African Malawi Fish Tank Aquarium
After many changes, the finished Malawi fish tank, housed in 450 litre bow fronted aquarium (5′x2′x2′) are approx 70 fish including 4 clown loach, 3 Pictus catfish, 3 Bristlnose pleco, 1 Rainbow shark, 4 Denison Barbs, 3 Tropheus and an array of Malawi Cichlids from a variety of Alunocara to Yellow Labs and Livingstonii.
Before you say there are too many fish, I promise you there aren’t, if there were any less then the aggression between them would be too high!
The set up consists of:
Juwel Vision 450 Fish Tank (450 litres)
1 x Juwel Jumbo internal filter
1 x Fluval FX5 external filter
2 x 1500lph powerheads with air inlets and polishing filters
2 x 300W heaters
Approx 100-120kg ocean rock
Colour and Blue T5 lighting tubes
Blue moonlight LED strips
As expected the malawis are breeding regularly, there always 2-3 females pregnant at any one time, 25-50% water change carried out once per week.
Approx cost including fish was £2k but it brings hours of relaxation so worth every penny !!
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Thanks, it is all …
Thanks, it is all real ocean rock and provides excellent breeding grounds and hiding places for new borns. I have recently changed the substrate to black and now there is more algae growth on the rocks it looks very realistic !
Yes, they’re fine, …
Yes, they’re fine, at least have been for the last 6 months or so, can’t see anything changing anytime soon
Nice Tank! Nice …
Nice Tank! Nice Fish! Really cool stone setting! Are these all real stones?
This vid is already in my favorites for a while.
Good luck with your tank.
Greetz
hi is it really ok …
hi is it really ok to keep pictus catfish and clown loaches and malawi…
everyone keeps tellin me ph is too high for clowns and pictus will get whiskas eaten!
There aren’t too …
There aren’t too many cichlids in the tank, if there were any less then they would be too aggressive. The tank is extremely well filtered and entire surface of the water is constantly moving to ensure maximum possible oxygen exchange at the surface. Also when the video was taken was just before evening feeding time so all fish are out of the rockwork and swimming around. They have all been in there around 6 months now and all seem quite happy, still breeding on a regular basis.
im a bit new in the …
im a bit new in the aquarums world but, they are too many cyclids to that aquarium you dont have problems ?
I have gone for …
I have gone for bristlenose for exactly that reason, they won’t grow too big. I do want to take out the pictus catfish and put synodontis in instead, the pictus catfish are just a nightmare to catch though, i have tried a few times and is just not happening !
FISH !!!
FISH !!!
ok take a chill …
ok take a chill pill
DO THE CORYS REALY GET BEATEN UP IF YOU PUT THEM.
Great busy Tank. …
Great busy Tank. Ignore the comment from Zeashanb6, Bristlenose ar perfect and will not grow too big. Dont include any corys, they’ll get beat up. If anything introduce Synodontis.multipunctatus cuckoo-catfish(lake Tanganyika).