I was never into Africans before this
but man, am I telling you
These guys are beautiful
No wonder you guys. No wonder they're so popular in the Hobby
Look at them, aren't they beautiful
Just absolutely stunning
More African Cichlids have shown up to finish off the African Cichlid rack if you guys remember we have Lake
Tanganyika down below
And we went with some Trophius Ikola all of which are doing fantastic, and then above it we were going to do Lake
Malawi and up here I wanted to do some
Peacocks or Aulonocara, but here's the problem
These fish need to be quarantined and you guys know that these racking systems share the same sump
But you'll also remember that I plumbed these aquariums so that I can run them
Individually if I want to and just separate the sumps, so that's basically what I did
I'm all out of quarantine area, but I had to get these guys
Before they were no longer available. Now these came from
Jeff at One Fish Two Fish he brought them in
To me from Thailand. So the plan here is to run a Malawi tank with all
Male Peacocks, it's a really beautiful tank and really awesome
display tank to have.
However with that said I
have to kind of buy quite a few of them
To make sure I kind of get what I'm looking for I do have a few DOAs
There should be at least 30 in here though. I was accounting for that
I knew that these guys are typically don't travel that well from that far away
I do see some ammonia burn and what not but let's kind of go. Oh boy some of these are just
Absolutely stunning, what I'm going to do is
Quickly go through what we have here. I should have three of each
There - too far along in condition
I'm simply going to, usually I would temperature acclimate them,
I'm just gonna get them out of the bag and into that tank that's more important right now. The water is just too -
It's basically to sour I don't I don't feel comfortable with this
Even the box stinks might have a leak in the package or something like that
Get him out of the bag get him into some fresh water
Mmm
Beauty you see that beautiful
The packaging is done really well, but simply put
They're coming from Taiwan. That's a long ways oh
WOW!
Look at that
Look at him he belongs in the ocean what a gorgeous fish. I was never into Africans before this
But man, am I telling you, these guys are beautiful no wonder. no wonder. They're so popular in the hobby eh
That's me being narrow-minded and just liking what I like you know and I can see that with other people saying I don't like that
Fish that you have or this fish you've never owned it. Maybe you need to show some appreciation, maybe keep one look at that
Look at it. Oh
Come on beautiful, this is ridiculous, they're beautiful
Yellow Peacock
That's what that was you get another one here, so again open the bag get them out get them out of that disgusting
water look at this
Look at this you
Can't tell me that's not beautiful Oh
Gorgeous little thing
Now I don't know if all these guys are gonna get along or not. I don't know if
You know if I got the right ratio of males to females
but what I do know is I just got a variety I seen them and
I was like you know what if I don't get these guys now winter's coming
These guys aren't traveling well because they're said they come in so big, but look at this guy nice and active
beautiful
I
Felt it was a must to get these guys quite large and since they're so big they do
You know they simply just don't travel. Well. They're just I
Don't find they're a tough fish at all compared to some that I have look at this
Man's gallery was the best decision I ever made
We get to explore and you know really experience and check out all these amazing fish. You know
I'm just so excited to do that look so this is how I do it. Cut it open
Get the fish out
Beauty the the tanks are at about 25 degrees Celsius, maybe 26 and by the feel of the water
It's very similar so typically I would temperature acclimate, but these guys are in a dire situation
The water really is quite bad and stinks, and you just want to get him out this guy's a bit banged up
but he is a
Lawanda
Look at him, so he's more of a dark blue. He's got like an orange
Orange fin there. He's not gonna jump. I'm gonna grab him like this if he tries to get out of my hands plus
They're quite weak right now. Yeah, this guy's just
Losing air in the bag. You might be okay. He's upside down
you know
I'm hoping we don't lose too many, but I did buy extra because I thought you know I might oh
He's beauty look at him. He's gonna be fine. He's quite
Happy in my hands. Oh isn't he gorgeous
Look at that
What a stunner
What a beaut what a beauty look at him Nick gorgeous poor guy
And it could be okay
no, so I think I've got about 33 36 in here or something like that enough to fill the box and
That number is to account for losses and to sex them make sure I get all males
And you know maybe let be left with 15
This is an OB
So this is like a calico type fish
Multiple colors see them. They're just that beauty
Oh, and he's a stunner - fantastic
Do that
Me nice
beauty malawi blue
And boy is he ever blue
so you're gonna get a lot of blue pink cocks you're gonna get a lot of blue colors, and I
Guess you get some reds and stuff and there are some redfish coming. It was just basically a variety of
colors
Look absolutely
He's bluer than the net
See if we could see him here
See that beauty he just said hi whoa look at him
Look at him oh
You know so I was never a huge fan of African cichlids
And I think it will a big part of it was like
Every african cichlid tank started to look the same to me everybody had the same fish
But you know now that we've kind of looked at them
We got to admit
And these are beautiful aren't that?
