I had a bunch of extra fish stuff lying around, to the point where I had a complete tank. I have never done a african cichlid tank...so I decided to set one up. It finally cycled out and cleared up, and here's what I came up with:





So far all I've got is a pair of brichardi and some unidentified blue african. I had a yellow lap too, but the brichardi teamed up and took him out. The brichardi seem to get along with the other one, though. Eventually I plan to keep this a species only tank with a small colony of brichardi, but they are somewhat hard to find around here so I needed something else to get the bio load up and get the tank going.