African Cichlids | Mbuna Stripping | Demasoni & Yellow Labs | Water Change | Breeding Colony
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- African Cichlids | Mbuna Stripping | Demasoni & Yellow Labs | Water Change | Breeding Colony
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Current Stock List:
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Pseudotropheus Pombo Rocks - Demasoni
Labidochromis Caeruleus - Yellow Lab
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Filtration:
SunSun HW-304B
Aqueon Quietflow 55/75 Aquarium Power Filter
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Media:
Biological Media
Generic Filter Floss
Foam Pad
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Lighting System:
Built in LED Lighting
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Aquascape & Rockscape:
Crushed Coral
River Rock
Lava Rock
Aquarium Rock
Black Painted Background
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Demasoni and yellow lab combo is my favorite. Along with a really deep blue background and holy rock.
My fav mbuna combo as well
I know this vid is 3 years old, but your tank looks almost identical to my 55. I'm running two Penguin 200's on it with the Aqueon LED hoods. I almost got the Marineland hoods like you have, but liked the ability to add a second light with the Aqueon hoods. Tank looks great!
Good healthy looking tank. 👍🏻
Thanks. I hope you can check out some of my current videos as well. Thanks.
Tank looks good, cool video, def gonna try this with our mbunas
Go for it!
Great job with everything awesome tank man 👌🏽
I appreciate it!
beautiful color combo on your rocks
Thank you Mario
Cool vid, man that's a full time job when u start stripping eggs/fry, setting up the tumbler, water change, rescape, then u put on ur lab coat & get ur water conditioners right...& that was just 1 tank!!!
+T-Man 428 -- HAHAHA, Love the Lab coat comment! thanks for watching.
Wow amazing. Too cute
Thanks for watching
Beautiful video friend thanks for sharing love you nice 😊
Thanks for visiting
Dude this is awesome!! Congratz ;)
Thanks!
Nice looking tank.
Thanks
How i wish you're living nextdoor! Im having a bad week, loss 4 mbunas already. Nice vid btw! Happy holidays!
Thanks man. Have a good one
Dude! Cool video man!
Thanks!
great video I almost think I can do it myself you made it look so easy great job,. excellent video. Peace
Thanks Ray.
Wow!! Keep up the great work buddy:)
Thanks Leo
I think that sand for there litle lips would help with the overall look and they can play dig also some slate rocks skinny long rocks .yiu may get more fish more space
Thanks for sharing mark. I have since moved in from this tank. But I agree I like sand better. That’s is what’s in my other tanks. I have used sand off and on. That’s for stopping by
Wuaaau great job 👍
Thanks
well done you made the striping look easy 👍
spot on
+electric water -- Thank you sir!
Apart from just admiring the set up breeding fish would have to be the best fun you can have in this amazing hobby!
Absolutely
Nice setup👍👍👍👍
Thanks!
Nice!
Thanks!
Ok, thank you
No problem
Beautiful tank bro
Thanks!
wow, that is so awesome,, nice job ~♡~
BB's bb's - thanks
Amazing
Thanks
Hey, I am here fromthe Holly Abrajan channel, I think your videos are really interesting and you have really nice content, I will surely follow you around, just subbed you
Awesome video👍
Thank you!
Looking beautiful
Thanks
5yrs ago and now theres a lot of modern aquascape and filters. i hope u show your new setup for your cichies
I plan to recreate this tank in the future.
Nice tank
+TJ Cleary thanks
superb :)
Thank you.
slick vid friend!
+Don Poisson -- thanks sir!
great
Thanks
Id be super happy with that batch too they look amazing indeed good job I enjoyed watching you strip 😂😂😂😂 the little yellow labs are so cute indeed 👏👏👏👏👏
+PsychedelicBabe -- LOL, thanks. Have you found any yellow labs in the UK yet?
+inventoryking I found one guy but he hasn't replied to any of my messages yet 😱😱 they were really cheap too so I'm gonna go message him again now hopefully he gets back to me soon ...
Hopefully they respond!
gorgeous
Thank you
u 2 ;)
great video. subbed.
MasterAquatics thanks!
Which medicine you use in water kindly tell me please.....
nice tank budd
Thanks dude!
so cute babies
yes they are
Hermoso!!!!
thanks for watching
awesome video
Thanks Brian
WELCOME MATE!@@inventoryking
How many Mbunas are there in there
I think it was around 25 or so
I use the same mix of fish in a lot of tanks, some red zebras make it pop too
That’s awesome!
Congrats on the Demasoni fry. When I tried they just wanted to make war not love so had to get rid of them, that was on a 1 male to 7 female ratio in a 4 foot tank.
I might try on a 1-9 or 1-10 ratio in a bigger tank at a later date.
Albert Ramsay thanks! Yeah the more rocks I had the better for that tank.
