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so a slight change of plan, i took the chance of being off work today and ordered my stock from tony's african cichlids yesterday, knowing my partner would be at home to take delivery if i was at work. i also did a large water change, around 75%, and rehomed my bristlenose that's been in a qt tank ...

Cycle finished earlier this week, so that's a relief. Now I'm just waiting on my fish, but that's been delayed due to work commitments - no days off means no delivery. Looks like I'll be maintenance feeding for a week or so, which isn't ideal. In terms of the fish, I think I'll be getting them from ...

Managed to get a couple of the nighttime blue pics

Afternoon was spent sourcing some ali u bar, which I managed to get my hands on, to build a simple sliding light rack. Took just over an hour from start to finish, cutting it to length and building the thing.

The two main lights are made up of an iquatics marine white t5 tube and an arcadia ...

Next I sorted the scape, got a couple of egg crate pieces from a mate which was a nice bonus, and it fitted in the tank nice.

Filled the holes with coflake sand up to the top of the egg crate, then added the rock scape. Sorry for the rubbish pics, will get some proper ones up soon.

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Hi everyone,

I've decided to keep a record of my new tank setup as it comes together. This is my first foray into a mbuna tank, but I've been keeping fish for a while now, so I'm expecting a learning curve.

My tank's a custom ND aquatics model, 46 x 18 x 22, with black silicone and an Optiwhite ...