-Rob-

The tank looks great, I love the holey rock.

The ID looks like a borleyi female.

I reckon the stocking number is fine at the moment - comes down to how much maintenance you are happy doing on it. e.g. when the strigatus, red empress, venustus, borleyi etc get big in a year or so, it may seem crowded then but fine when they are that size now. I keep large haps aswell and find that the bigger the fish, the more maintenance required and the more waste they produce, so when the fish get bigger I thin out the stocking a bit.

Riggers ID's on fish 1, 2 & 5 are correct, but I think fish 3 is the aceii and fish is a fish 4 is a copadichromis borleyi red fin kadango. 

Hi, I have similar stocking idea for my 10 foot, I wanted the females to look colourful aswell. So I have ended up mainly stocking it with white lip mdoka and exochochromis anagenys. Both are quite peaceful species and the females look just as good as the males.

Great fish you had there, I particularly like the torpedo blue, probably the best of the torpedos. The other nice one being mylochromis ensatus which was more recently discovered, looks similar to the blue and grows larger. I think that one is available in the hobby now aswell.

Yes, the torpedos are not very assertive in the aquarium. Would have been a great tank you had with the torpedo blues and Taeniochromis, they are an awesome species aswell.