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[geemaril]

what would you put in a freshwater 6x2x2 tank with an eheim 2260?

[mtchye]

If it was me, i would do one of 3 things.

1) A planted discus/altum angel tank. The tank is high and wide, would be ideal for a nicely planted south american biotope with dwarf apistogrammas, rams, corydoras cats, etc.. Pros - very beautiful, cons - may need more maintenance trimming the plants, a bit more effort with CO2 and fertilisation, and good lighting..

2) A tanganyikan biotope - set it up with different territories eg shell bed, sandy bottom, rocky caves, open water etc.. Fill with appropriate species for each niche and let breed naturally.. Pros - very interesting behaviour, fry will survive quite well usually, Cons- can't really think of any, malawis may be bigger and more colourful in general, but the behaviour makes up for it..

3) A Malawi tank as above..

I've got 2 and 3 running nicely... and a 4x2x2 thats in the process of becoming a (1)..

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[wysiwyg]

ATM I would kill for more more space. Therefore I would use it to grow up my fry. I literally have 1000's and not enough room.... However, normally I would have to agree with mtchye - a biotope situation.
I'd prob. go tang. as these appeal to me most (behaviour wise). I've had all three (of the above ideas) in the past and if you were going to opt for a planted aquarium, you need to put in the effort to create and maintain it (IMO half done isn't enough).
A tank of nicely coloured male malawis would probably involve the least upkeep - depends entirely on your own taste and amount of time (and money) that you are prepared to spend.

wys

[BengaBoy]

of course you could also do the colony fish thing - just have a single species, but a big bag of them. Maybe Tropheus, or Leptosomas
or just have a single tankbuster fish.

depends on what you want to look at? action, character, colour... Some people dont like a tank that has too much action, others do.

Steve


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[me]

I would get 1 Single big fish that wants to eat cats

[7BARfrontosa]

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Edited by: 7BARfrontosa at: 12/15/03 1:55 pm

[geemaril]

already got a soon-to-be cat eater in my 4 foot lol
16" Barramundi

[yaldaraisamonkey]

Can you put Dimi Comps in a tank that size?
I read they get up to 9" - 12".
I would probly get something like that.

[geemaril]

i personally dont like the d comps and id rather a comunity tank. no offence
Elliot

[geemaril]

nice ideas
i wanted a forrest like area off to one side to hide any fry that i might have missed but im not too sure which plants would give this effect and serve to hide the babies from the calvus.any ideas
Elliot

[Mazimbwe]

Bio-tope...you will be most rewarded with this type of tank, if ti watching that you plan to do.

However, if you are going to go for a Tang bio-tope do not use plants.

And if ya wanna go with plants you will need to account for the depth(2ft) of the tank.

So much space...so many oppertunities...What about some F.rostratus sharing with C.moorii/P.annectens in the tank with tank with just substrate?? Would look fantastic, IME.

[Barca888]

Fill it with tiger oscars and feed them chopped up "me"s

[Lee Hodge]

I would put a large colony of cyprichromis sp in there... or maybe a colony of a cyprichromis sp and a colony of p.nigripinnis. Thats what i'd do

lee *wishing i had a spare 6fter*

[me]

Well in my tang 5 x 2 x 2 i have Caudo's, brichardi, marlieri, multifasciatus, and soon longoir and cylindricus all breeding in the same tank.

it is really cool seeing lil babies swimming around.

Of course most of the babies get eaten but thats just nature taking it's course because, a couple of babies always survive.

It really shows how the whole thing works!

[geemaril]

what would your approximate survival rate be on each species. is there always about the same number of fry surviving each time and do the surviving fry reach adulthood?

[me]

depends on the species.

The ones with the highest survival rate are of course the biggest and most aggresive, the brichardi. The marlieri had a couple survive because they r extremely good at hiding, but i removed them.
no caudo's have survived longer than 5 days, but they have a new batch every 2 weeks.
they have bred about 15 times now and not one has survived.
same goes for the multifasciatus.

[geemaril]

i have decided to go with a semi planted catfish tank including bristlenose, khuli loaches, pakistani loaches, a few clown loaches , whiptail cats and maybe a year or so down the track hopefully some peppermint bristlenose and a pair of zebra plecs.
Elliot

Edited by: geemaril at: 1/6/04 11:16 pm

[Mazimbwe]

You do know this is, called, a 'Cichlid' forum

There is a Catfish forum pub79.ezboard.com/bperthcichlidsociety...here.

[geemaril]

i thought id cover the fields by putting it in general discussion
Elliot