The key to my low aggression tank wuz i got em all wen they were young. I had like 15 cichlids and never had 1 fight.
forgot to say this but the fry is looking totally amazing!
Thank you!
This is so cool I hope I have Fry one day
Thanks for watching.
yea of course! : )
Are you using tap water, carbon filtered tap water or RO water? Seems like you added a lot of different thing as if your water is stripped by RO.
Tap treated with prime.
New sub 😀
Awesome!! Thank you
I have the same tank, how did you get the lights to stay in when you get lift up the lid?
Not sure they just stayed.
nice mix of EYL and DEM s... love those colors... what pellets do you feed them? thanks in advance
It was Northfin
Where do you get the large rocks from? I am in South Central Pennsylvania, I have been looking for some like you have in your tank.
Dennis, those rocks came with the tank. What I like to use now is Basalt Wall Rock
Great video ! Just stripped my mbuna ! Got about 26 fry. Great channel! Just got my first 100k views on a recent cichlid vid I posted but I’m trying to grow my channel larger . Any tips you could give me ? Thanks again. Great video !
Nice video!
Thanks
I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos!
Awesome! I have tons of videos out after this one!
What do you use to store the fish food? When you went and fed them, you here a ring of some sort?
Usually just the container that comes with the food.
Subbed..
Thanks
How do you know there are fry in the mouth of cichlids?
The females will have a bulge under their chin, and they don’t eat. Both have to be present
Awesome Video Sir will be starting a peacock cichlid tank what Rocks you recommend?
Thanks Ruden. I like Basalt Wall Rock. I use that in my tanks now.
First!!!!
+Super Cichlids - ;-)
What did u paint your back ground with?? It looks shinny. Mine looks dull. Thx
Jesse that one I bought Black. You can use amzn.to/2s8LuKG
I used it for my saltwater tank. On the outside of course.
great looking tank
how do u clean the substrate with all the rocks there?
Thanks. I just siphon the gravel.
Hello thats a nice set up....
had a query regarding mbunas.Since you are an expert...
What are the reasons for sunken belly in mbunas....??they are eating but sunken belly not going...
What can be done?? I feed my fish twice a day.....dont want to over feed and encounter issues...
Would be great if you could advice...
David, thanks. It is likely from an internal parasite in their gut. You can soak food in metroplex and focus with some Garlic and feed it to them. That will introduce the metro to their gut. It may of may not help. This is what I would do.
What do you think about using a sand in the tanks? Probably it would be more interesting.
I do have sand in almost all my tanks! I love it. Have you checked out my other fish videos?
how did you get that water so clear? it looks crystal. Also what was that concoction you did with the Prime?
Lots of filtration.
Prime, Aquarium salt, stress coat, buffer
Looking good, how many do you have in there total? I just started a 55g with 20 demasoni and 10 yellow lab that are very small. Wondering what my target should be when they're grown.
Nice! They are fun to have. I have 13 Demasoni and 9 yellow labs.
Hey ,,,i love your scaping coz I've also rocky structure dats y i keep mbuna like kenyi and haps peacock aluncara keep together successfully..first i want to tell u i ve 5 kenyis but 2 kenyis showing dominance fom long time but co f rocky structure dey couldn't harm any 1 but i want ask u now days they occupied bottom area as wel as they do not allow to any 1 to surface area days y aggression raise nowdays Ha 1 more thing i ve frys of 3 batches in same tank and wonderfully dey ve to survive very healthy with adults some frys r 1 month,some r 15 days & 1 more 10 days i keep successfully them in same tank even in my tank some predator fish like adult livingstony and venustus nireria but all dey okkay..plz tell me how i keep busy my mbuna kenyis to bottom as like ur fish.... coz when they busy in bottom my otger open hhood haps and peacock will live HAPPY dey r happy bt not now plz tell me how i keep busy my mbunas to bottom .What kind of hardscape should I make...plz tell me...i hope I'll get some magical tipppp
Wonderful videos how big re they now ( the fry)? and re Demasoni hard to handle? cause for me, it is
I since sold his group, but they worked good for me, because I had lots of rocks
Hey bro nice tank , I have a question do the Demasoni & Yellow Labs get along ? or there is a lot of aggression?
Thanks dude! There was some like normal, but not really towards each other. It was mainly with themselves. I got pretty luck with this tank, not being that bad. There were some rough ones, but like I said for the most part not bad. Thanks for watching.
Nice bro,,, breeding colony success yah...
Thank you
how thick is ur tank glass
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what are those mixes that you used to put in the tank? conditioners and bacteria zyme?
I was doing fluval bacteria, epsom salt, buffer, cichlid salt. I have since stopped
Great video… How much northfin do you feed that quantity of fish? 1 mm or 2 mm pallet size? Thanks in advance
Thanks. I think these were 1mm. No set amount.
