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Thanks man. You should come back to africans. You know they are awesome fish

Thanks wee2 and nudge :lol:

Thanks! Much clean look than before. I removed two big driftwood and re-ranged tank to current shape. For Red Empress coloring up, i found you really have to have patience to wait for it...

Thanks Guys :slfg: Glad you like it. Btw, golden snails are only the shell.... They were handful size and I thought they should be fine. But after two weeks they gone. :facepalm:

Great fish!! I love the food time video...Looks awesome and sounds awesome too

Re-ranged my tank and my fish grows much bigger. So I thought it is good time to share some photos, Enjoy Frontosa Red Empress - another few months to show full color :happy2: Eyebiter - still teen Sunsine Peacock Red Zebra Big Yellow Clowns Giraffe My Tank http://youtu.be/fYRo818zPB8

I gona put up some update pics for my fronts after work. They grow bigger now and got some nice hump​

nice eyebiter.. Once it reach adult size those tank mate will become his dinner :bggrn:

I have a colony of 12. They are fine with my frontsa and red empress colony. So far....

I never bother PH or KH in my tank. I just have the bottom of tank cover with 8cm coral sand. PH is constantly at 8 ~8.5. My cichlids are happy as :f77:

Thanks for sharing! :happy2:

I dont have problem with my fine coral sand either. I dont find much sand in my FX5 in every 6 month cleaning time. My intake is 5cm above sand. I guess I am just lucky Cheers

I have coral sand in my tank and also limestone. It keeps my tank PH around 8 ~ 8.5. I would suggest to use fine coral sand in malawi tank as fish just loves it and the light reflect effect is really nice too :happy2:

welcome back :thup:

It makes me think my camera is totally rubbish every time I look at your fish photos ! :an!gry NICE FISH mate! :nfs:

Nice. :sml2:

Nice setup! some frontosa would be nice :slfg:

Love the dragonblood and Eureka albino. :nfs: Nice photo ...My 550D can never do it :facepalm:

Nice tank!

I have several groups of cichlids all about to reach adult age. I am think to do a shuffle to make one tank malawi tank and the other Tang&Hap mixed tank. They are currently seperated and mixed in two tanks. What I am going to put into the Tang&Hap mixed tank to start with are Full grown Adult male Stuartgranti Maleri X 1 Full grown Adult male Red Kadango X 1 (I am thinking to get rid of this guy as it may cause problem with Red empress) Semi-adult Giraffe group X 4 (Remove and leave only one male and one female at the end) Semi-adult Frontosa group X 10 Semi-adult Red Empress group X 12 Semi-adult Eye biter X 10 (remove most of eye biter only leave one male adult or two) I may add more adult male peacocks and adult male brown hap later on to increase the color variety. Consider the only possible FEMALE would be Giraffe, Frontosa, Red Empress and Eye biter(for a short period of time). Would any above species likely to cross breed create hybirds? My aim is to have a nice MIXED display tank while still able to get Fonts, Red Empress and possibly Giraffe breed in there. Thanks in advance.

Found my adult breeding male got a BIG pop eye on Friday. He is around 11CM. Right eye is about twice as big as left eye on Friday. It looks like it is going to pop out... I am monitoring him in these two days and he seems fine. Still active and some times try to fight with other bigger fish... Today during feeding I found the pop eye become smaller. It is almost the same size as normal eye. But on his right side body I can see two red dot pop up. It looks like fighting injure causes scale pop up. But why it is a red color? My question is does this sounds like a common sickness? Should I take him out before it passing on to other fish? Or it is just a normal injure infection... Btw, all of other fish looks fine.

Found my adult breeding male got a BIG pop eye on Friday. He is around 11CM. Right eye is about twice as big as left eye on Friday. It looks like it is going to pop out... I am monitoring him in these two days and he seems fine. Still active and some times try to fight with other bigger fish... Today during feeding I found the pop eye become smaller. It is almost the same size as normal eye. But on his right side body I can see two red dot pop up. It looks like fighting injure causes scale pop up. But why it is a red color? My question is does this sounds like a common sickness? Should I take him out before it passing on to other fish? Or it is just a normal injure infection... Btw, all of other fish looks fine.

My Red Empress colony finally grows up and around 6CM now. Most of them shows a bit colors. Especially saveral large males shows blue on the scale and red on the tail and fin. My 180L grow up tank seems a bit small for them or in the near future. Im thinking to put them into my main display tank to make them grow faster (bigger tank space...) But Im a bit consern about the current stock in the display tank may put presure on red empress. They may stop showing colors.... Please correct me if im wrong. I have two lagre Red Kadango around 18CM. A sunshine peacock around 12CM. Giraffes around 10CM. Others I dont think would be a threat on my red empress as they are mbuna... Could any one help on this? Will my red empress stop growing color if I put them in there?.... Thanks

I have 5cm coral sand at the bottom of the tank. Every few weeks I have to clean the section between the sand and the tank glass. As it always have brown color algae grow in that section. Do I feed too much so my FX5 cannot consume and converts all the waste that fish produced? Does anyone of you have the same issue with algae between the substrate and glass? What do you do with it?..... I can obviously just leave it but it look really bad when the light turns on.... :facepalm: BTW.. My 20ish BN does not do anything on cleanning glass... they only interested in rocks and draftwood. I am thinking to move them out of the tank....

It was fine until the second week of my new tank established. All of my other Cichlids are fine but Red Kadango. I have two big male Red Kadangos and they are roughly the same size about 20 ~ 25CM. One of them constantly gets chased and beaten up by the other. The one get chased, I can see there are a few small bits of scales are missing from the body. The body color is not that shine anymore turns to a bit dark. The one chasing, boday colors are very nice and no wound on body at all. Is this because they are use to be in a 6 ft tank and now suddenly change to 5 ft? They were fine in my 6 ft and fight some times but never like this. Their color were both good. Any advice? Sell one of them? or leave it until they settle down and fine out who is the boss?....