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mwg

posted on 31st Oct 06 at 09:24

They are Metriaclima estherae. I think.


starkie

posted on 31st Oct 06 at 09:18

will look out the name of them as have a pair of them most you seem to get is zebras but in diff colours

cosmo my tank is 4 f x18x15


mwg

posted on 31st Oct 06 at 08:41

Starkie that yellow one in the middle looks the same type as mine! I am also after a blue one like is at the front of your picture next.

Click here to watch Mbuna-Red-Zebras

[Edited on 31-10-2006 by Matty G]


Cosmo

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:40

smack...what size tank are you looking at putting the sharks in as you can get some minature ones but they still need a fairly large tank.

starkie...what size tank is that?


starkie

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:38

thats some of my malawis and my (hopefully )breeding pair of angels


smack

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:36

i wanted to get a tank and some miniture sharks for it, but iv been looking at the pics of the sharks you can get and they just look like goldfish,
I wanted mini white shark replicas and ones that actully look like sharks?


starkie

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:33



mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:21

cool! yeah defo get pics!


starkie

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 21:19

will get pics of my tanks prob got 25 malawi in mine


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 20:17

what malawi have you got?


gavin18787

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 19:26

ive just got a rock structure in mine. Seems to do them well as they have been living with it for the last few years. However I have had 3 lake malawi for two years then all of a sudden one of them started attacking the others :o

I now only have the one :|


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 19:17

bogwood and plants dont go well with cichlids.

bogwood will lower the pH which I dont want and plants will get ripped up. They are destructive buggers :lol:


and-m

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 17:15

Some spindly bogwood and plants, a few moer rocks and youre sorted.


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 17:11

The hill behind my house has alot of limestone outcrops and there is also a bit thats been quarried but then left in a big pile for years. So went up there with a rucksack and borrowed them :look:


ssj_kakarot

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 17:08

cool i bought a tank on friday nothing in yet just the water and gravel, i think those rocks look really good were did you get them from ?


Robin

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 15:26

Call one David, and on Madonna. even if they are both female :look:


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 14:48

Yeah it will look alot better with more rock in there. Going to leave the left hand side of the tank as it is and carry on building on top and off to the right till it meets with the filter then round the filter a bit but not all the way up. Can only get so much rock at a time as I can only carry a certain amount :lol:

They seem very happy so far. The orange one likes digging under the rock at the front left of the tank. Its ok though cos the rock isn't actually supported by the glass at that point anyway as there is little cut out in the rock so it forms a cave for it :)


Cosmo

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 14:13

tank will look :cool::cool: when you get the rest of the fish and decoration in :thumbs:


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 14:08

BTTT for any fish people that might be online :look:


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 10:23

Going to try and build up some more rock around the filter housing to hide it abit and also give them more places to hide.


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 10:23

Just more malawi's like I have but blue and might get a pair of Firemouth's and maybe a catfish or 2.

Its not that big a tank so I can probably only get another 3-4 fish at the most. Tank only looks big cos the fish are so small at the moment. They are probably only 1.5-2 inch long so just babies really


Ally

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 10:12

Awwww, wish i had room for a big tank.

What other fishies are u gunna get?


mwg

posted on 30th Oct 06 at 09:15

Only got 2 Red Zebra's for now. Will get a couple more in about 2 weeks. I will get another female (as thats what these are I think) and a male. Males are a nice blue colour.







They should grow about another 3 inches yet. They are very lively, like digging in the sand and wizzing around in and out of the rocks. Going to get some more rocks in there before I add anymore fish :)

Have to soak the cichlid sticks before I feed them then crush them up a bit as the fish are too small at the moment to eat them when they are solid :lol: