A few of my african cichlids

[geckocrazy]

I just recently started keeping african cichlids. Started off as for my wife and has evolved into us. lol.

astatotilapia latifasciatus

2 melanochromis johanni (my favorite)

and some pseudotropheus

and the tank

There are a few other cichlids in there also. We also have a ten gallon with some cardinal tetras and other tropical fish for my daughter. I hope to try a 55 or bigger next.

 

[G&MGeckos]

Those are really cool. We have serveral africans also. I love them. I had some shell dwellers for a couple of years. For such a little fish they sure would bite the crap out of you! I had to seperate them from thier fry one time and ended up having serveral little red rings the size of a #2 pencil all over my arm! LOL

If you are really getting into them you should check out a friend of mine web site. We went to school together and he always had cool fish. Now he and his Dad breed and import Africans they have tons of very hard to get fish. Actually all of our fish came from them. Very cool to do bussiness with.

http://www.ohiexchange.com/armke/

 

[geckocrazy]

Wow! They really have a great looking facility and some very interesting fish. Thanks for the link.

 

[Nathan Hall]

Man, I bred shell dwellers for years. Had a lot of fun with those little guys. Yes, Glenn, they can definitely chomp! I had Lamps and Neolamps.

 

[geckocrazy]

If I could stop buying geckos I might be able to get a bigger tank. lol

 

[Nathan Hall]

Chris, if you need more holey rock, let me know.

 

[Nathan Hall]

I know what you mean!!!

 

[G&MGeckos]

Thats been my problem too! Haven't bought any fish or tanks in the last 2 years. Been just buying geckos! But I think I will try to get our 100 gal redone this next year. I guess it all depends on what geckos I see for sale LOL! We drove to Temple last night to meet Kelli from HISS. As we were waiting I told my wife "I can't believe I just drove 2 hours to meet Kelli and she not bringing geckos!" Mendie had got 2 female sugar gliders from her.

Nathan the ones we had were Neolamp. caudopunctatus “Red fin", and Lamp. stappersi (meleagris) "Pearly Ocellatus". Now all we have is a trio of Cyphotilapia frontosa Halembe they kind of take up the whole tank. There is a couple of catfish and an albino bristlenose pleco. I am thinking of redo it and getting something that stays smaller and more active.

 

[Leland]

tropical fish.

Before I started keeping geckos I was into fish A LOT!!! I had many species over the years that I kept, and then moved into only keeping chiclids...I had fish from Lake Tanganika (it's been so long I forget how to spell the names of the fish, and lakes), Malawii, and Victoria. I enjoyed the Tanganikans the best, they were more expensive, but bred well, and I really enjoyed them. My favorites were Neolamprologus brachardi, man they were cool. I got into geckos and I haven't looked back, although I do miss my fish. I will get into them one day in the future.

 

[geckocrazy]

I am now putting together a 55gallon malawi tank. She be up and going by Sunday. I can't wait to get them out of that 29 and add some more fish

 

[Dr Alan]

The African cichlids are beautiful and the morphological changes that take place over the lifetimes of some of them, as well as their breeding peculiarities are fascinating. I've always been a little leery of them though, because of the hard alkaline water requirements. My tap water is soft and acidic, so the South American/Amazon fish love it. Water changes are straight from the tap and I really don't ever need to do anything with the ph. What exactly are you all doing with your Africans to manage their water requirements, which in reality are not too very far removed from those of marine fish?

 

[G&MGeckos]

Here where I am the water is very hard. So I kind of have the oppisite of you as far as water from the tap. Not much needed for the Africans.

 

[geckocrazy]

I am using a cichlid bedding of crushed coral and shell and holey rock. They are doing great with that. I haven't decided yet but i may add sand to the coral also.

 

[geckocrazy]

Alright... I broke down and got a bigger tank. Going with a 55gallon. Will have pics soon as its done. I got some sweet holey rock coming!

 

[Gugazu]

Too early...

 

[Bruce - Jedi Master]

Very nice aquarium! Tropical fish are one of THE great hobbies. Cichlids are the best. I used to work at Don Conkel's cichlid farm and had quite a set-up myself, before I became too busy in my current profession.