Help On Keeping Malawi's

[Jamie w]

hi i have a 110 litre tank with an internal filter and was wondering if this was ok to keep malawi's in if so what and how many could i keep the friendlier the better however i do like colour any suggestions

 

[doresy]

Shellies (shell dwellers) only really. (Tanganyikans)

Tank/filtration way too small for Malawi's

 

[Tauempire]

yeah Malawis need a cleaner water i use a large stingray filter which isnt the best however i also use my sump as my tank was originally marine and stuff it with poly wool and that gets it crystal but anything less and its brown water time

 

[Jamie w]

nice one cheers one more thing a mate of mine has given me a protien skimmer from his old marine set up could i use that to help things i'm new to this and any tips on keepin cichlids would be mint

 

[rifty]

a skimmer wont do much for cichlids

 

[elisew]

If you want to keep Malawi you really need to be looking at a minimum size of 200-240L plus fort he tank and a good filtration system i.e external filter or 2

The tank size you have now, as doresy says you could keep some Tangs but you wouldn`t be able to have many