300 10ft - restock plans..opinions wanted

[geoff_tropheus]

As some of you may know, I have sold my Kambwimba Red Rainbow.

At the moment, I plan to keep the Tri-Color Petros.

My original thought plan was to move all my Dubs, Rutunga, and Katoto in with them and then move the Annectens into the 180.

Then put the 115 up for sale.

What would you do?

[gotticgs]

why do you want to sell the 115 first of all?

and I would defiantly leave the Annectens the way they are!

[gotticgs]

oh never mind I see what your doing

what are you trying to achieve here

I would wait till spring I think we are going to see a lot more new fish

[Lawsman]

I would make it easy on you.

Let me have your 300 and let me do all the planning of re-stocking Problem solved!

[newb]

why do you think we will see "new" fish???

[jeebus]

Sounds like a good plan. Your tank line up is very well thought out and organized. I like it.

[Zulaab]

300G Petrochromis Orthognathus Tri-Color & Rutunga & Katoto & Annectens Kekes
300G Petrochromis Trewavasae and Tropheus Lunangwa
180G Tropheus Ikola
180G Tropheus Duboisi
150G Tropheus Mpimbwe Red Cheek
150G Tropheus Ujiji
.
300G Petrochromis Orthognathus Tri-Color & Tropheus Lunangwa & Annectens Kekes
300G Petrochromis Trewavasae and Rutunga & Katoto
180G Tropheus Ikola
180G Tropheus Duboisi
150G Tropheus Mpimbwe Red Cheek
150G Tropheus Ujiji
.
300G Petrochromis Orthognathus Tri-Color & Duboisi & Annectens Kekese
300G Petrochromis Trewavasae and Tropheus Lunangwa
180G Tropheus Ikola
180G Tropheus Rutunga & Katoto
150G Tropheus Mpimbwe Red Cheek
150G Tropheus Ujiji

Any thought on doing this ?
What I am doing is keeping the dubs in your 180 and moving colonies into the two 300's depending how it works out best between the non-Petro's

I know its a lot of work, but without a lot of work you are still looking at wanting to change something.

I figure moving the Annectens out into the 8 or 10ft it will allow them to grow the size they are used to getting.. or bigger :)

[TaTeR ToT]

how big do annectens normally get?

bigger then 5-6"tl?

[russ]

looks like you have it figured out!
are you planning on getting a large variant of petro?
longola would be a good choice for one of them 10 footers.

[newb]

definately keep the Annectan's by themselves...no need to take the chance on interferring with their breeding.

[peterp63]

definately keep the Annectan's by themselves...no need to take the chance on interferring with their breeding.

+100

[Zulaab]

He is asking for changes. The longer the tank the more area's for fish to setup territories and more of the chance of breeding occurring. One thing I would like to know if you really want to know is which fish does he want the max breeding occur from ?
Which ones go together and which does Geoff not care if he gets more than one or two fry from ? Like everyone can say is something alone and there is more of a chance.
My 180 looks empty with only 30 fish in the tank, but I am sure that breeding will start happening at a higher rate now that the Kiku are no longer there.

[peterp63]

The annectens are important to me, errr.... I mean Geoff. I think they should graduate to their own 180. They are doing awesome in the 115.... think about how they'll do in the 180 man.

Geoff, do what you've been planning forever now. BTW, what kinda filtration and flow have you decided on with the 10 footer? I know you were a bit limited there.

[geoff_tropheus]

the 10 ft has a 400 gallon rated wetdry with 2-mag 12's. I added to Maxjet Mods one in each corner.

I would really like to see how big I could get those Annectens.

[Gene D]

A tank full of Red Bulu Point Petros!!!