Shell Dweller Tank

[alasse]

The Multi tank, rescaped yesterday

[parker002]

My next tank is going to be shellies....

I want to do Cichlids so bad. You've just made me want to do it more!

[angelminx]

Alasse,  I love your tanks; there are sooo many tanks I would like to do (if only I was allowed)--and you inspire me to want even more! As it is, I'm always "building/designing" dream tanks on paper.

Along with everything else I'm doing right now (which includes going through my magazines), I'm going through my books and planning (and studying info for) a couple of different African Cichlid tanks! I would like to have more books with Lake T Cichlid info (actually all African cichlids), because I only really have info on a couple of the more common species at the moment [see below]. One of the things I'm currently doing, is going thru my African Cichlid info and making a general index of species so I can (for example) look up Labeotropheus, and then the particular species (I'm interested in both), and find out which pages, in which books, I'll find species info and photos--so I don't have to keep looking thru all my books for specific info every time I want to check something out.  Some of the photos do not have ID with them, for example: on the front cover of my book "The Proper Care of Malawi Cichlids" is a beautiful "Haplochromine", which I would love to have.  After going through my African Cichlid books (and a few general species info books), and an exhaustive comparison of photos in my book "Ad Koning's Book of Cichlids and all the Other Fishes of Lake Malawi (love the book, but it weights a ton--it's ~10"x14"x1 1/2" ; don't have the Lake T volume) it most closely resembles a male Proteomelas taeniolatus, from Namalenje Island; so I've made a note under Protomelas that P. taeniolatus is also found on the cover of "The Proper Care of Malawi Cichlids".  There are a few IDs I've had to guess at--on the back of the same book is a photo that is probably a Pseudotropheus species, but since so many of them are so similar, I've narrowed it down to the most likely species being a possible variant of either elongatus, miniatus, zebra, or saulosi!

[*] One of the Lake T species I like is Telmatochromis bifrenatus--I only have a photo of it in one book, and a photo and brief info on it in another one.  The dreaming continues....

Angelminx