Tanganyikan Tank - 55g

[TropicalNorth]

I recently finished converting my 4 footer from a planted community tank into a rocky tang tank. Getting all the old sand out was a real pain but it paid off in the end. Substrate is crushed limestone, rocks are dead coral and the current inahbitants are a pair of adult Bristlenose's, a Pictus Catfish and five Julidochromis transcriptus. I'm getting more cichlids soon and I'll post more pics when I do.

Before

After

Julies

 

[jm1212]

cool tangs

 

[Sorab]

Really nice rock layout, I am too attached to plants but I would love to keep tangs sometime. Such interesting and great looking little guys. Excellent clean pics.

 

[Coral Keeper]

Looks very nice!

 

[rich311k]

Nice looking tank!

 

[Mgamer20o0]

great job

 

[Lupin]

Nice Julidochromis.

 

[Rbishop]

Very sharp looking tank!

 

[Que]

Being a fresh water keeper I really liked the before pictures. That was a nice tank. Good luck with the new set-up.

Q

 

[TropicalNorth]

Thanks all.

Yeah I liked the tank before too, it was really hard to sell all the fish but I wanted to give african cichlids a go. Ideally I would have liked to have just bought another tank but 5 tanks is already too many (as my parents keep telling me ). Also it appears 2 of the Julies have formed a pair; plenty of displaying, quivering, mouth fighting and chasing going on. They're just so great to watch.

My Mum should be picking up 3 Black Calvus today so I'll post pics of them when they're settled.