Pictures!

Here are some more pictures from the Cichlid Tank. Dad's been feeding them very well.

The African Cichlid Tank: 26 fish and counting

This tank is a 120 gallon.
There are 24 african cichlids,

- 2 jewel fish
- 2 rusty's
- 6 yellow lab's
- 1 Livingstonii
- 3 Lavender Mbuna's
- 2 Golden Mbuna's
- 3 Edwardi's
- 1 Neolamprologus leleupi (firecracker)
- 1 Copadichromis flavimanus
- 2 Black Cichlid's
- 2 corydora's

The pH is alkaline.

There's a big Magnum filter running, 1 small fluval, a power-head for circulation, bubble wand, a heater, & 1 powerglo & 1 marine glow for light ( 8 hours/day).

Editing Time

Feb 01 '06

My dwarf Hygrophila's grew the fastest. A lot of them however had mushy brown roots and some were completely dead on the bottom. A lot of leaves on the rotala's aren't doing so well towards the bottom of the plant, towards the tops they're thriving. I ended up doing a big clean up today, cleaned the gravel, took out all the dead plants, switched a few around, and trimmed the bushier side so that some of the plants could get a chance to root better.

photograph of the leaves that aren't doing to well Feb 01 '06

Overall it got pretty messy, hopefully where I moved my hygro's they will thrive better. Once most of these plants settle and get their roots in deep and their stems look healthy, I'm going to get some more plants and play around with the scene a bit, it's really boring me now. My new pigmy chain sword just spread two runners, so hopefully I'll soon have a nice bed of grass.
I'm seeing a little bit of green mildew all around the tank now too, haven't looked into that yet.

photograph of a new patch starting feb 01 '06