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Cheers, I keep it looking clean as possible without algae build up. Apart from diatoms on the glass there is no algae to speak of, which I am happy about.
Convicts are underrated, females are the nicest imo and they have value as an interesting dither fish without inflicting damage.

That is a nice stock list and the tank is looking awesome. And yes that is one sexy convict, such great colouring.

Thought I'd might as well post an update of my current stocking. Tank is 450L (too small for full size specimens, but will do for now). Stock is 1x Cuban female (20cm), 1x red oscar (30cm), 1x jag (12cm), 1x super pretty convict female (<10cm), 1x longfin senegal bichir (20cm), 1x delhezi bichir (25cm), 1x palmas buttekoferi bichir (25-30cm).
Tank receives 50%-70% waterchange weekly and have zero problems. Cuban likes pushing the bichirs around sometimes and frequently wants to pair with the jaguar who doesn't want a bar of it.
 

Great looking fish. Deep rich colours. Very nice!
I don't think your attention span is particularly short. I know exactly what you are talking about regarding interest. For me it has always been about the journey and not so much about the end result so as soon as a new project is finished the first thing I want to do is change it.
I've gone through a similar phase in the last year where the big tank was just on an auto feeder and all I did with it was do a water change sometimes.
Lately my interest have sparked up again, it happened when the new geos started spawning and now I just want to breed all my fish again. So it comes and goes. Watching youtube clips can be really helpful in sparking interest again I've found.
I agree a change is in order but something like native marine would be a B&#%!* for your tank.
I think a better idea is to try to get that tank placed in you living room wall instead of in a room by itself. I'm sure it's possible somehow. I can help with drawings etc. if you need.
Good luck and keep in mind I have around 20-30 baby G. "Tapajos Orange Head" swimming around in my tank at the moment and I'm sure there are more to come.

Mine was an ex-henward haha...

^^^ What Adrienne said. You have to give them a good reason to buy from you instead of the importers. Two main options: sell at such a low price that they can increase profits more (obviously this means you don't get much), or, provide stock that has a difference, e.g. a hard to find/new colour variant etc.

If I was to suggest 'worthwhile' species that may help you cover some costs they would probably be: Angelfish (specific strain), some easy to breed tetra, Electric yellow African cichlid, maybe a nice swordtail. 

Small arowanas are fragile and are likely to be harassed by aggressive cichlids. No one way to do things, but I agree with growing the arowana to at least 20cm before adding some young oscars and the JD. Definitely don't wait until the arowana is too large as they can be equally if not more aggressive once they establish a territory, and will then resist the addition of other large fish.
Silver arowana will eventually outgrow that tank IMO.
Need at least 8ft by 3ft to accommodate one long term.
 

Noticed that this forum in general has dropped off considerably in the last couple of years, which is a real shame since there used to be an active community a while back.
How can we generate some more activity on here? There doesn't seem to be many new members asking questions and existing members don't post frequently.
I will make a better post with pics of my stock this week once I get new photos.
But for now I will just list my stock and setups.
I have one 450L tank stocked with:
1x 20cm female cuban
1x 10cm male jaguar cichlid (which my cuban keeps laying eggs with)
1x 15cm texas cichlid (suspected female) who has some real attitude
1x 8cm female convict with some really great colouration
1x P. delhezi bichir 20cm+
1x longfin senegal bichir 20cm+
1x P. palmas palmas bichir 25cm
I also have a 150L growout tank with:
5x peruvian angelfish (hope to breed at some point), got these from Hovmoller
2x younger cuban cichlids of which I hope one is a male so I can pair up my big female - will probably use the entire 450L for the breeding pair, got these 2 from FishyNZ
2x albino tinfoil barbs
Ultimate goal at this stage is to perpetuate the cuban cichlids in the hobby here. I am also keen on getting other less common cichlids more available to hobbyists here.
 
What are you guys keeping at the moment? List stock and pictures.
 

Yeah I believe Hovmoller had a small group of these guys too, but his were not mature and did not display such vibrant colours.
I think it would definitely be worth establishing these guys in NZ, I think they are the nicest looking eartheater. You have some excellent looking stock FishyNZ! Jealous.

I understand that facebook might improve aspects of online sharing but it does seem to have come at the expense of posting within the forum. There used to be almost daily activity when myself, DavidR, Henward and others would be posting in a couple of the subforums, but that just doesn't happen now. Need to promote existing members to post more I think. I have appreciated FishyNZ's posts a lot lately.
Nice marine tang. Eventually I'd like to go back to marine, except shift to NZ temperate.
Yeah that is an issue, but hard to avoid if no new bloodlines come in. I would love to get my hands on some festae again...should not have sold my male.

Yeah I believe Hovmoller had a small group of these guys too, but his were not mature and did not display such vibrant colours.
I think it would definitely be worth establishing these guys in NZ, I think they are the nicest looking eartheater. You have some excellent looking stock FishyNZ! Jealous.

Noticed that this forum in general has dropped off considerably in the last couple of years, which is a real shame since there used to be an active community a while back.
How can we generate some more activity on here? There doesn't seem to be many new members asking questions and existing members don't post frequently.
I will make a better post with pics of my stock this week once I get new photos.
But for now I will just list my stock and setups.
I have one 450L tank stocked with:
1x 20cm female cuban
1x 10cm male jaguar cichlid (which my cuban keeps laying eggs with)
1x 15cm texas cichlid (suspected female) who has some real attitude
1x 8cm female convict with some really great colouration
1x P. delhezi bichir 20cm+
1x longfin senegal bichir 20cm+
1x P. palmas palmas bichir 25cm
I also have a 150L growout tank with:
5x peruvian angelfish (hope to breed at some point), got these from Hovmoller
2x younger cuban cichlids of which I hope one is a male so I can pair up my big female - will probably use the entire 450L for the breeding pair, got these 2 from FishyNZ
2x albino tinfoil barbs
Ultimate goal at this stage is to perpetuate the cuban cichlids in the hobby here. I am also keen on getting other less common cichlids more available to hobbyists here.
 
What are you guys keeping at the moment? List stock and pictures.
 

Texas should be easy to find.
Festae came in once and have disappeared.
Myself and only a couple others on here have Cubans but they are hard to locate.
Vieja can be requested at your LFS easily I should think.
Midas/Red devil you can't be confident that they are one or the other, most are likely hybridised.
True Parrot not available in NZ
Not aware of true Trimacs ever coming in.
Choc cichlid should be able to be requested at LFS.

Really cool stock choice, groups of elephantnose are not common to see in the hobby. They get fairly large right?

Finally got around to taking some pics... dealing with some turbidity issues in the tank so excuse cloudiness.
Cuban is the big momma in the tank, got to be like 20cm eyeballing it.
Tank mates include: 2 midas, 1 convict, 1 salvini, 2 delhezi bichirs, 1 longfin senegal, 1 palmas palmas, 2 bristlenose.
I have 2 more salvinis and 2 small texas in a growout. Will add to main tank and then keep the ones I like the most in there.
 

Finally got around to taking some pics... dealing with some turbidity issues in the tank so excuse cloudiness.
Cuban is the big momma in the tank, got to be like 20cm eyeballing it.
Tank mates include: 2 midas, 1 convict, 1 salvini, 2 delhezi bichirs, 1 longfin senegal, 1 palmas palmas, 2 bristlenose.
I have 2 more salvinis and 2 small texas in a growout. Will add to main tank and then keep the ones I like the most in there.