What should Darbex Do?

[aquabee]

Yeah this isn't for my wife. I meant she doesn't know because I haven't told her I am doing this.

poor sonja

[cichlid1409]

optimally I would go with my original suggestion

bottom
Xenotilapia melanogenys 4-8
Lamprologus ocellatus 'gold' 6-10
albino bristlenose / gold nugget or green phantom plecos 2-5

middle
tropheus sp. 'kasakalawe' 15-20

top
cyprichromis leptosoma 15-25

I say 'optimally' because if you go with faoi or furcifers there probably not get along with the xenos as their breeding behaviors are similar so if you get them it thows off the whole balance imo. obviously there is a blue/yellow color scheme going on here that I think will look great especially if you throw in some tall bright green plants like jungle Val. Also, I've loved the idea of live rock in a FW tank since I saw it years ago and it should help with bio load as well.

[Darbex]

Yeah this isn't for my wife. I meant she doesn't know because I haven't told her I am doing this.

[Complexity]

Thinking about African, but what? My wife has no idea this is my little surprise to her.

I know you have decided on an tang community tank, but just wanted to offer one thought here. If this tank is for your wife, do you know which fish/tanks she likes? Everyone's preferences are different, and it would be a shame if it turned out to be a beautiful tank, but not one that matches her personal preferences.

Is your wife into tanks? Which fish or tanks does she comment about the most? What aspects of aquariums does she like the most (decor, breeding, fish colors, fish behaviors, etc)? For example, I'm into decor, colors, and breeding behaviors (hence, planted tanks with dwarf cichlids).

I'm sure whatever tank you do will be excellent, and you've probably already thought this all out. I just wanted to be sure to mention it. Sometimes well meaning husbands make the mistake of giving wives the most wonderful gifts, but just not what the wife wanted. Kind of like the man who buys his non golfing wife a set of golf clubs. He thinks it'll get the wife interested in his sport, but the end result is he bought himself a new set of gold clubs and his wife is hopping mad and hurt.

[mnemenoi]

We have some multi's fry that should likely be ready eventually... not super ballin, but fun...

[aquabee]

Those are really similar to the stappersii, just a little darker.

[eklikewhoa]

speciousus! the black occelatus

I would do 10-20 of each.

go through and pick from each section, C and R would have most of them in one spot and great prices too.

[aquabee]

Nice! I nearly did a Tang community. As far as shellies, I think you should look for neolamprologus stappersii/meleagris. Badass, gorgeous, cool behaviors, and really not very common. Difficult to breed as well. I personally like calvus also, but that's a personal preference sorta thang.

[aquabee]

you should do the same thing bee did only bigger so her new tank looks nano again by comparison. muhahahaha

His 330 already dwarfs my entire apartment as an entity.

[moganman]

Xenotilapia as bottom dwellers, cyprichromis for the top and pick your choice for middle

[Darbex]

I am going to stick with a Tang community. Stocking lists guys.

[Lydia]

OMG I AM SO GRATEFUL I'M FEMALE! LOL

Seriously, I will give you a "female" idea. I have a 150 show tank that I did over a year ago as an experiment and it worked beautifully and I continue to add to it. EVERYONE that ever comes to my house goes crazy over this tank. Now I have like 40 freaking tanks in my house, and it never ends that this is the one that "wows" people.

It is a mixture of ALL different kinds and species of fish that are not suppose to be together, but I took each fish's needs/temperament into consideration and weighed it out. I like things that are "different" heehee. I just made sure I didn't put m/f of same fish if it would stir up breeding aggression with that particular fish. (Whereas other fish do breed but cause no problems) Not for everyone, but thought I'd give you an idea.

Here is a list of some of the fish I have in there: Assorted angels, various geophagus, clown loaches, snowball pleco, gold nugget pleco, mango pleco, red scat, monodactylus serbae & argenteus, yellow labs, white labs, rusties, acei, frontosa, rotkeil severum, red severum, gold severum, green severum, nicaragensis, chocolate cichlid, redhead cichlid, blood parrots, honduran red points, blue sapphire, blue dolphin, boesemani rainbow, turquoise rainbow, parkinsoni rainbow, tr. golden kazumba, tr. yellow rainbow, tr. maswa duboisi, tr. red moliro, and a couple of petro famula & some others. Freakin crazy! BUT it is SO beautiful and there is NEVER any aggression - it is active but peaceful. Actually the ones that are a regular pain in the *** are the parrots - but they are all attitude, can't do any harm!

It is lavishly scaped with a mixture of natural colored pool sand and black sand mixed together which makes it look like realistic lake substrate. I have driftwood, petrified wood, big river rocks, slate, a bit of holey rock, and tons of silk plants.

[ssrprelude]

Yall two fresh like that?

[Nickintex]

Nick I said you can have that for your private collection not to be posting it around. Jeez

I thought you meant the OTHER pic of you. My bad.

[Darbex]

Ok so Tangynikan community it is. So give me a list and amounts of each to keep from each person. This is going to be an election tank.