As I sat in the lobby of a local hospital today, I was fascinated by a chiclid tank they had on display there. It was quite a large tank, 70-100g is my guess, with lots of rocks, a few fake plants, normal natural gravel substrate and a variety of different colored fish, some very large ... all in all nice looking.
What struck me though is the amount of fish that were crammed in there. I've counted around 20+ varying in size from about 2 inches (only a few) to mostly 4-8 inches. I'm not into chiclids, I'm only guessing they were mostly Mbuna. The majority looked like "bumblebees" (black/yellow striped), a few larger ones were almost all black, a couple white ones, one yellow, some pale grey-blue w/yellow fins, a black-white marble looking pair, and one royal blue/black oddball (he looked a tad different from the rest, smaller but with a wider mouth, not quite the same body shape). Some of the larger ones were quite agressive, chasing the smaller versions into the rocks to hide. Fun to watch, but ... it just seemed overstocked. Or is it? Like I said, I'm just curious ...
