Hello from Belfast

I've just got back into fish keeping after about a year off.I previously kept a 120 liter community tank and I've kept some cold water too. I've just set up a 190 liter trigon,I've removed the standard filter and I'm running an ehiem 2215 classic.The tank's 25kg of coral sand in it and some ocean rock in there too and gonna be keeping Malawi cichlids.
I know this is a fish forum but if there's anyone here into reptiles,I also keep and breed them too,check out my website.

www.boa-constrictor.co.uk

SCI wrote:

I've just got back into fish keeping after about a year off.I previously kept a 120 liter community tank and I've kept some cold water too. I've just set up a 190 liter trigon,I've removed the standard filter and I'm running an ehiem 2215 classic.The tank's 25kg of coral sand in it and some ocean rock in there too and gonna be keeping Malawi cichlids.
I know this is a fish forum but if there's anyone here into reptiles,I also keep and breed them too,check out my website.

www.boa-constrictor.co.uk

Hi SCI nice site.
I was going to get sum Malawi cichlids myself for my 180 litre but i was told it was too small. generaly they are better in 300 plus.
Have you any pictures of your tank?

Hello,
Welcome to the site.Specially as another cichlid keeper.Keeping Tanganjikans and Malawis.Regards,Tim
P.s.For you and Daryn.!180liters is not to small-it depends on the breeds and you can rare larger breeds in it and grade up later on:P !Regards,Tim

Hi SCI
And welcome to the forum!


i am just checking in to see what was happening in between water change and reading an article on the green tree pythons and the super striped pastel morph ball python a snip at £11,995.

i have no reptiles at moment but hopping to get something set up soon. beardy to start with:woohoo:

Mickey

Welcome to the forum SCI, get some pics up of those chilids! Im more into dwarf chilids myself but may be converted at some stage!!! A nice rocky tank with lots of fish vooming in and out is sure to get a green light from herself!(wishful thinking perhaps!).
Gavin

daryn wrote:

SCI wrote:

I've just got back into fish keeping after about a year off.I previously kept a 120 liter community tank and I've kept some cold water too. I've just set up a 190 liter trigon,I've removed the standard filter and I'm running an ehiem 2215 classic.The tank's 25kg of coral sand in it and some ocean rock in there too and gonna be keeping Malawi cichlids.
I know this is a fish forum but if there's anyone here into reptiles,I also keep and breed them too,check out my website.

www.boa-constrictor.co.uk

Hi SCI nice site.
I was going to get sum Malawi cichlids myself for my 180 litre but i was told it was too small. generaly they are better in 300 plus.
Have you any pictures of your tank?

I'd agree with Tim,I'd a friend had yellow labs for example breeding in a 3ft 120 liter tank.

Thanks for all the kind words lads,do any of you's have some Malawi
fry for sale by any chance?

Welcome along SCI. Good to see more & more cichlid keepers on the site !

I have the following fry in various sizes:

- Labidochromis Careleous
- Labeotropheus Trewavasae Mpanga
- Pseudotropheus Flavus
- Pseudotropheus Acei (white tailed black)

The Acei are still tiny but I've a good range of sizes in the others.

I was checking out your website, I've never seen so many snakes in one place.
My wife would have a heart attack if she thought places like that even existed

The trigon 190 is not an ideal cichlid tank as it doesn't have a big footprint. The volume is mainly in the depth.
I had one myself & it was Ok but the fish do better in a standard rectangular tank.

If you keep it to mbuna only - no peacocks or haps you will be grand.
What colours/species do you have in mind?

Welcome SCI, interesting site of snakes you have, though they are not my cup of tea, just as well as I don't have enough room for aquariums never mind terrariums. Hope you enjoy your stay.

Daragh

At the moment I have in the tank-
sub/adult pair Aulonocara spp. Peacock Dragons blood
2 x Labidochromis caeruleus yellow lab 1"
6 x Metriaclima callainos Cobalt blue Zebra 1"
3 x Cyrtocara moorii 1.5"

This is all that going in for now until till the cycle has started,I'm getting a sm ammonia read after them being in for 4 days now. My intention is to get another female Aulonocara maybe a an albino and yes a few more mbuna and maybe 3-4 Synodontis multipunctatus once things are going well. Where are you based mate any idea on prices,pm is if you want bud.

SCI wrote:

At the moment I have in the tank-
sub/adult pair Aulonocara spp. Peacock Dragons blood
2 x Labidochromis caeruleus yellow lab 1"
6 x Metriaclima callainos Cobalt blue Zebra 1"
3 x Cyrtocara moorii 1.5"

This is all that going in for now until till the cycle has started,I'm getting a sm ammonia read after them being in for 4 days now. My intention is to get another female Aulonocara maybe a an albino and yes a few more mbuna and maybe 3-4 Synodontis multipunctatus once things are going well. Where are you based mate any idea on prices,pm is if you want bud.

You put 13 fish into an uncycled tank??
I'm afraid you will be lucky not to lose them all..

Look at the size of them,only 2 of them are a decent
size,in a 190 tank there hardly making a dent on the filter,after 5 days ammonia still isn't over 1.0 mg/l!! They'll be fine and if things start to go crazy,which I would doubt I have a large pc of poly-filter here that would sort things out pretty quickly. I have filter media in there from a mature tank which should speed things.I know how to cycle a tank and every thing I've done has been done with advise by people that collectively have 50 years fish keeping experience and 1 of them owns one N. Ireland's oldest and most respected aquatic shops.

Fancy a bet they all do great?

If you have mature filter media in there then it should in theory bypass the cycle which is grand.
That's how I set up new tanks myself, no cycling involved.

I don't usually get any trace of Ammonia though - 1mg/l Ammonia is enough to seriously stress your fish out even if they aren't showing it yet so I'd keep an eye on that.

Anyhow, youre obviously prepared if things go wrong so fair play & best of luck with it.

Re: Fish I have for sale, let me know what species, size & how many you're looking for & we'll sort something out. I'm not breeding them to make money so prices won't be high.

What would you recommend,cichlids are all new to me bud?

Personally…

I'd ditch the Peacocks.
Female peacocks are very drab & if you get any more male peacocks they will hybridise

The moorii will get too big eventually but they're real slow growers so if you like them then they're worth growing on with a view to upscaling the tank.

I'd stick with mbuna rather than go for any other haps. Lots of great mbuna to choose from.

You have lots of blue and yellow with the caeruleus & cobalts/moorii.

Blue & Yellow works great, so maybe some more yellow with a few more caeruleus & then to break up the colour a bit some Pseudotropheus neon spot and/or Pseudotropheus demasoni.

Demasoni have a reputation for aggression so need to be kept in good numbers but definitely worth checking out.

What fish have you kept in the past?

So you have at the moment.
Labidochromis Careleous
- Labeotropheus Trewavasae Mpanga
- Pseudotropheus Flavus
- Pseudotropheus Acei (white tailed black)
-Pseudotropheus neon spot
-Pseudotropheus demasoni ??
Are these all fry or grown on?
Forgot to so if you fancy some cobalts I can bring soem down for you,there's a local lad here who would likely trade.

I've kept various community fish before bud,lots of different tetras,loaches,plecos,corys,live bears and other cold water too.

Hay Si,

Long time no see mate, hope all is well.

Simon

Simon_Jeggo wrote:

Hay Si,

Long time no see mate, hope all is well.

Simon

Not bad at all buddy,how's it going with you down there?