75g bio-type

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I am going to go with a malawi bio-type. What kinds on plants grow there? Anubias? Vals? I am hoping to have a few plants.
I am trading a goat skull for a 75g straight up and I am going to want to stock it with some african cichlids and I think have a bio-type. Because the person I am buying the tank from makes all his tanks (has a website and everything) I am asking him to make it a little bit deeper for the cichlids/syno's. Now I need your help stocking it.

I have no clue on what I stock it with and any advice would be appreciated. What about this stocking list?
1m-Protomelas taeniolatus (red empress)
1m,2f-Aulonocara sp. "Maleri" (orange peacock)
1m,2f, - Pseudotropheus estherae (red zebra cichlid)
1,2f - Pseudotropheus socolofi (Powder blue cichlid)
1m - Pseudotropheus demasoni
1 -Synodontis njassae
1m,2f - Pseudotropheus elongatus
1m - Melanochromis joanjohnsonae ('Pearl of Likoma')
1 (not sure I would be able to sex it) - Cyrtocara moorii


What do you think? Fairly stocked I think....

If it is over-stocked please tell me, if there are ANY incompatibilities please tell me! I have a 55g I plan on sticking some fry in to raise, which ever breeds first I guess, all the other fry will be culled or will be eaten by the other fish. I have a LFS that wil take them or I can ship them out as I have done that before with other fish and inverts.

Thanks,
Caton

Okay.

Any ideas for fish?

I saw rustie cichlid but the females look dull (unless pictures don't do it justice)

Not off the top of my head....... I've always had species tanks and really no bio types.....

I want to do a bio-type just to say I have done it...

I think I might set up a 29g as a shellie breeder with a 30g grow-out and a 55g as a moori or some other mbuna breeder (I woud be stripping the fry from the mother and puting them in the 55g)

So there is no malawi fish that would go with that stock list and is not blue or yellow? I may just have to stick with Acei then...

Do a serch and see what you come up with and post it, we can let you know if it will work or not.


Oh on the mooriis you wont need to strip them, just move them to a 10g at some point during their holding. They are the best moms ever!

A 10g? Isn't that a bit small?

Nope, not for one girl. I though the same thing at first but they do well in a 10g with a sponge or 2 and a wad of java moss. They have 30-60 fry so they are good for a few weeks in a 10g then a 29g is in order for them.
Heck I have put them in a 5g bucket for a few hours till they spit But that's just because I was dumping the fry into the sump to grow out in there.

Lol, I guess I will have to get a couple of 10g's from walmart.

Well 17g plastic bins from home depot work as emergency tanks and are pretty cheap.

Or there that too....