How Do You Keep Them From Cross Breeding I So Need Some Of Your Advice
Thaxton's Aquaticz - I had luck because these two fish are completely different. It's best to keep them separate. Hope this helped.
What kind of lights you have? Btw the tank looks great
Thanks David. Nothing special the lights that came with the tanks. Package deal
WTHeck? I never seen that before, that's how you get the fish out of them?
Yes sir! thats one way
a buddy was making some room in his tank and threw me a few random peacocks/haps/and apperently 1 demasoni... am I doomed? should I try and get him out asap? so far I haven't noticed any real agression towards his tank mates
+Anthony's Marine and Malawi -- I would just keep an eye on him. Since I have a lot in my tank, the aggression isn't that bad.
So they laid eggs and when they hatched, they swallowed them to protect them? And u made them barf em out? Orrr am i totally wrong here. Also. I have an oscar and jack dempsey cichlid can i add yellow lab to their tank? They are still juveniles. Or should i refrain
I wouldnt add a yellow lab with those fish. African Cichlids are mouth brooders. So they breed and take up the eggs in the mouth to protect them from predators. The eggs then develop in the mothers mouth and when they are ready she will spit them out.
@@inventoryking wow thats amazing!
Really Nice ..... Any advice on where to get similar rocks ???
Thanks. Sadly no, I apologize. I bought this tank with those rocks. I added a few safe river rocks, but the others came with it.
i went to a landscape store big selection and very cheap
what are all the products that you use for a water change, if you don't mind? I saw prime, that was all I could make out.
+Eric K nevermind, found your RobertLee cichlids water change video. May I ask how much epsom salt you use for each water change?
+Eric K glad you found the video. The ratio is 1 cup for every 50 gallons. So you just need to do the math according to your water change
What are the stones called and where did you get them from? Great vid btw
Most of the stones came with the tank, so I am not sure. The rock ones are river rock that I got at my local landscaping yard. Thank you for watching Ben.
Is that sand at the bottom or pebbles and what color?
It’s gravel. Sorta a sand looking color
Is his tank still up and running? Do you recommend this demasoni/yellow lab combo for compatibility and aggression? Any tips for setting up a tank like this? What was all the stuff you added to the water, looked like salt etc?
I no longer have this tank. The Demasoni and the Yellow labs were ok in my tank. Get lots of rocks. Epsom salt, buffer, Cichlid salt etc
What was the bag of powder you used ? And how much for a 55 gal ?
Hi Andy, It was epsom salt. I haven't used it is a long time, I am not recalling.
What is that tube called where u put the babies?
It's called an Egg Tumbler
Not many people showing this. Can you tell us exactly how to do this without harming the fish?
Tell me your chem combo... prime... etc etc...
In my current tanks I use purigen and chemipure elite.
How did you get the little fry with the egg sacs into the tumbler? Just curious...
Kordova thanks for watching. I used a turkey Baster
inventoryking cool, thanks for the quick reply I've got two batches of Johannii and Auratus fry coming very soon so I'll probably let them spit in a different tank, but just in case i strip my fish one day I'll keep that in mind! Thanks :)
Kordova no problem! Glad to help and good luck
Ik this is an old video but how many gallons is the fry tank and your main tank?
Main is 55 gallons. The fry was 20
@@inventoryking hey umm i have another question my yellow lab gave birth already and some fry have like black stripes going down their body is that normal or maybe they are hybrids?
I've had mbuna for about a year now and I never knew you can massage the females to get the baby's out. I usually just separate her and let her release them on her own.
Hey Tony, over the years I do it differently now. I use a toothpick to help her mouth open and don’t massage.
someone please explain to me whats going on at 1:15
I am removing the fry from the mother so they can grow out.
Is it possible for cichlids to live with their fry?
I would say no, at the beginning yes, but after no. And I mean yes with the mom. After a little they will eat them.
how many gallons is the rockscape tank
55 gallon tank
Which type of light are you usint
It is just the standard light that came with the tank.
What was all that baking soda and other chemicals about
Additives
How did u know the were holding??
You can tell by the way they look like they are chewing on stuff even though you didn't feed.
How long were they holding before you stripped them ?
I think it was 5-10 days
So demonsi are good tank mates for yellow labs? Do you ever get cross breeding ?
I didn’t have that issue
Awesome ive been looking for something that would go with my yellow lab colony thanks ik
what was the ingredients you used for that tank change.
I used Epsom Salt, Seachem Prime, Malawi Buffer, Cichlid Lake Salt, Fluval Bacteria
@@inventoryking does it work?? I mean did you find any casualty while using those products or were they good!!?
when u grabbed the fish and babies came out of its mouth i was like WTF
Lol! Yeah it’s crazy
But how you know the fish is pregnancy, and how you know the baby fishes in the mouth?
Witch light u used .? Pls share purchase link
It was the generic light that came with the aquarium