Stocking Questions for new tank

[DARKPHREAK]

My wonderful girlfriend who said we couldnt get another tank until we moved bought me a 72g Oceanic Bowfront. We will be keeping our stock of 5 Pseudotropheus demansoni and 2 Labidochromis caeruleus in there and whatever fry they produce. I've moved all the rock and some of the crushed coral to the new tank and a 404 thats been on my planted tank. From what I understand I shouldnt have a cycle because Im using the older 404 but I will watch the water params just to make sure.

Guess my question is what would be a safe stocking number for this tank? I dont want to over do it and it will take time for the fry to grow-out but from what I've been reading the more demansoni the better, mine run and hide now due to understocking. Ill have 7 demansoni fry to add plus how many a holding demansoni spits out and whatever the lab spits out, so another maybe 15 fry will move over to the main tank in the next few months.

Any suggestions?

[artw]

well you can probably double the amount of adult fish you have in there now.

[ambushman2j]

Probly even triple it

[AQUAPHREAK]

As the wonderful girlfriend.  Number wise, how many cichlids can we have in the 72 bow Oceanic??? Twenty?  Thirty?  Forty???  

Thank you,

Marie

[ambushman2j]

between 20-30 I would say would be a good number depending on size.. larger maybe a little less..15-20, smaller maybe even more..35-40.. 1" probly over 50

[artw]

it all depends on the maximum size the adults will reach.

[artw]

by the way welcome to the board Wonderful girlfriend.

[ambushman2j]

well, assuming you wanted to keep all the fish you have, you can sell some off as they grow..like I did with my salousi adults

[artw]

I have lots of juvenile cichlids that will go well in your tank PHREAKS.

[AQUAPHREAK]

What type of Cichlid would you add with our demansoni and yellow labs?? I'm always interested in new types of fish, but I want to make sure they are a good match... or if James and I agree to have them... do you have the name so we can do research on them???

Thanks,

Marie

[ambushman2j]

your safest bet for a good combination, you need to look at a few things, a) make sure they are all rock dwellers, b) try not to get multiple sub-species ie) pseudotropheus, labiotropheus c) try not to get anything which looks similar  breaking any of these rules doesn't mean you're fish will kill each other, but it's the safest bet that they won't