Lake Malawi Species • FINALY Time To stock! will this all work?!

[jsmeesterr]

so im very close to being done building my stand for my 75 gal tank! so that means i ca start getting my stocking down and everything!
info:
*like i said it was a 75 gal, (4 foot in length)
*the filtratinon will be a eheim professionel 2224 filter, marineland biowheel power filter penguin 350, a filter that is for a 20 gallon and just for a littlemore water current- a 10 gallon filter. maybe a pwerhead to. im not sure if that is good enough filtration- is it?

STOCKING: this is not the official list, it is just a big list of fsih that i did somereaserch on and thought would be good for my tank. im not srue which fish would get along with which fish so that is what im hoping you guys cold help me with. so just pick the fish that woulndt work and the fish that would together in the 75!:)

oh and if the name i listed is wrong or something you can correct me, and also if its not the common name the stores use could you tell me that to.

Blue peacock male
red peacock male
yellow peacock male
albino peacock male
strawberry peacock male
mamela yellow jake peacock
OB peacock male
red shouder peacock male
sulfurhead peacock male
1-2 blue dolphin cichlids. (what male to female ratino with 2?) these have to be in the stocking.
yellow labs- currently i already have 1 female lab so how many should i get wand what sexs? would just the 1 female be fine?
red empress male
lethrinops sp. "red cap" (itungi)- 4.5" in length?
lethrinops "red cap" (matema)- 4.5" in length?
tramitichromis intermedius- 6.5 inches in length?
orange lelupi?
haplochromis sp flameback, would love to have thsis hap
maybe some acei cichlids?

so which will work and which wont? and also if you thnk i should subsitute a fish in for one!
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[brinkles]

I'd skip any female fish at all, and the leleupi.

[jsmeesterr]

If I take out the ones you said, do you think that it will be to many fish?

[brinkles]

I think it's a couple too many, but I've never kept all male haps and peacocks, so I'll let someone with more experience help.

Just the eheim and the penguin is probably enough, but I'd run a third filter in case I needed it for an instant spare tank. (you will, with the all male tank!)

[Anthraxx8500]

its an all male setup. u cant go into this thinking whatever you pick will work out fine, also much of your list is unknown fish.. or common names. id suggest picking ones that dont look similar and start with ideally 6+ fish. whenever you add a new one or two redo the tank deco and change it all around on em to help avoid aggression issues. also a 2nd tank setup to house rejected fish so your not wasting all that money (male peacocks dont come cheap all colored up) i hope this helps but try reading some of the articles on site here and reviewing others postings to help get yourself a better idea of what your after.

[jsmeesterr]

How many fish would you say would be althe perfect number? When there full size, how many won't make the tank look to full but not to empty?

[jsmeesterr]

And since I want the blue dolphins cichlids so bad, should I get 2 or 3? And male to female ratio should be?

[13razorbackfan]

How many fish would you say would be althe perfect number? When there full size, how many won't make the tank look to full but not to empty?

Honestly....once they grow....13 will make a 75g look plenty full. I would make triple sure you don't have any females in there or you will have WW3. I would try to either A. add them all at once if you bioload can handle it or B. add at least 5 at a time.

I would not add more than 13-15 MAX. The red empress will probably get too big as well. Also....you may have some issues with the man hybrid strains such as the strawberry, OB, jakes, etc...especially when pairing them with the more docile pure species.

[jsmeesterr]

i think that is a good idea. i wasnt sure if th red empress would get to big but now that you say tat i agree!
and as for the hybrids, i can go with out the ob and the jakes, but i think i want to try the strawberry peacock, if i can find one somewhere! theyre just really beautiful!

and i think im going to do the 5 fish at a time. even tho all the filters i mentioned are already on tanks and have been for months and i think it could handle it, it would be less of a risk in a ammonia spike!

i already have the male red shoulder peaock so i will add him, the blue dolphins and like 3 more male peacocks first. prolly the red yellow and albino.
i also forgot to mention that i have a full grown albino rainbowshark that i want to add to this tank and im wondering if i can!?

[jsmeesterr]

so far I've 100% decided on
1 yellow peacock
1 red peacock
1 blue peacock
1 albino peacock
1 red shoulder peacock
1-3 blue dolphins- how many should i get(preferably 2-3) and what gender ratio?
then im not sure what haps i should get? would the ones i listed be easy to find? is there any more common ones that most stores have?
and what about some acei cichlids? how many?

[james1983]

I would do away with the lethrinops, I was looking into them for awhile but everyone says they are more suited for a species tank or a tank with really calm fish.

[jsmeesterr]

would the other haps i listed work? and what about the blue dolphins and aceis?

[13razorbackfan]

would the other haps i listed work? and what about the blue dolphins and aceis?

Well....the dolphin moori's will eventually outgrow your tank and you probably don't want to add 3 or 4. I would try and get a male if you can. As for the acei's....you can add 1m/3 or 4 females. I have one in my 75g but still too small to tell if male or female but regardless gets along really well with my peacocks and haps. I have some haps that are going to outgrow my tank but I plan on upgrading before then so I will just move them over.

[jsmeesterr]

I don't think I will be upgrading at all in the future so what haps will be a good size for a permanent home of the 75 gal?

[DJRansome]

First I'd shop at a store (or online vendor) that had full scientific names for all your fish. Blue peacock doesn't cut it. There are probably a dozen blue peacocks.

Second, if the moorii is your must have fish and you want a harem, I'd just do them and a breeding group of yellow labs...nothing else. That's just me.

In my 75G I have 11 males, none mature at more than 6" except the borleyi. I feel that it is too crowded and I am moving them to a 72" tank over the summer.