Any feedback is welcomed.

[ORKO]

Hey All,
I am currently on my third week of cycling my tank with Nitrates coming down. I wanted to start a cichlid tank because of thier color and look so I used crush coral as substrate but now as I am reading different threads I am wondering if I bit off more than I can chew. My tank is a 30gal which may mean it is too small. So now that my cycling may soon come to an end, I may be stuck with just crush coral and limited live stock. If you all think that maybe it would be better if it was a bigger tank then what can I put in the current tank with the crush coral. Angels? Discus? i am a little bummed out because i was hoping I would be able to keep quite a few cichlid fish. Help if you can. Thanks.

 

[PumaWard]

A 30g is suitable for a few tang species. Check out the shelldwellers (in general), lamprologus, neolamprologus, julidochromis and altolamprologus genuses as well as many others. Theres an article at http://cichlidae.com about dwarf cichlid species from the rift lakes, you may also want to check that out.

HTH

 

[MoJo]

What's the pH of the water right now? Are you more interested in African or Central/South American Cichlids? The pH would help determine that. You could remove haf the coral and replace it with half gravel. Use a lighter gravel and it will be barely noticed. Anyway...check the pH.