75 Gallon - Mixed African Cichlid Aquarium

its been quite a while since my last video, and last night I finally got my new camera! I'm sorry that this video is so short, I really don't know how to use this new camera yet, but I just had to get something up to let all of you know that more vids will be coming once again! As you can see, almost EVERYTHING has changed since my last vid. I converted this tank into an african cichlid tank with mostly mbuna species and a few peacocks. However, you still see the firmilair faces of the blood parrot cichlid and my female firemouth cichlid...i know they shouldn't really be with the africans but i just couldnt let them go. Everyone in the house loves those two and they're probably the oldest fish in the tank, and so far they are having no problems with the africans!

The PH in the water is currently at 8.0 which is great for the africans, but not so high that the non-africans can't handle it. Everyone has adapted well and I havn't any disease or sick fish!

The filtration system is still the same as always, which is Two Marineland Emperor 400 Bio-wheels power filters. In totaly, they filter 800 gallons per hour, and i do weekly water changes and gravel vacs.

the stocking list is as follows:
AFRICAN MALAWI
-2 Aulonocara Peacock cichlids
-9 Yellow Labs (labidochromis caeruleus)
-3 Cobalt Blue Cichlids (metriaclima callianos)
-1 Melanochromis Interruptus
-1 Albino Socolofi Cichlid (pseudotropheus socolofi)
-1 Albino Zebra cichlid (metriaclima estherae)
-1 Yellow Tail Acei (pseudotropheus acei)

WEST AFRICAN
-1 Synodontis Eruptus
-1 Synodontis Ocellifer
-1 Jewel Cichlid (hemichromis bimaculatus)
-1 African Brown Knife Fish (technically shouldn't be mixed with malawi cichlids, but he's been getting along just fine ever since i began the change to africans.

SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN
-1 Blood Parrot Cichlid
-1 Firemouth Cichlid


*I'm planning on having the Yellow Lab Cichlids breed, which is why i have so many of them. the male to female ratio is 3 males & 6 females (although i'm not postive because some are still too small to tell for sure)

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• 75
• Gallon
• Malawi
• Mbuna
• Aulonocara
• Peacock
• cichlids
• Yellow
• Labs
• (labidochromis
• caeruleus)
• Cobalt
• Blue
• Cichlids
• (metriaclima
• callianos)
• Melanochromis
• Interruptus
• Albino
• Socolofi
• Cichlid
• (pseudotropheus
• socolofi)
• Zebra
• cichlid
• estherae)
• Tail
• Acei
• acei)
• Synodontis
• catfish
• Eruptus
• African
• Brown
• knife
• Jewel
• blood
• parrot
• firemouth
• convict

[yourmusicist]

litres?

[BingX14]

@yourmusicist 75 gallons = 284 Liters

[SirianKings]

Your parrot cichlid is like an elephant in the room. Get that ugly creature out of there!

[BingX14]

@SirianKings haha! well the parrot has since passed away..(i had been wanting to get rid of him for a while but he was a favorite of my family members so i got a load of crap from them everytime i wanted to remove it from the tank)

[ryan0449]

This is a great setup you got. I have a freshwater community tank but I'm vary fascinated with the African cichlids I was just wondering if you need to have a sandy bottom? And how much rock do you need?

[BingX14]

@ryan0449 thanks! yes africans are very interesting and very rewarding cichlids to keep! Africans do not need a sandy bottom, as i use natural black gravel as a substrate in my tank and i have a large amount of rocks because i wanted to create a "freshwater reef" kind of look. You don't need as many rocks and rock formations as i have, but trust me africans are very aggressive and the most rock piles you have, the more hiding places there will be and that is very helpful with african cichlids

[JeffRozak]

Beautiful setup. :-) What kind of lighting do you use? It's very bright & clean. I would love to see more videos of this tank, but allow me a suggestion: less is more with the camera movements. LOL

[MrRedsix1]

Your Tank looks just like mine with the fish lol

[mcs6327]

Awesome setup. Plz check my channel out. lots of aquarium info!

[Browns7575]

How do you introduce new fish into the tank with them being so aggersive and all.

[itzlou123]

very nice aquarium , have a 82 liter myself still need to convert it into cichlids ,do you think i should stick with the fluval fx5 for filtration or should i swap Thanks

[lhomme38]

@SirianKings it is actually beautiful

[MrLangam]

I have a question, what do you call the little pink cichlid?

I used to have one but that was years ago.

[valhalla507]

your rocks look amazing against that black substrate! Very Nice

[blackghostknife11]

this is mad as