Love that tank,I was just telling my buddy I wanted to switch over to that driftwood and,stone look,but,with darker substrate,light on the scaping,and,then I see this...Nice 👍🏿
Wowwwwwww!!! One of my favorite tanks on RU-vid. Amazing!!! My vote for the 75 would be Africans! Peacocks and a few smaller haps. Plenty of color, super fast moving, and you can get some fairly small ones at about 3 inches and they will grow up nicely in there. My group of up to 20 fish did great in my old 75👌🏼
@@CichlidBros The only reason why I’d say to do it is because you’re pretty meticulous in how you keep your tanks, and I’ve always had success with them by keeping up with water changes and just keeping them well fed while living in clean water. There is no match color wise for an African Cichlid tank....Some salt water set ups, but none in the fresh water game unless your taking giant 400 plus gallon tanks that are full of Vieja...I’d say give it a shot, your bro has already had extreme success with his Predator Hap tank and can always lend a hand👌🏼
Love it! I used the same sand for my son’s tank. I also used about 4 bottles of that turbo start when I cycled my 125 gallon tank but I was too chicken to put all my fish in right away lol!
Currently have 2, 125g acrylic all male cichlid tanks. Love your vids. Cichlids are the only fish to have IMHO...Love the green terror...Thanks for the vids...
Love it! For the 75, I'd look into an African cichlid set up. Colorful, somewhat fast moving fish that may attract the eyes of your students or create a bio type...maybe amazon or Asian theme. Great for learning about environments
For a 75 I totally suggest an oddball aquarium I think would be amazing, some of the oddball fish are really interesting and I think your students would definitely find it fascinating.
Another South American theme tank to go with some of the others, you could do a huge school of rummynose or silvertip tetra, a bunch of either apistos or rams, and a few angels. Fully planted, doesn’t take a lot of maintenance so it’s perfect easy tank for a classroom.
It reminds of when I was in high school my marine bio teacher let us keep a pair of Convicts I’ve been keeping Cichlids ever since. Great stuff, keep it up. Have you guys ever kept some odd ball fish like spotted Raphael Catfish or yo-yo loaches? They go really well with CA/SA cichlids especially Raphael cats.
Electric blue acra .Parrotfish. ,Angelfish .not too big silver dollars And believe it or not you can’t find us in the Midwest Michigan A rainbow sick quite beautiful I’m sure you can think of something else to add to this but the deep orange red and blue is absolutely gorgeous and A Black angel or half black you pick the color I like the platinum and the black adds the sparkly touch! And if you can find a beautiful Male Gold sickly when they come in to color they’re beautiful golden color with the black belly. A gem for sure Often overlooked her being a plan but they’re not At least in my opinion.Thanks for the beautiful video there’s only about three people I watch on the Internet and you happen to be one
Not saying you went wrong at all but 2 200 watt heaters is a bit overkill if you have all that flow. I have one 200 watt in my 180 and it does the job perfectly. Just a heads up
Id go with a tanganyikan set up for the 75; some julies or leleupi, calvus, gold ocellatus and paracyprichromis nigripinnis neon blues. It will look amazing and you can use it to teach your students about the diversity of lake tanganyika and how each fish has adapted to fill a niche. Plus its something different considering you already have SA cichlids.
I went from a black substrate to sunset gold as well and my jack Dempsey lightened up so much. Wonder why yours didn’t... I’m thinking of going back to the black substrate
What do you do when school is closed? I've been thinking of doing a tank in my classroom, but I ran out of room in my house for any extra tanks over the summer break.
Im usually at the school during breaks coaching. Usually not away from the tanks for more than a few days and have auto lights and occasionally auto feeders
I’d do what someone already suggested below and do some sort of tanganyikan setup with maybe caudopunks and some julidochromis, calvus, compressiceps etc...it’ll put your brothers monochrome predator hap tank to shame!!
I feel like u have or had aggression because there weren’t enough fish in the tank. Need some silver dollars or Congo’s to break up the aggression. I have a 75 with an needle fish Oscar Salvini convict and silver dollars. They’re great Idk just a recommendation:)
Hello, you mentioned your tank is 5' x 2' x 2'. That is actually 150 gallons. Do you know the actual dimensions? It looks more like 5' x 1.5' x 2' tall which is about 112 gallons.
I like to know the size of tanks you guys keep your fish in to better visualise my own. The upgraded tank for Joker and Jack is 5ft by 2ft by 2ft....is that not 150 US gallons and not 110? Not being pedantic I just need to know 😂
@@CichlidBros brilliant cheers, I've got similar dimensions and recently got myself a baby Jack.... thinking long term I may need a GT in there as well and raise them together 😀
Loved the video man 👍 But I’m not gonna hold back. If that school REQUIRED you to wear a mask during filming vs threatening your job then I understand. But if you and your few helpers wore those masks by free will, such as promoting mask wearing, then I think you’re a sissy. Again, IF I’m wrong, IF your job FORCED you to, then I apologize in advance. But it was a good video 👍
