my 75gal set up

figured i would post some pics. it has sence be rearanged and moved.

yea i had it in front of a window (really liked the natural light that came thru, and no i dident really have a bad problem with alge, but it has sence then been moved)


the crab i had. lasted about 3 months before the jack dempsy finally ate him














here is a video the day i got the tank and got it set up (came with the jack dempsy and gar (gar had to go tho, could get any african cichlid with him in there)
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and here is one of the jack dempsy getting ready for some feeders.
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hopfully once i get another tank for the jack dempsy and my oscar ill get some more pics and the 75gal will be a dedicated african cichlid tank.

i might get another gar once i get the bigger tank

 

can anybody tell if the yellow bumble bee (i guess thats what it is) is a male? from what ive heard the more egg spots on the back fin the more likley it is to be a male and its got about 4 of them.

my darker african (has about 4 egg spots on his back fin also) like to do his mating dance around the yellow one.

do they not know the diffrence between the two??

 

dont know what a fiddler crab is, but it had one big claw and one little one if that helps.

he was a pretty cool crab for a while, then i moved things around and messed up his hiding places and the jack dempsy got him oneday. found his claw laying on the bottom.

 

he was in the tank for about 4 months maybe. dont know how long they can last like that. i did have it arranged where he could climb to the top and get out of water there at the end tho if thats what you mean. he really seamed to like that alot.

i liked him tho because of those pesky corners behind plants that was hard to get to and clean he would take care of it. maybe once i get the jack and oscar there own tank ill get another one or maybe a few. cool little fellows.

 

he always looked funny running around the tank waving his big claw around

 

dang im so confussed then. i did some searching around last night and they all share the same markings pretty much as the kenyi, and thats what i thought they were. but after more looking its deff a bumble bee.

im still lost on to what im darker one is then. i wanna say hes a kenyi because he shares the same kind of striping as the smaller kenyi (after looking at more pics it looks just like a juvenile kenyi) and ive heard the males turn a darker color while the females turn a yellow color (thats why i though the bumble bee was a female kenyi)

ill get more pics up to help further explain.

im just curious as to why the dark colored one does the matting dance (im almost positive its male) to the bumble bee if it is in fact male.

 

man i gotta get my camera fixed, these are the best i could get with our crummy camera.

okay this guy is the dominate one, he does all the cave digging, mating dance, kinda keeps controll over the tank (kenyi i think)


that one likes to chase this one around doing its matting dance for this one (bumble bee)


then the juvenile kenyi i think


then the electric yellow (the scardy cat of them all, i think its male from what ive read, said the males have black lines thru there eyes which it does)



best pictures i could get with this camera :/

 

awesome. i gotta start looking for some females then.

im a tad confused tho, females are purple to blue color, well my male is that color alot (but does have that yellow hint and can change to a very light yellow some times)

is the female not gonna have that yellow tint to it???


and thanks i really like that fish alot (the male kenyi) gotta get him a female and mate hopefully.

there is a BEAUTIFUL fish at the LPS. dark vibrent blue but im not quite sure what it is, i know its not a kenyi. im gonna have that sucker one day tho.

 

dempsy is getting another tank(along with the oscar i have thats stashed in a 10 gal for now) in the process of that now. (100+ gal for them)

the thing im confussed about is, you said the dark kenyi is male (which i think it is too) but he is that dark color that you say females are. thats where i get confused. BUT he does have that yellow tint to him. if the females dont really have that then okay i understand. i was just a little confussed on that.

 

yea thats about what ive found.

the little guy came that color from the LPS but he was the smallest in the tank. maybe thats why, and maybe the jack dempy is keeping him from turning his natural colors. other than the jack dempsy he is the king of the tank. (not that they dont get along tho, the jack dempsy is pretty chill, the oscar on the other hand tho...... he had to come out)

still trying to decide wither i want to build a larger tank (thinking about the plywood route) or just keep searching for deals. would like to build it to my deminstions.

anyways yea the 75gal is gonna be a dedicated cichlid tank.