help with combinations of fish

[dubai]

Right! So i have done endless research in preparation of my 130cm x 45cm x 65cm (380l / 100 US Gal) tank I'm building. Unfortunately where i live, theres a lack of suppliers and even more so good suppliers. I have narrowed down, from a list of fish i can buy. Can someone please give me advice on different combinations and quantities of these fish that will work. I'm new to cichlids so any advice would be much appreciated.

Red Zebra
Tang Eel
Albino Red Top Ice Blue
Jewel Fish
Lionhead
Blue Eye T-Bar
Peacocks
Aurora
Firemouth
Rusty
Five Bar
Electric Yellow Lab
Saulosi
Various Dwarfs

If there are any other "must haves" I will see if I can get hold of them. The shop i've found import from Sunbeam supplier in Singapore (if that helps). Also recommendations of "clean-up fish" would be good. I'm planning sand substrate with rock, wood and fair amount of hardy plants. 2 canister filters (probably eheim) and probably 2 powerheads if necessary. I'm really looking for maximum colour! I find that there's a wealth of information on the net but so much of it is contradicting and confusing!! Help!!

 

[7itanium]

Peacocks, yellow labs, and zebras would be cool

that is the mix I keep in my 55g

just up the schools... I would get like 8-9 of each and you will have a nice tank to start with

 

[ibr3ak]

I would keep red zebras and labs apart (the chances of interbreeding are high, unless you don't care about hybrids) and from the choices you've got peacocks would generally be fine only with peaceful mbuna, like labs and rusties, but even with them you'd have to watch the peacocks because they're alot milder than the mbuna (if it was me I'd keep peacocks with peacocks and mbuna with mbuna).

In your size tank you could have 3-4 different mbuna species (of around 1:5 ratio, more if you choose to only go with 3 species (or dwarfs like saulosi), just make sure it's a single male with the rest being female).

I'd go with either of these:

Red Zebra (if you're not keeping labs)
Yellow labs if not keeping red zebra)
Albino ret tops "greshakei" (though I'd only keep one zebra species, in my experience they'll show extra aggression to each other, irregardless of color differences)
Rusty (will pretty much go with anything)
Aurora (can be kinda aggressive)
Salousi (just avoid similar colored mbuna as the saulosi male, ie blue with dark bars)

With peacocks you generally keep either a single specie setup (to avoid interbreeding), because the females are very similar looking and as soon as they're in your tank you won't know which is which, OR an all male tank, all male peacocks, just avoid similar looking ones to minimize the aggression.

Just curious what are the "various dwarfs" that you've mentioned?