bigfishhead

$150 Surplus to need and it has been left in the garage for a while. New/Full bucket never opened. Best before date June 2023. Pickup Auckland/Northshore. Can post at buyer's expense. 0220840109

No worries. Some products enhance your fish color very well and sometimes the color looks almost unreal. But everything comes with cost once you stop using them your fish loss color in a week. New life spectrum cichlid formula is the way to go. NLS does not like some other product that contains color enhancement ingredients that gona shorten your fish life into half. I feed my cichlids only on NLS 1mm formula. It make my cichlid health and happy. And of course showing REALLY nice color.

No worries. Do you have a more recent photo of the fish? Does it develop more red color? If so it could be some sort of German Red/Ruby Red. Otherwise it is just Maleri Orange.. Cheers

+1 to what camtang said above. You like brightly coloured cichlids and your tank size is limited for 240L. And base on what stock we have in NZ, haps and tangs are generally too large for your tank size. Dwarf Tangs or shelly dwarf dont have that brightly colour compares to mbuna and peacock. Tropheus setup is nice but in NZ it is pretty hard to get decent stock supply and these fish needs extra care than mbuna and peacocks. I would say mixed mbuna or all male peacocks would suit you the best right now. As for the substrate, try to use bright white fine substrate if possible. Cichlids likes digging. I would suggest fine white coral sand. It lights up cichlids' colour the best.

Yellow and Demasoni are the classic combination for Malawi cichlids tank setup. They are my personal favorite still. You can get away with small tank size when they are young or juvenile size. But eventually you will need a 180L or plus for group of Yellow and demasoni. For tank size, a classic 1.2M tank with dimension 1200mm L X 400mm W X 400mm H (190L) is a good start, or 1200mm L X 500mm W x 400mm H (240L) is even batter. Malawis especially Mbuna are more bottom layer fish. You need tank footprint much more than height. For fish number, it depends on your tank size. Typically you'd better to have dozens of yellows and demasonis in each group. The more you have the less aggression in the tank. For yellows, I would say any number above 6 would be good start. They are not that aggressive most of the time but only during breeding season. For demasoni... thats another story... You can have a singel fish or have a lot, say 12 - 15 to start with or even more if you can. I would strongly against any number below 10. For red color fish that will get along with Yellow and Demasoni, red/peach zebra. They are same as yellow not so aggressive as demasoni... So just get serveral to keep themselves as a company. The other option would be dragon blood but they might grow pretty big later on. But if you raise them and grow them out with yellows and dems from young they wont grow that big due to in the same small tank, get a couple if you like them. Good luck on your setup.

Very Nice! You could always add some Demasoni to form the classic Yellows and Demasoni Malawi tank. The colour combination still my top favorit among many Africans. Hard to say what those peacocks are considering too many hybirds out there. But one of them (peach colour one) does looks like some forms of dragonblood to me. Keep us posted on your progress ：）

Nice looking fish! I've seen people sell it as Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi Otter Point on trademe. But personally I think the shape and color is 95% Aulonocara Stuartgranti Maleri Orange. Especially the patterns on the tail. But by looking closely on the top fin (white color) it may has little otter point gens in it. So it could be a cross between Otter Point and Maleri Orange. Just my 2 cents.

First and third picture looks like Lionhead cichlids to me. The second one looks like electric blue fryeri but not 100% sure. How big are they? You may want to post this in Cichlid section to draw more attention. So others may give some more advise on this.

Very nice selection. Most of your listing are "available" in NZ. Its just some of them are quite rare to see. So it may take some times to stock up your tank. The only two that I dont think we have in NZ are Copadichromis azureus and Protomelas spilonotus. The Copadichromis azureus looks pretty similar to Electric blue ahli which we do have. Good luck on stocking up the tank. Photos update please

Nice looking setup! Good move on the floor reinforcement. Cannot wait to see when its fully setup

Need these gone to clear some space. They are in excellent condition. Welcome to view. SOLD 38L, Aqua One AR380 (Silver) twin light bulb (white and pink), heater and build-in filter. $50 (http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/aqua-one-ar380-aquarium-black/m/925/) SOLD 54L, Juwel Korall 60 with build-in light (white) and EHEIM internal filter. $70 (http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/juwel-korall-60-tropical-tank-package/m/925/) 70L, Aqua one ecostyle 61 with aqua one stand (Black). It come with two air pumps, heater, 10KG pepples, build-in LED light and filter. $150 (Tank only cost $200 along at Hollywood fish farm - http://www.hollywoodfishfarm.co.nz/detail/view/aqua-one-ecostyle-61-black-70l/m/925/) Text 0220840109 to arrange viewing. Cheers

Congrats! Thats an awesome experience there! Your tank setup looks pretty cool. Good idea on making the stand bigger than tank. It gives you chance to upgrade the tank to 6ft later on. Trust me you only go bigger and bigger on tanks Good luck on your project. Keep us posted on photos.