Miss Wiggle
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went to see a tank one of my workmates wants rid of last night, were going to be just taking a few fish off her hands..... surprise surprise were taking the whole tank, equipment, fish etc etc couldn't have seen that one coming
Anyway our favourite option for it is to turn it into a malawi tank..... had a read of the v helpful post at the top, got a few more questions though, any help gratefully received!
The tanks aprox 120l, but 4 foot long...... so I think it's big enough, got an external Eheim filter with a built in heater (not sure what model, will do some research when I get it!).
So what I've gathered we need to do so far is, put loads of rocks in, build it up high so they use the top of the tank too, sand as a substrate (make sure the rocks go straight onto the glass then the sand so they don't dig them up and get squished). The filters already mature so once we've redistributed the current fish we'll get it decorated and some fish straight in.
The malawi's at my lfs are £28 ish each, and ranging in all different colours, patterns, sizes etc is that a reasonable prices or should we shop around.... any suggestions of places in yorkshire that's good for them would be good too. They're all just sold as 'assorted malawi's' so I've no idea what any of them are, any species to look out for as good/bad starter fish....... cos at the moment I'm just going for the ones I think are prettiest which probably isn't the best way to do it!!
As for stocking, so your meant to overstock slightly, any idea how many fish we should be aiming for in this tank, or how many fish inces? Also if your overstocking do you need to overfilter as well to make up for it?
Erm, thats all I can think of for now, any helpful hints would be good!
Thanks
Anyway our favourite option for it is to turn it into a malawi tank..... had a read of the v helpful post at the top, got a few more questions though, any help gratefully received!
The tanks aprox 120l, but 4 foot long...... so I think it's big enough, got an external Eheim filter with a built in heater (not sure what model, will do some research when I get it!).
So what I've gathered we need to do so far is, put loads of rocks in, build it up high so they use the top of the tank too, sand as a substrate (make sure the rocks go straight onto the glass then the sand so they don't dig them up and get squished). The filters already mature so once we've redistributed the current fish we'll get it decorated and some fish straight in.
The malawi's at my lfs are £28 ish each, and ranging in all different colours, patterns, sizes etc is that a reasonable prices or should we shop around.... any suggestions of places in yorkshire that's good for them would be good too. They're all just sold as 'assorted malawi's' so I've no idea what any of them are, any species to look out for as good/bad starter fish....... cos at the moment I'm just going for the ones I think are prettiest which probably isn't the best way to do it!!
As for stocking, so your meant to overstock slightly, any idea how many fish we should be aiming for in this tank, or how many fish inces? Also if your overstocking do you need to overfilter as well to make up for it?
Erm, thats all I can think of for now, any helpful hints would be good!
Thanks