Future Tank 50-100gal stocking help

[odinthejd]

I am currently saving up for a tank from 50gallons to 100gallons. I know it's a big jump but I want a bigger tank! I want African Cichlids. I will most likely get texas holley rock or will set up slate in the back to make little homes. I am most likely gonna get a canister filter. What do you think about filter's, lighting, heater, and fish. I am wanting a fish that will be around the size of a electric yellow or smaller. And I want cool colors!

Do you know any breeders of cichlids in the Pacific Northwest? I was hoping around Seattle area!

I have south american cichlids in another tank so don't want any south american's

 

[blue2fyre]

For my 55 gallon mbuna tank I run an eheim 2028 and a cascade 1000. It's overkill but i have plenty of filtration. Pretty much get the largest tank you can afford/have space for. I find 55 gallon to be a great size and it's a tank you can get for a reasonable price new.

For fish I would look into a large group of demasoni(12+) with 7-8 yellow labs. This is a beautiful and active combination. If you get a larger tank you could add some afras(I recomend white top haras) or rusties.

Another great small mbuna is Ps saulosi. Males are blue with black stripes and females are bright yellow.

 

[odinthejd]

Okay. Yeah I have enough space for a good sized tank. It will be in my room so I want something that will distract me from school homework and make me watch the fish lol. Any other ideas? What should I use for bottom dwellers?

 

[blue2fyre]

Syno petricolas are GREAT bottom feeders for a mbuna tank. They are attractive and active.

More smaller mbuna:
Labidochromis sp Hongi
pseudotropheus polit
Pretty much all Cynotilapia afra

 

[odinthejd]

Okay. Would cherry shrimp work or a crawdad or cory cats??

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[blue2fyre]

No to all

Cherry shrimp will be eaten on the spot, the crayfish would make it to it's first molt then would be consumed and the cories would be harassed to death.

Mbuna do best with mbuna. Most syno cats will work in the set up as well.

 

[Fishfiles1]

i would do a sweet tang tank, with some calvus and some gobys and julies

 

[odinthejd]

Yah I don't have 1k-3k to get sw and don't know sw

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[DrgRcr]

Tangs are Tanganyikans, from the lake of the same name, another rift lake in Africa similar to Malawi. The ones fishfiles referred to are from that lake.

 

[odinthejd]

I thought he meant tang sw and gobies are a type of sw so i thought he meant sw!