I am not at all happy with the way I have it placed in and will be moving it around soon, I wanna do like 2 "piles" instead of one all the way across thing..but here is the rock I got, and can ya believe I only paid 6 bucks for it all!

 

[DAVIDFBT]

There are a couple of rocks I would be iffy about in their current position in your tank. Have you given them a good shake to see if they are totally secure? Nice rock pile!

 

[Lady G]

Oh, I'm not leaving it like that...I started with a thought, and well it ended not exactly how I wanted it, so I'll be re stacking most of em. Just takin a bit of a break LMAO, after washing sand, washing..boiling and scrubbing rock then adding them all in...yeah I'm giving it just a minute then I'll be back at it. Knowing me I'll move 20 more times and still not be completely happy with iterv: