Mbuna or Peacocks?

[jmessineo1]

So I just bought a 75 gallon, and I can't decide if I want to move the peacocks and sell smaller haps and have a 6' predator hap tank and 4' peacock. Or keep the 6 foot all male mixed and have the 4' be a bio type Mbundu with 3-4 species. Would love to get your opinions!

So predator and peacock or male hap and peacock and Mbuna?

 

[jonclark96]

I'd set up the mbuna tank.

 

[Carolineep]

Why not both?

 

[xny89]

I've had a 55 gallon mbuna tank for several years now, inhabited mostly with the "calmer" mbuna such as yellow labs, rusties and zebroids. I've since added a single male peacock and young calvus with no problems whats-so-ever. My tank has tons of rock hidding places, so much so, that when the fish get spooked, it looks like there are no fish in the tank! So, you can mix, but be wary of inhabitants. Also, the rusties, labs and zebroids are constantly making babies. The large males occassionally do the circle lip lock and chase each other around dance, but that's just among them.

 

[jmessineo1]

Why not both?

I'd love to do both, thats what I'd like to do in the future, but not able to at the moment

 

[Jennylou83]

I've had a 55 gallon mbuna tank for several years now, inhabited mostly with the "calmer" mbuna such as yellow labs, rusties and zebroids. I've since added a single male peacock and young calvus with no problems whats-so-ever. My tank has tons of rock hidding places, so much so, that when the fish get spooked, it looks like there are no fish in the tank! So, you can mix, but be wary of inhabitants. Also, the rusties, labs and zebroids are constantly making babies. The large males occassionally do the circle lip lock and chase each other around dance, but that's just among them.

My husband and I have a 55 gallon that we recently converted to a Mbuna tank. We are trying to decide what we want to add next. We are trying to learn what if any peacock or haps we can intergrate in with not much issue. Any suggestions? This is what is currently in our tank;

Blue maingno
OB Red zebra
Yellow lab
Pombo rocks
Yellow tail acei
Rusty

Thank you for your help!

 

[xny89]

lots of hiding places and fish that don't get bigger than 5". I eventually moved yellow tail acei to a friends 220 because they were just a little too large for the 55.

 

[Wblaze]

Personally I would always go for a mbuna tank over anything else