what species tank to do??

Okay guys im busy selling the fish in my tank to start a species tank.

Would like to know what peoples ideas are for a species tank.
The tank is 1.5x65x75.

My ideas so far:
*frontosa colony
*tropheus duboisi colony
*blue acara group

all ideas and suggestions will be appreciated, except for discus and fish under 10cm.

 

I think a Tropheus colony would be quite nice. Good luck finding Blue Acaras, but they would be cool as well. I think Frontosas are overdone at the moment, so something that's a little less "common" would be ideal.

 

Blue acara have started showing up in lfs recently. Sams had 12 this week.

@Sean J the tropheus I would want to do I dont know where to get and how much they cost. The tropheus kaizer ikola (the yellow ones)also scared about them dying off,heard many horror storiea

 

You should look for Calvus... Now Those would make a frikken sweet species tank!

 

Tropheus are cool they are best kept in a species tank as there diets are specific, many go wrong with the species when they are introduced into community tanks as high protein foods do not agree with them. @Sean J i completely agree with the Calvus they do make a awesome species tank if you can get enough of them as they are pricey and not as common, i currently have two types calvus, working on getting my third and adding two types of compressiceps which look very similar to Calvus

 

If we talking Tanganyikan then I would say you can consider furcifer and ventrale species tank. If you ask around maybe you will get some.

 

Calvus are amazing. I see the black and the yellow around often. But 199ea for juveniles is a bit out my budget

 

The furcifer look amazing never seen anything like that before! Problem is theyre probably next to impossible to get or very expensive? Or im sure somebody on tasa would be showing them off:laugh:

 

@Naathir . I would definately keep tropheus is a species only tank. Im looking to keep entirely 1 species. As a colony or decent size group...

 

This is what made me start doing research on the black ikola tropheus. ...

 

Absolutely Cyathopharynx Foai Karliani Copper!!!
Talk to Jack, start up your colony, I'll buy all your fry!

 

@lep2soma they look amazing. But males are the only colourful ones. Females are dull and silver. I could maybe only keep 4males amd 20 females....dont know if that would look good.

 

How much do tropheus go for if we get them from somebody here on tasa?

 

deboisi is found most in Cape Town if you whant.

 

dont like the deboisi that much hey... and i dont think the lfs has good quality, also theyre the same price as fronts.
id rather do fronts over deboisi

 

@Jack Stone

What are your prices on tropheus ikola?
And tropheus duboisi?

 

Howzit @nodac...

Duboisi: Cichlid-Forum.co.za - South African Cichlid Forum
Ikola: Cichlid-Forum.co.za - South African Cichlid Forum

Also have 5-7cm White Chaitika Calvus going for R210 - at that size they're probably more adult than juvenile.
Cyatopharynx Foai (3 variants), Opthalmotilapia Ventralis (Katoto) and many beautiful Frontosa variants available.

Payment cut-off is 26th of August 2013, landing early September 2013.

 

Jack stone. Thanks

 

okay so i have decided to go with frontosa! @Altum has been amazing with letting me annoy him with all my fish crazyness! im hoping i can get them by the end of August. its now a mad rush to get my tank setup and rid of all the other guys living in there!

going to start off with 20 frontosa! talking to altum today has just made me super excited like a little kid!! cannot wait. will spend my whole weekend off doing fishy things with my tank

 

So what variant frontosa are you getting.