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Ive decided to convert my 65G South American Tank to an African one. I really like Yellow Labs and would like to take a shot at breeding them, how many could i put in the 65 G aquarium and could i keep any other sapecies with them. Please give me any good ideas for a Malawi combination including these fish.

If you'd like to breed them stick with only them and get a good number of them...(8-12)

So good tank mates for them might be
Ps. Acei, Ps. Socolofi, Ps. Saulosi. there's a few more say popular ones as far as Mbuna go.

You could also have say 6 yellows, and a trio of Aulonocara (peacocks).

Or 6 yellows and a trio of one of the smaller, and more docile Haplochromies...

Start with the Yellows, do some research, see what grabs your eye and let us know.
We can help with suggestions, and compatibility, etc. but you should pick the fish there going to be in your tank

Im not sure if i want to attempt to breed the yellows or just have a community cichlid tank. How many fish would be appropriate for a tank this size if i chose all breeds similar in size to the yellows. I visited my LFS today and they have a very good selection of Africans for very good prices. I really like the Yellow Labs and the Electric Blue Johannii. If i had these two types what other species would compliment them well?

i keep 7 yellows in my tank with

4 ob peacocks
3 electric blues
4 protomelas similis
4 venestus
1 greshaki
2 chinamans catfish
3 clown loach

if you were looking for a purely african tank u would probably exclude the cats and clowns

if your looking to breed them, put them by them selfs otherwise you will end up with worthless hybrids, especialy peacocks as they are prolific cross breaders.

good luck and keep us posted.

So electric yellows are a certain.
some [link=Ps Saulosi]http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1" style="COLOR: #FFFF00[/link] would be nice. They're great little fish.
Also some [link="Maingano"]http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=756" style="COLOR: #FFFF00[/link] are very nice.
These are all fish I currently have in my 115g and they're all great.

This will make a nice mbuna setup. Just make sure there are plenty of rocks as mbuna love hiding in and around the rocks.
In a 65g you can probably fit 5-6 of each.


Or as said above you can add the electric yellows with a group of peacocks. This will also be a cool setup.

A good site to check out is [link=http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/index.php]http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/index.php" style="COLOR: #FFFF00[/link] Here you can look at lots of profiles and see which fish you like.

Well I hope this is helpful.

what would be your purpose for breeding? professionally or just to see if you can? i ask because if you are serious about breeding them, you should really do some big research before you jump into it. first, you will find out that getting your hands on some good breeding stock will break your wallet and you really dont want to breed petco yellow labs. they are so overbred already, you wouldnt be doing anybody a favor there. find some good wild or f1 labs. you will probably have to order them online. you are going to need an extra tank to raise the fry in. you will have multiple batches of fry at the same time, so you may need another tank to grow up the fresh released fry until they are big enough to put into your main growout tank.
if you just want to breed them to see if you can, go for it. i guarantee you they will breed. for fun, you might want to get three. get one male and two females and see how long it takes for your tank to be overun with them. of course you will have to protect the fry from the parents because they will eat them. good luck. let us know what you wind up doing.

If i was going to breed it was only going to be for the experience and to see if i could do it. I had no intentions of making any money off of it. Just thought it would be interesting and a good learning opportunity, but ive decided I would rather have a nice community cichlid tank. I was thinking about 5 yellows, 3 Johannii, and maybe 5 Afras of some type. Is this too much or is there room for more?