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Don't worry about it im happy to help :D. Yeah they will be fine as long as hes not small to the point of where the larger fish could eat him, if he is that small then there could be a few issues. Have you thought about how many you want to add??

I think it looks ok as it is :) The fish will prefer to sift and dig threw the sand more than the gravel but if your like it that way then thats good. You have made a good amount of caves for them to hide in and take territories/breeding spots. Do you like it?? If not maybe try rocks either end...

Thanks guys :), your sure dfield? A nice 180L can house some Beautiful Dwarf mbuna.

Yeah You have SSA, there is neil and mike to, a lot of people with decent fish, just having to tavel a lot. Where you get these guys from?

Here's just a few of my mbuna in their breeding color's and my new set-up waiting to be stocked:

He is, just outside Cambridge at the moment but live originally just past leeds and you?

Nice fish certainly a big fella.

Dont worry about it,The sand should be fine, in the worse case scenario you could do a 25% water change but i dont think you will have to do that as the filter will do the job and clean it for you :good:. At least this happened with no fish in the tank :P

Hows the tank going Lurch (seems the last thing people are worried about on this thread :P )

Nice tank, would luck much better with more plant's

If its that fish, I think its a Pink jewel cichlid. Ideally they shouldn't be kept with Malawi's ad they originate from the West African rivers. Although a lot of people do keep them with mbuna.

No worries just try and choose the best quality for your money. Some of them are pretty nice fish so your tank will look nice :good:

No worries :good:

For a Mixed tank that is actually not that bad ( i have seen a lot lot worse ) Right try and figure some of these out see if you like these for a nicely stocked tank. The fish with green rings round them could be Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos 'maingano' or melanochromis johanni as both of these...

Yeah the pic is fine, im just not as knowledgeable with Tropheus :fun:

Tropheus Red Moliro Firecracker I think :crazy:

Yep sound perfect to me, just as long as the species aren't to aggressive or the larger species of lake malawi but if you get pics then that will be good to see what they are. :good:

If you want to add more all at once then you could do it, just wouldn't fully stock straight away, You could add more than 6 if you wanted to maybe add groups of 12 each time. So If you added the fish say on the 25th/26th monitor for a week then add another group that will be fine, Just remember...

Hopefully it shouldn't take to long to cycle then :) I wouldn't add all at once but i would categories it into say 3 to 4 groups, so add 1 group of 6+ fish then another and then another etc.. Until your tank is fully stocked :) Yes your right all your fish would start of fresh in the tank with...

The male is a beaut, great vid :hyper:

Did they all have a fuzzy/cotton wool like fungus round there mouth/head??

How long has the tank been running for?

Just do jobs for her round the house maybe, try a little sweet talking and give her the puppy dog eyes lol, then ask the question. If your mom keeps fish to, then offer her to help you out and make her feel involved. Other than that i dont know :hyper:

Give it time mate, you haven't had them long so they will take a few month's to get them settled and use to their new home. My Temp's are betweein 26'c to 28'c and when i do water changes the temp drops to 23 to 25'c and they absolutely love it, sends them in a breeding frenzy lol

Some parts of the lake is really vigorous, with waves smashing against the rocks and the fish love it but im guessing with the haps/peacock's been in the more open parts of the lake they wont have to much water flow. They don't appear lethargic do they?? The current shouldn't really affect them...

Good to see its well on its way :)

Sorry to Hear that Jourdan :rip:

Could try java fern or vallis, mine destroyed vallis but you could give them a try :good:

Yep there fine :)

Malawi's love the slightly cooler temp mate, always get's mine breeding everytime without fail, So honestly don't worry about that. I remove most of my fish if i do a rescape, malawi's are pretty fast and know to get out of the way.

She's licking them lips waiting for that Jewel lol. Pretty cat

For a 30G id recommend a nice Tang set-up (Tanganyikan cichlid's) maybe a few shellies (Lamprologus species) with a good amount of shell's scattered along the bottom of your tank. Then maybe some julie's (Julidochromis species) then a more open water species to fill out the top half in your...

Java fern is probably the only thing that's quite durable and could work well with malawi's (guessing you have malawi's?) I had a huge vallis that grew amazing in my old planted tank withing a week 30 mbuna stripped it to nothing when i added it to their tank. :rolleyes:

Ahh hopefully you will still win them then :hyper:.. I know what you mean, she will probably attack the cat lol (she sounds that aggressive) that's the frustrating thing with malawi's they can suddenly have a rant with one another and one always ends up worse of. Melafix should do its job pretty...

That is crazy, never knew they had so much aggression. She should be tamed a little with the mbuna as tank mates hopefully. :good:.. When do your pseudo saulosi arrive?

So the jewel did this to your Vieja? Wow i didn't know they were so aggressive.

Looks class, very natural looking. :good:

looking good james, some big haps/peacocks there, they look nice. :good:

No worries :). Some places online i think are ok just have to find out which ones are good and which onces are not so good.

Depend's, they will always chase something new in the tank but if your added a few at a time that's a good thing, spread's out the aggression. If their juvi's they might not be harassed to much :) Don't forget pics :hyper: