New House-Reno-Tank

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That light looks real good..Tank looks great with the rock(needs more)
How are the fish getting along? That's a rough crowd...

[gregzz4]

Lookin good Kenny
I really like that light surround and how it looks on the tank from a standing perspective
I hated how my light glared in my face when sitting so I eventually build a pseudo canopy

You could add back the driftwood without any issues
I had piles of it in my 125g and no issues keeping it above 7.0
All you have to do is keep an eye on your pH and use alkaline buffer
Or better use SeaChem Cichlid Lake Salt
Even better still use SeaChem Malawi/Victoria Buffer
And if that doesn't take care of the driftwood issue, you could use SeaChem Tanganyika Buffer here and there. But watch it as this stuff is powerful and will raise you pH quite high (over 9.0 if you're not careful)

I recommend using the Malawi stuff, along with the Lake Salt, as it's blended for your fishies and will really help with attitude and color

[Nano]

Been a while. But a quick post. Couple new wild caught show males some new rock work, and thats about it. Going to be finishing the basement soon and then I'll be building a new larger cichlid tank. I have a few wild juviniles and a bunch of nice males growing out, so when I get to it I will have a good stock list. Anyway, a few that I have got wild caught recently. Anyone who has kept cichlids in the past can appreciate this list.

Aulonocara jacobfreibergi "otter point, lemon jake, eureka red"
Aulonocara maylandi & kandeensis
Lwanda sp.
Protomelas "mara rocks"
Aulonocara masoni
Those are just my wild caughts, then I have a bunch of F0-F1 choice males. Can't wait for them to all grow out. Here's a tank vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8v3...e_gdata_player

The fish in this vid are the only larger ones so far the rest are juvie males in the 55 in the basement growing out.

New tank plans are for a 150. Stoked.

Thats all happy holidays folks