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11-12-2006, 02:54 PM
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CICHLID MAN'S Hardwater setup.
I'm setting up a new tank, it's a Birthday presest actually which will hopefully be delivered within a week.
I'm hoping to keep malawis, rainbows, mollies, platies, swordtails, gouramis, male bettas, figure eight puffer. And other hardwater fish. It sounds dodgy but trust me, the end result will look stunning. The tank, a 4 foot aqua-life should be due on friday, so I'll post pics as I go. If anyone has got anything they'd like to ad go 'head.
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers. |
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11-12-2006, 03:01 PM
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Malawi Predators?
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11-12-2006, 03:03 PM
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Cichlid_Man it sounds like its gonna be fun.
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11-12-2006, 03:10 PM
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 Mbunas. But only the colorful ones like yellow labs and deomansi sp.I'm planning on keeping up to 4 male bettas too. If anyone wants tips on how to do it just let me know.
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers. |
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11-12-2006, 03:32 PM
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Wait 4 Male Betta's how in the world are you doing that Cichlid_Man, and I would like to know.
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11-12-2006, 03:41 PM
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interesting choice of inhabitants
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11-12-2006, 04:26 PM
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Cichlidman, could you post a picture of the yellow and black mbuna with vertical stripes you had in your signature before?
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11-12-2006, 04:36 PM
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I think the 4 bettas would work, but they will each need their own territories, which may not be possible depending on how many other fish will be in there.
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11-20-2006, 04:19 PM
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I've finally set it up and here are some of the pics:
This is the cental rock pile. I may add more rocks later.  Various shells for the shell dwelling tanganynikans.  Cave areas for the cichlids  Airial view  Interesting angel  Heaters in the background  Close up of bubbles lol   Cardinal and harelquin tank which is currently home to platies/mollies/swordtails which will be moving in the new tank soon.  
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers. |
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12-28-2006, 02:58 PM
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Finally uploaded some images of what it looks like now:
         
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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers. |
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12-28-2006, 03:32 PM
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We'll see how long it lasts..................
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04-12-2007, 05:50 PM
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that is a really raw tank CM.. nice
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04-12-2007, 05:51 PM
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i just realized the last post was from a long time ago... opps
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04-18-2007, 07:55 PM
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Any updates on this tank...how did the Bettas work out?
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