brand new african cichlids update,, lake Malawi,90 gallon fish tank

[bman0341]

Nice looking tank man. One suggestion - more rocks and places to hide. That will cut down on aggression when they get bigger.

[TKP316]

They'll be much happier in the 90 gallon, nice setup!

[whothq18]

thank you

[TheFish8431]

fish look great and so does the setup i would add some live plants and i would not add anymore fish they will get much bigger and you will run out of room fast but that's just me :)

[whothq18]

they wont eat live plants??? i know ever one says i should get 45 of them there crazy. i have 19 rite now.plain on getting six more. so i can pick out ones that may be to mean also in case some die. i have only lost two. would have had 21 rite now

[TheFish8431]

some times mine eat them but they don't rip them up like jacks or oscars i have a few in my tank and they do fine.,, yea just keep a good eye on the fish so they don't get sick i had a huge prob with mine when i had 10 and that was a 55gl there is just a huge amount of waste and i see you have gravel you may what to think about going to sand its much easy to keep clean.

[whothq18]

how do you clean sand? that sounds like a lot of work to switch out the rocks for sand. how do you put it in there when theirs water in the tank?

[TheFish8431]

its a lot easier to clean you just skim the waste off the top with out picking up the sand.i just pulled out all the fish and big rocks then take out the gravel,leave the water in the tank then take the sand put it in a bowl and give it a rinse then slowly put the bowl in the tank take it down to the bottom and slowly dump it out but you have to make sure you turn off your filter or the sand will kill it let the sand settle then turn it back on and put all your stuff back i the tank.

[whothq18]

i red that you also have to turn the sand ever few mouths. i think about it

[TheFish8431]

yea you do to get any trapped gas out

[whothq18]

hey i left a comment on one of your vids . i asked is it ok to mix Corey cat fish with these cuz seen you have.

[TheFish8431]

yea i left you a comment there

[whothq18]

i did not get it. so?

[TheFish8431]

oh ok lol yea my other fish do not bug my 2 cat fish at all there fins are fine i don't even see them chase them unless there in there cave and they just chase them out.

[whothq18]

cool i have two in a 29 gallon. i think i'll just put them in my 90 gallon and call it a tank.

[TheFish8431]

yea sounds like a plan now when my cat fish were small they did try and eat them i put them in one of my other tanks tell they got bigger then moved them back and they were fine.

[whothq18]

MINE ARE THE SAME SIZE AS MY FISH

[TheFish8431]

hmm i am really not sure what they will do all you can do is try it and see what they will do you can always take them out if they go after them ... they should chase them at 1st cuz there new.

[whothq18]

i bit scared to do it. i turn off lights when new fish and some times move stuff around  .