Hopefully I can help change a lot of more of your opinions as well
We'll see. I don't know what this guy is
so many blues I
Have a look at the stay in there
whoo
Whoo
This is a strawberry peacock
Should have about 3 of these guys -
Hey easy whoever strong its might even be a girl
Um you can see it
well uh
Some of these are a little too feisty once they color out they're gonna look stunning. That's another red
Pretty nice indeed you can already see the little red behind its Gill plate
Isn't that pretty a lot of Blues in these fish the ruby red?
Is quite nice
Blueface gonna have a red body
Look at that stunner
It's one of the nicest ones like so far really like that
Well we read Jacobs so we got a lot of Blues and a lot of redfish. It's kind of the two options that you have
But lots of different patterns and different looks. It's a red Jacob
So it's literally the next day. I put a temporary light on this tank just a you know a
Fluorescent shop light or LED shop light actually. You'll also know that I added in some of the rocks
These are those hollow aqua decoy rocks. I felt like they kind of match the background
They do have like fake algae on them to an extent so once that background grows the algae these will look absolutely amazing
With that said in total we lost I think it was
Five in total or four so there's about twenty-eight in here now clearly too many
I'm gonna grow them out pick my favorites and that sort of thing but
Guys these these are absolutely gorgeous fish aren't they?
And you know the plan with this scape here, we're not gonna be doing a whole lot more than that
Just because too many territories will form and what will happen for example is this guy you know
Will create a territory over here
And literally the rest of the fish will be forced to swim over here so in not creating these territories and not scaping it
Too densely and I can move these rocks by the way, they're just they're literally just sitting there
But in not scaping it too much. We're gonna keep them all swimming out in the open these guys are eating right now
But you know keeping them all swimming out in the open and hopefully we can only have males in here
So there's no females that are gonna create fights and whatnot but
ultimately, I just wanted like a
Display of really beautiful colors like a rainbow of colors, and I think we're gonna get that
Yeah, just I'm in love with these guys so we got a lot of colors a lot of these guys have colored up really nicely
Since at being added, and they're only gonna get better. I mean this they haven't even been in here 24 hours
but you know I'll closely monitor them and
We'll see. I mean I don't think we can keep all of them
But I do have the water volume to do so and the more the better just because it's gonna
diffuse a lot of the aggression and whatnot and stop a lot of fights, but
Yeah, what a tremendous amount of colors here? You know maybe over time?
we'll have some issues or some fighting and what not but I'm positive we're gonna be able to handle it and I
Don't know. I hope you guys enjoy this tank. I hope you are as excited about it as I am and
Maybe if you're like me
Who you know I always gravitate to Lake Tanganyika
You know almost snubbing my nose up at Lake, Malawi, but you know this has definitely changed my mind
And I hope it's changed many of your minds as well
You know just to see that the true beauty and colors malawi
Definitely has the better colors in my opinion, but lake tanganyika has a lot more
Interesting fish, but again, that's just an opinion and experience, but you know again. I'm excited about this tank and
Truly excited to show you guys
These fish and bring you along for it as well
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