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Best Cichlid Tank. Best Cichlid Aquarium I have seen update. 125 cichlid fish tank.
What's up fish tank people? Fishtanktv.com
Dustin's Fish Tanks! Bryan's Fish Tanks! Guy has got so much game we gotta do another
video of his cichlid tank. I've said it before I'll say it again; this
is the best cichlid tank I've seen with my own two eyes.
Umm, Bryan Terry Dude here is the camera man, talk about... talk about the species, and
talk about the whole deal man. So it's all you I don't know if you wanna kill the wire
to make it all look better but the peacocks are insane bro!
Alright this tank here is my pride and joy, I've got plenty of tanks as well but honestly
and surely this tank is where it's at. I made the background completely out of Styrofoam,
you are not looking at real rocks at all here, and you are looking at Styrofoam covered in
concrete and a lot of man hours putting it all together.
I got 20 or so different species of peacocks from lake malawai and there are a couple I
have got compressiceps, two compressiceps and a [didn't get the word] in here.
We will just go ahead, go ahead with the species here real fast for ya.
This fish is here commonly known as a Ti Onereof. The guy with that much color at the top is
a blue shoulder. This orange with a blue head is a German red.
Then we have a sunshine and that one there without the blue head just a blue nose is
the German..Or just a red peacock I'm sorry. Most people call it a Rubins
This blue guy here is ahaplochromismoorii often called the dolphin sicklin.
Then I have got a Sulphur head down here, it's another haplochromis. I believe that
one is a haplochromis. Then this guy here without any colors actually
is the coolest fish in the tank if it was colored up.
Gimme a min, I will think of a name for that one.
The black one with the red fins is a red fins is a red fin borleyi, he will get a blue body.
The female camouflage we are looking at, in the middle right now, is a Lithobates yellow
blaze. That's the girl. I have got some babies from her already.
The yellow one. This is my lemon jake. He is looking fantastic.
Ah let's see, where are the ones that we haven't mentioned yet.
This one is a pretty common blue wally. This looks really good. It's starting to get a
lot color to him. This peacock here with the white fins is an
O Torpoint. He's an awesome fish; I just got him not too long ago.
This one here with the yellow fins on top and the blue face and the greenish body is
a Red Tonawanda. That is one of my favorite peacocks.
Let's see... How do you keep aggression down?
For this tank I keep aggression down by packing a fish in her. Like, so there is about 20
or 25 different fish in here and then I have got about 20 catfish all hiding in this cave
in this back corner. You have 20 catfishes?
I have got 20 to 25, I can feed them here in a second. We can get a good video of the
cat fish but packing the fish in here and then not adding one fish at the time when
you add them really kinda helps. How many do you add at a time?
The lowest I have ever added is two; I added...The last two fish I add was the O Torpoint who
is in the corner and also the Red Tonawanda. So that's a big tip for cichlid's aggression,
adding at least two or three at a time? Yeah, if you just add one fish it's gonna
kinda act like a dead fish there. The others are just gonna chase it around and its not
gonna have time to adapt to your tank. If you add of them together like I have done
really ensure that I don't get much aggression, they chase both fish equally, so one fish
just isn't... Getting beat down?
Getting beat down terribly.
Let's see if we can get the catfish come out real fast. Alright we are gonna set this down
for a second, I will come back as soon as I get the food out first.
Bryan is feeding a crazy mix right now, I am gonna go ahead and ask you featuring a
new spectrum right now. I have been feeding a vegetable blend, green certainly, but the
catfish don't come out nearly as well unless there are some actual pellets at the bottom,
this is just standard new life again new life spectrum that is all we feed.
Yeah. He recently has been mixing it up but he feeds
the new life spectrum pellets, I feed the new life spectrum pellets, we are not sponsors
of the new life spectrum or anything yet but we'd love to be. And that's..Its good food,
its quality food, its why how you get great color.
Best food on the market. Alright let's get those catfish on camera.
Alright the catfish will start coming out here any second now as soon as they can smell
the food, they have been starving with the last couple of days and most of them are just
staying in the cave which is really disappointing. They don't know what to think, I have got
the filters turned off now. There you go.
Here is a couple of them coming out, they are camera shy.
What kinda catfishes are those? Synodontis we have Synodontis, Petricola is the majority
of the tank, of the catfish. I have got some Shawty and also an Angelecas. I think there
is some [didn't get the word ] in here too. Nice, they are pretty good.
Yeah they are good. Right here, I really regard it looks great man.
I appreciate it. What's your maintenance on this tank like?
Umm on this tank I deal water change, I do about 40% every fifteen to eighteen days.
40% huh? 40% on this, I used to go more but honestly
and surely, this tank is a 125 with all the styrofoam and displacement, I bet you have
only like 90 gallons of water here 40 gallons I take 35 to 36 gallons of water each time
and then add it back to the tank, and the fish are staying super healthy. I haven't
had a single loss from the tank, the aggression stands well and as you all can see the colors
are just really starting to pop. Most of these fish are right now are just about a year,
maybe a year and a half old, there is not a lot of old fish in this tank. They have
almost all gained an inch to two inches since I put them in here, sort of very happy tank,
everybody works very well together. Notice there is no Zebras in here, I don't recommend
mixing Zebras and Peacocks, you can add the Labidochromis, the yellow guy back there,
they are not pretty cool with anybody but I do not recommend putting Zebras in with
much peacocks, that will cause some serious aggression.
Why are the Zebras too aggressive? Zebras, yeah, they are [didn't get the word]
species, Zebras and Zebras and peacocks and peacocks, when you start mixing them, the
Zebras are usually a little bit more pugnacious than the peacocks, and they end up usually
causing damage to the fins and the... they end up killing the peacocks generally. I mean
like people do it all the time and they do it successfully but I don't recommend it,
if you read any ad conic books they'll probably tell you the same thing.
With this and the tank, I appreciate you all looking at it.
Looking great dude.