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  • #16
    So it looks like I am going to be getting either a 120 gallon or a 150 gallon tank. either way should be plenty of room right?
    130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
    125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
    100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
    55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
    55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
    30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
    30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
    10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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    • #17
      I would say yes.
      210G Malawi haps, peacocks, and clown loaches
      135G buccochromis rhoadesii & 135G Malawi haps & peacocks
      125G aristochromis christi & 125G Malawi hap & old clown loaches
      90G star sapphire
      75G buccochromis rhoadesii
      55G ?
      30G aulonacara Midnight & 30G eclectochromis fry

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      • #18
        Depends on how many you want

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        • #19
          Like i said previously I was thinking 9 total fish the T-reef 1m 2 female the Saulois 1male 2 female and the Metriaclima esthera 1 male two female
          130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
          125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
          100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
          55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
          55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
          30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
          30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
          10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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          • #20
            oh and it is official I will have a 130 gallon tank waiting for pick up when I get back next Thursday.
            130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
            125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
            100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
            55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
            55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
            30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
            30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
            10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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            • #21
              Does anyone here know the best place to get bulk aragonite. I am obviously going to need quite a bit for my 130.
              130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
              125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
              100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
              55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
              55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
              30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
              30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
              10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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              • #22
                Starting a Malawi tank build

                You can get the CaribeSea aragonite sand for $30-40 per 40lbs bag at most retailers, but if I were to do it again I would go with the live sand that Caribsea makes called Eco Complete. It's higher quality(IMO) and is so much cleaner. The cheaper aragonite take forever to get clean

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                • #23
                  Ok so i got back thursday night and friday was a crazy day picking up the tank. I had arranged to go and pick up a 130 from a guy off craigslist included stand, tank, lights, magnum 350 canister filter. The lights turned out to be 2 power compact 36" cora life but the stand was wood and had been in a house with no A/C for 6 months and needless to say it was pretty much junk that has to be completely re done on the bracing side. I was very sad. BUT got everything for 185 instead of 250 I say a pretty good deal. We then went to city pets picked up the aragonite and got the tank drilled and picked up the hardware priced a cheap stand and it was 300 no thanks fish land quoted 250. We then went to fish ranch and looked around they have really shrunk since the last time I was there been a while but the guy had an oceanic stand solid top solid bottom furniture grade stand for 150 so I got that. 8150829084_d74d4f42a9_m.jpg
                  130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
                  125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
                  100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
                  55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
                  55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
                  30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
                  30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
                  10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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                  • #24
                    Looks good!!!

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                    • #25
                      Looks good

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                      • #26
                        Good looking set-up gonna be sweet did you ever find the fish you were looking for?
                        125g: Empty For Now
                        90g: Planted S.A.



                        “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
                        Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by LordBarron7692 View Post
                          Good looking set-up gonna be sweet did you ever find the fish you were looking for?
                          Not really going to ultimate fish and aquarium world later today. If all else fails I'll have to order some offline. Checked out a few lfs but it seems they just like to have assorted Cichlids.
                          130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
                          125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
                          100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
                          55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
                          55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
                          30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
                          30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
                          10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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                          • #28
                            Yeah i hear you I've been.looking for some of the saulois myself but cant find any
                            125g: Empty For Now
                            90g: Planted S.A.



                            “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
                            Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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                            • #29
                              Well I will let you know if I see any while I am out today. The blue male red zebra will be the most difficult one to find.
                              130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
                              125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
                              100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
                              55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
                              55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
                              30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
                              30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
                              10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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                              • #30
                                Current stock list Taiwan reef, pseudotropheus deep, Rusties. So far so good the rusties and the deep's are schooling together all through out the tank and the Taiwan reef fish are keeping to themselves. 20121104_201335.jpg
                                130 gallon lake malawi breeding community tank red zebra with true blue male, Mosobo "deep", Rusties, Taiwan reef.
                                125 gallon with Carl the crappie and Mrs. C the crawdad
                                100 gallon tall Walstad method planted tank
                                55 gallon tropical mixture of guppies, platy's, clown loaches
                                55 gallon pea puffer planted tank
                                30 gallon Cichlid fry tank
                                30 gallon planted snowball shrimp tank.
                                10 gallon Killi fish australe orange planted tank trying to breed

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