Monty-2010
Fishaholic
Hi All,
I've been keeping cichlids for a few years now but mainly of the SA/CA persuasion. I've currently got 3 tanks a rio 400; stocked with ellioti's, severums, rainbow cichlids, clown loaches, a range of barbs and some gouramis, a common plec and a rusty plec, i've got a synodontis somewhere in there too (hardly ever see him)
vision 180; stocked with cardinals, harlequins, discus, gold nugget plec and a bristlenose plec
and a small 2ft used for rearing fry.
When i started keeping fish again a few years ao i wanted to go down the old world cichlid rout but was put off a little by the agression fearing about some of the community stock i had so i bought some ellioti's and then some rainbows and ended up with a load of severums the rest is history.
i bought some discus thinking they'd give me the satisfaction i was looking for but they are so boring and feel like they are more hastle than they are worth...
Anyway that's a bit of background... the purpose of this ramble is i've seen a few tanks recently with mbuna in and this ich of mine has realy got bad again... so not sure what to do, do i get rid of the discus and go for it? or do i get rid of a lot of my stocking from the 400 and move some that i want to keep to the 180 and fill the 400 with malawi's? Any suggestions ideas will be more that welcome...
P.s. if feel free to tell me if i'm not making any sense...
I've been keeping cichlids for a few years now but mainly of the SA/CA persuasion. I've currently got 3 tanks a rio 400; stocked with ellioti's, severums, rainbow cichlids, clown loaches, a range of barbs and some gouramis, a common plec and a rusty plec, i've got a synodontis somewhere in there too (hardly ever see him)
vision 180; stocked with cardinals, harlequins, discus, gold nugget plec and a bristlenose plec
and a small 2ft used for rearing fry.
When i started keeping fish again a few years ao i wanted to go down the old world cichlid rout but was put off a little by the agression fearing about some of the community stock i had so i bought some ellioti's and then some rainbows and ended up with a load of severums the rest is history.
i bought some discus thinking they'd give me the satisfaction i was looking for but they are so boring and feel like they are more hastle than they are worth...
Anyway that's a bit of background... the purpose of this ramble is i've seen a few tanks recently with mbuna in and this ich of mine has realy got bad again... so not sure what to do, do i get rid of the discus and go for it? or do i get rid of a lot of my stocking from the 400 and move some that i want to keep to the 180 and fill the 400 with malawi's? Any suggestions ideas will be more that welcome...
P.s. if feel free to tell me if i'm not making any sense...
Love em and wished had gone there earlier. Dang buggers are full of life and personality. Had tons of advise on here from a couple others that took away alot of the frustration of who eats who, and who goes well with who. Did alot of research on that subject, makin lists and so on. 
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