Score!

[lilmissruffcountry]

Found a ad in Austin for a 75gal for sale for $75...so I jumped on it. Low and Behold...it was $75 for the tank, stand, lids, lights, power head, 3 heaters, crushed coral sub, and coral decors(dead..not live), canister filter rated for 150 gal tank, freshwater test kit(new still in plastic), nets, syphon, and a bunch of other odds and ends...ALL FOR $75! SCORE! Even got a free fish...guy didnt know it was still in there...demonasi male. Cool Cool huh! Now I get to figure out what to do with it...lol...and no I am not putting guppies in it..actually thinking of a malawi or tang set up....Or Tinfoil barbs and others? What yall think?

[fshfrk]

Get er done.

[TaTeR ToT]

Lol john.

I would do a nice colony if tropheus or since you already have a demasoni, one of the most striking Malawi tanks I've ever seen was al garcias 75g tank he used to have.
It was a 75g with black sand white holy rock, a large school of yellow labs and a large school of demasoni.
Either way if yo u go with cichlids you will want to add a second canister rated for the same size or larger or a wetdry.

[supadave]

You WON !!!!! That's a helluva deal !!! Congrats !!!!!!!!

[lilmissruffcountry]

You WON !!!!! That's a helluva deal !!! Congrats !!!!!!!!

Hell yaz!...I feel like I won the Lottery!

Lol john.

I would do a nice colony if tropheus or since you already have a demasoni, one of the most striking Malawi tanks I've ever seen was al garcias 75g tank he used to have.
It was a 75g with black sand white holy rock, a large school of yellow labs and a large school of demasoni.
Either way if yo u go with cichlids you will want to add a second canister rated for the same size or larger or a wetdry.

Bout what I was thinking...but with the white crushed coral substrate..I thought about some nice stacked black/grey slate in the corners, and some river stones in the middle. But think I definately like the lab/demasonis...maybe a good school of something else...trying to figure out a loach or botia that might make it in a tank with them.....

Get er done.

Thanks! I plan on it!

[TaTeR ToT]

pretty much any loach/botia will be fine with them.

[lilmissruffcountry]

pretty much any loach/botia will be fine with them.

Cool..this will be my first time with the malawi type cichlids...I have had new world cichlids, but never kept these. I have a eheim 2217 that I was planning on putting on the tank too...it is the one that was polishing the pond..so its out of service for a few months til I can figure out something better. And I have a bunch of larger HOBs too, and a couple power heads for added circulation and current. Hoping to have this all put together and running by Christmas...

[Cesar]

[sunrise]

Good buy, congratulations!

sunrise

[CichlidFan]

that's karma......

CF