72g Bowfront Mbuna Tank

myswtsins said:
Oh no, Afro is one of them! :thud:
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" yeah, so those labidichromis you have... are they Lion's Cove? Cuz I think Lion's Cove have this, I don't know... sensuality about them. I don't really want to buy any, but I'd love to vacuum your gravel, perhaps over a raspberry Martini? " - The Fish-Geek Continental
 
Dude Ethan do i need to worry about you now hehehe yeah i let those folks on craigslist know i am police and they dont think twice about screwing around usually scares them off and they avoid me hehehehe at any rate i hope you are correct austin do not under estimate anyone bro your young..
 
unless shes hot lol....... with my luck it would be some old micheal jackson like guy and id have to punch him in the face. people are freaks these days, its amazing how the world has gotten. you cant even sell fish without weirdos messin with you.
 
AfroCichlid said:
" yeah, so those labidichromis you have... are they Lion's Cove? Cuz I think Lion's Cove have this, I don't know... sensuality about them. I don't really want to buy any, but I'd love to vacuum your gravel, perhaps over a raspberry Martini? " - The Fish-Geek Continental
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:lol: The scary thing is that is similar to what creepy guy #1 would say, about how fish turned him on.

You can never be too careful these days, that's for sure. I always try to bring a buddy & I always let someone know exactly where I am going.
 
True. I guess I sort of take it for granted. I'll post in the free section when we throw something out. I like to time them. They've been here to grab a crusty old garage couch within 15 minutes of posting before.
On the flip side though, I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with my wife being home alone.
 
Upon pulling out all the rock to rescape I discovered my UGJ was not working (sand!) so I decided I obviously did not need it. I pulled it out and replaced it with a full egg crate bottom which gives me SOOO much more freedom in rock placement.

But I just could not decide what to do with this tank! Lace rock & slate looked cool but was so hard to stack, slate alone looked to uniform so even though I don't have enough lace rock I went with just lace rock in a slope. So here is the start of the rescape.

FTS (view from loveseat)
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Left side
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Right side
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View from the couch
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Another angle, sort of after you walk in the front door
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Plans include the addition of fake plants & a rubble pile in the right corner for fry to hide in. I also am getting rid of the HOB because I HATE it (it wouldn't restart after the WC, like always, so I just didn't bother with it) & I need to find a way to hide the blue XP3 intake tube.

I only have 20 Mbuna in this tank right now which is about 10 short of my plans (stupid extra males!). I'm trying to grow out some babies to add later but right now the tank is pretty empty! I must say the aggression level has increase dramatically since I removed the 21 extra males & there is nearly no aggression in in my 30g where they are being housed, overstocking is GOOD! :D
 
I wish lace rock wasn't so heavy, I'd ship you a ton. I like the rockscape, but when I look at that empty spot on the right it screams " Shellie Pit! " to me. Must be the Tang nut in me. I think I would try to enlarge the cave openings a bit and continue it across the whole tank. If you stack the larger pieces at the bottom and build up, adding mid size pieces and then the smaller ones to close caves off or cap top pieces it seems to work well.
Either way it looks great. I like to rearrange my rock-work every now and then just to give it a different look. I love the black substrate, btw.
 
myswtsins, that is an awesome looking tank...i really like the pile slope at the end...and i agree with afrocichlid...it wud look good and also help fishes if the cave openings are bigger...

i really like the OB zebra you got in there...very nice...
 
Thanks for the feedback guys! I bought most of my lace rock by mail because my LFS wanted $6 per lb! I paid $1.50 per lb and had it delivered to my door, much better!

I'd love to open the caves some more but all my pieces are so darn small! I only have 3 pieces that are over 9" long. A lot of those pieces are just barely touching each other to make decent caves.

But there are a lot of caves & about 10 good sized ones that my 5.25" Acei gets in & out of with room to spare. Besides by the time they grow up I will be rearranging the tank again anyways! :p: I have been looking into making my own rock actually. Something I little lighter and semi-sectional for easy dismantling.

That blank spot would be a GREAT shellie pit but I am already unhappy with the "+ scavengers" ruining the purity of my Mbuna tank. :) Don't worry I will get into Tangs soon enough!

Mr. cichlid - Thanks. I have 2 male OBs with great marking that I can't decide on which one to keep. :) I prefer the really orange color of the subdominate males, the dominant ones always get that blue sheen to them and it makes them look washed out.
 
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