Review help with stock list for 220 Gallon aquarium

I did not like the appearance of the fish

Ugly as in mean or didn't like the appearance?

Ah things are so subjective the lawsi I had were so ugly.

Ok if you want it for beauty my recommendation is to start with six to eight young fish of each species and keep two males from each and sell or get rid of the others.

If a fish has other fish of its own species to be dominant over when young they tend to have the best colors.

When I had my show tank two males of each always worked out the best.

Yellow labs really add color and are not too aggressive but cant be bullied.

Taiwan reef are beautiful fish, lemon jakes, ngara, undo reefs, benga peacocks, zrocks are all great fish

The previous recommendations are a good idea. An awesome hearty mbuna with extremely low aggression that is my favorite is Gephyrochromis lawsi. I know Datz Cichlids has them locally. The males get a real deep royal blue with a gold crest from the head to the dorsal.

One of the few mbuna species that I have kept where multiple males would always be fully colored up and never see any aggression. They wouldn't be an issue with the haps/aulonocara aggression wise.

First of all having one male is not a good idea - you will get more spawning and better colors for everyone if there is at least two males for each species. Generally then it appears that a male is alway dominant over another male.

Second what is your goal? Color, variety, community, etc are you starting with young fish and growing them up.

Is your goal to breed any of the fish -

How deep are your pockets? Not trying to be rude but obtaining some fish that I could recommend could be costly.

If you start with young fish and grow up eight fish of each species you will end up with much prettier fish





Zrocks and Red Empress tend to be a little on the tougher side (the Aulonocara Yellow Jakes are really tough but beautiful).

I would recommend one of the Copidochromis with black bottoms and blue tops (there are about five species / location variants like that). Copidochromis mloto red line Nsisi, Copidochromis trewavassae Lupingu,Copidochromis trewavassae Likoma, Copidochromis trewavassae Misisi, etc. They tend to be tougher and also the fry are worth something.

Note most of the time Red Empress which are beautiful fish you cant give the fry away.

Placidochromis johnstoni solo have stripes and are pretty -

The two sets of peacocks could be a problem especially as the ruby reds are line bred, the females seem ready to cross breed quickly.

Also some of the haps are similar in color

I would ad some yellow labs for color and they mix well with other fish. Just get a good strain where the males get the nice black on their pectoral fins.