Home Adverts Recent Added Auction Scam Alerts Fishkeeping Forum List Your Ad ShopAds Videos Tropical Fish Aquariums & Equip Marine Fish & Marine Inverts Cichlids Malawi Tanganyikan Cichlids Wanted Discus Goldfish, Koi & Ponds Retailers & Services ALL ADS By County    Home      Reply     Viewed: 201 -- Replies: 2 PM | All Topics | General | Cichlids | Marine | Coldwater | Tanks/Equipment | Diseases | Members Posted thinking of starting a malawi tank 27-02-2007 02:30 by mannings i have an empty rio 125 and iv never kept malawies. how many would i be able to keep in this size tank? and what malawies would best suit tis size tank? 27-02-2007 06:44 by Bogwoodbruce I've got a juwel tank that measures 40x16x12 and have got 17 in there. But they are aggressive nasty lttle cichlids. 27-02-2007 09:00 by PaddyD Its really a bit small for malawis - normally I would go for a longer tank 36" minimum, but as it has a good volume you should be ok if you are careful about species selection. The easiest way to keep them is to overcrowd them copared to normal fish - For a rio 125 I would recommend 12-15 fish as adults. So you will need beefier filteration - an external would be great. If you are careful with specvies selection and keep stocking levels high there is no reason they should be particularly aggressive to each other - but don't forget they are cichlids. I would stock with any of the following: Labidochromis caeruleus - Labidochromis sp. Hongi Labidochromis pearlmut Iodotropheus sperengae Melanochromis cyanorhabdotus (maingano) Melanochromis joanjohnsoni (experatus) Psuedotropheus lanisticola ------------------------------------------- I would avoid: Ps. Livingstoni (kenyi) - generaly peaceful, but large and can be a problem in small tanks Any other melanochromis - generally hyper aggressive in small tanks Crabro - Huge can be a menace in small tanks Ps. Esterae - red zebra - peaceful but large NEW REPLIES ARE NOW CLOSED ON THIS FORUM We invite you to join the NEW Aquarist Classifieds Fishkeeping Forum HERE Your contributions to this forum are greatly appreciated. This forum will be retained in archive status for reference. Previous | Fish Biz | Sitemap | Links | All Ads | Clubs | Webmaster | Our Sponsors | ShopAds Visits

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