rosco Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hi all, I have almost finished my 4x2x2 (just the sump and pump to go) and am looking for inspiration for what to keep. I have a planted display (well it will be once if the plants stop dying ), a 6x2x2 with trophs in and now this. It was intended to be a tang display tank with cyps, shellies and others but I am not sure anymore. I have gold and black occies, N Multi's, N cylindricus, J transcriptus 'Gombe', 1 big male calvus and probably could get hold of sandsifters, kitumba fronties, cyps. I even wouldn't mind moving to the dark side and get some of the orange or red head geo's but I haven't kept them before. Any ideas or a nice stocking list of community tangs would nice I don't feel inspired as yet. cheers rosco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gianniz Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 callochromis seem to be most available sandshifters and they are very beautiful fish. The only problem is that you won't be able to keep more than 1 male In my tank I have 1 pleurospilus male and 4 females plus 1 male macrops and 1 juvi (unknown sex). pleurospilus male is stunning and even though its smaller than macrops male, it still the alpha callochromis. (though it looses to black occy everytime) I also have a ghost knifes and an elephant noses in the tank plus bunch of tetra and glass catfish plus spiny eel. From my experience the elephant nose is the king of the tank when it comes to feeding but it doesn't disturb any fish (my pleurospilus bred infront of his cave). I'm not saying its a good practice to mix fish like this but your an expert you can make anything possible. Also its going to be a display tank so you don't have to keep the water condition exactly like tang. Mines around ph8 and hard. Display tank should have some action (not aggression). So far I have lost 1 neon tetra in 5months (but that was 1 week after I put it in) and apart from small fry calvus I killed, not 1 fish died! Again everyone is different so Rosco whatever makes you smile, thats what you should get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbuna man Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 pair brichardi pair leleupi pair gombe and one of the shellies black/gold occies or your muti's. If the brichardi and leleupi caved at opp ends of the tank that would be a great tank with plenty of charactor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned0011 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Cyprichromis Leptosoma "Malasa" yellow tail is a great looking fish, I have 8 males in my Display tank "6x2.5x3H", they usually swim in the upper half of the tank which make the tank look nice and full, but that's just me Ned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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