New tank!

[bmarine]

Just got an excellent deal on a 125 gallon today! Full setup with an Fx-5 for the canister filter for $300!! I have some cleaning to do but really excited!

[djlamonica]

Sounds awsome whats your stocking plans?

[bmarine]

Definitely haps and maybe a few peacocks. For sure Red Empresses

[hollywod12]

where u find that at??

[bmarine]

In Holland, MI! Everything was really dirty, but the tank holds water and the Fx-5 works, so i'm pretty satisfied at this point!

[Steve]

Awesome nothing wrong with a BIG tank. I'm working on a 7ft HAP & Peacock tank myself. Any special plans you have for yours?

[bmarine]

Sweet! I was looking at a 7 foot one recently, but the tank and stand were all one piece, so it was 400 pounds ans just too hard to move. I've come up with a tentative stock list, but we'll see if i change it!

3 Red Empress
5 copadichromis trevawasae
5 otopharynx lithobates
5 aulonocara stuartgranti usisya


Sound good? Could i put more, have less?

[Sean]

Where do you plan on getting the copadichromis from? I've been searching for a while

[bmarine]

My LFS can usually get fish in for me, but if not, i'll try online!

[lilscoots]

I've got copadichromis trewavasae, and I live about 15 minutes from you if not less.  All I have are fry right now i believe...

[bmarine]

Hmm, well i might send you a  pm in a month or so! So i posted my stock list, but i'm not sure i like it...anyone have a good stock list for haps and peacocks? I kind of hope to get small groups of each kind and see if i can breed them. Can haps from different genera interbreed?

[Loon36cf]

Yes they most definitely can I have a couple all male tanks the trick is to make sure that they don't look alike from what I have found I would say out of one tank I have all but 3 that have colored up mainly because they are big enough yet I just wait and see. There will be some that won't color up because they aren't dominant so I would pick a few that you want and a few others that you would not care to much if they colored fully if you want a show tank. But putting 3 or 4 species together with female they will breed depending on who the dominate male is

[djlamonica]

If attempting to breed I'd highly recommend species only tanks just makes things way easier.  That being said I did breed mbuna in a community tank and raised and sold fry.  I only pulled females that I watched spawn with same species males.  This was easier for me as the tank was in the living room.  If a female was holding and I didn't see herspawn iI just let here spit in the tank and fry get gobbled up. 

Here is a cool idea though not sure how handy you are and if this will be a show tank or fish room tank.  But if you wanted to breed you could divide the tank with some kind of 3d natural looking dividers and put different breeding groups in in one.  That way you'd get the look with multiple colored males but your females wouldn't get mixed up.  Would be challenging but I think could work. 

[Sean]

I like djlamonica's idea, but not sure how you'd do it. Maybe Steve would have an idea. He's really good with that stuff

[Loon36cf]

That is a prett cool idea but you would have to be careful the species you choose don't get to big because if you cut it into 3 parts you only have about 40 some gallons per say breeding trio