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I think that is a good idea as well. Make sure to pass along your info to Red Deer's local pet stores and Olds because they rarely take in surrendered fish and are responsible for alot of needless flushing of babies and healthly adults that outgrown their tanks...I am sure of it!!!

I just posted a pic in the 'member tank' link in photography... fish are alittle blurry but you can see the color range

Only 5 months .... Great Job, alot of thought and work went into your planted tank for sure. Here is my tank. I am still trying to be a better photographer,lol. PS... this is a way better way for people to see the members tanks (all in one link), my suggestion is that if you want to comment on the pics you must include a photo of your tank when you do so,that way... it still stays all pics.

I am always trying to keep it all male mixed mbunas and peacocks(various sizes for appeal) ( I am very picky trying to find the very best coloration and overall look of them too)... I did recently have another accident with a female ob peacock holding but the dad is a stunner so its ok i guess,lol As for the list, I love my fish so I will be happy to share what I think makes a colorful tank and would love to share many pics, but I really am bad at getting a clear pic (I have tryed over and over) mbunas: 2 cobalt blue 2 red zebra 2 electric yellow 2 lab. travs (both dark blues) + one ob female 1 brownish red fulleborni 1 juvenille demonsai (kept one baby from an earlier accident to see the results and then gave parents to mom) 1 kenyi peacocks/others: 3 dolphins 1 6 strip front 2 ruby reds 5 albinos (two obs (dark pink and yellow), other colors ( yellow and nude) 3 obs, one red, one yellow + the female 1 female girrafe venustus (great color less aggression) 1 sunshine orange 1 sunshine yellow 1 red empress 1 yellow regal 1 blue regal 1 strawberry ob hybred 1 strawberry plus a few other really nice males that I haven't been able to identify.

Thank-you again for delivering the ob on your way up to Edmonton today... very nice healthy fish (great addition to my tank!) Jodi

Sounds good, I would love a pic when you get the chance. I can not add a front that big to my tank as my mom's is that size and goes after anything smaller in his territory so I want to keep my tank peaceful. I'll waite to hear from you then. Have a great night.

Hello. Do you still have the 'one strawberry ob' off your african list that is pinned? If so, can you pm me a photo... I have one of that type already and love it. I am also looking for a "really nice" around 4" male front?

I had fun picking out that wood from a huge box in Big Al's Calgary.... it is terranium wood not drift wood sold for $23 a piece, and I weighted in down by screwing suction cups from the bath isle in the dollar store to the bottoms (that only took about a month to be saturated enough to remove the cups)! I added dollar store plastic plants to the ends of the back branches to make them look like trees (they already have a wire in them so I just wrapped them around the branch). Big Al's in Edmonton will carry the same stock wood.

Just upgraded from my old 60gal. Bought this 120 from a really nice member from Calgary. My fish are as happy as me... I got to redecorate and they all love the extra space to swim around in! Hope you all like my tank design!

I agree with overstocking to achieve multi level swimmers! I have mbunas, peacocks and a hap (all male for best color). They swim top to bottom and my hidding spots are at either end of the tank so that I can see them all in the middle!

I don't want to add sting to your wound either, but I have bought fish from Calgary and drove around for hours with them in a piecespet store thermal bag with no chemicals and then returned home making it over 4hours back to Innisfail with nothing extra except asking them to reduce the water and fill the bag with alot of oxygen ratio about 3/8 water/air? I do not buy large fish either. It is aweful having no great pet stores in Central Alberta too! Sorry for your loss.

Hello all! Does anyone know the time frame I am looking at the keep my driftwood wet and to stop floating? I have rocks holding it down as of yesurday.

Hahaa... I clean my own too, but if I had the funds to install a huge wall tank I would leave it up to professionals because I already hate reaching way down into the tank with my whole arm to clean the gravel.

Thank-you. I am definatly a fan of this tank design and the bowfront... although I would choose a custom built in wall aquarium any day if the cost of having them professionly cleaned wasn't soo high per month,lol.

I am not ever looking at getting babies in my tank soo I am all for hybreds if they are beautiful... so next time you get fry from your peacock female, grow them out and I will buy one of the males when they color up,lol!

Thank-you, that helps alittle as I am going for a male only tank, just want to know the name...look them up and avoid the females if they have different colorings.

New member... I live in Innisfail. I hate driving all the way to Calgary and Edmonton for unique and good looking africans. My tank is all male and I love a variety of color which is why the pet stores in Red Deer drive me crazy with all the same common cichlids and if something new comes in they are fry size due to a no trade in policy? Love to meet the central alberta cichlid lovers.

I have no idea which one this is... the color to the eye is a fair tangerine?

Hi Doug. I used to buy fish from you (me and my mother when we lived in Maple Ridge. We are both in Innisfail, AB now... but still love cichlids and remember your beautiful octagon full of parrots! Neat to see people from BC I have met on here as well. Jodi

I have recently upgraded my starter 25gal bowfront to this one for my all-male mixed mbuna/peacocks (very happy fish now!) I have had different fish over the years, but love these guys the best for color and variety.