This reminds me of waiting for the hillstream tank to get set up, scaped, and finally stocked. Can't wait to see these fish mature and take on their adult colors. A-N-T-I-C-I-P-A-T-I-ON

I like starting with young fish and watching them mature, especially with a fish that has a lot of personality. It's like watching your kids enter kindergarten and finally go to the prom.

It would be very handy if you put the names of the fish in the description. It helps allot if people want to find out more about a specific fish. And an added bonus is that people who are searching for that fish can find your video's.

I started with about 7-8 Cyprichromis leptosoma and they started breeding like crazy after about six to eight months. Babies are huge and males are awesome!

awesome setup. i never wanted to keep tangs.... less color, generally shy fish, slooow growing (compared to malawi)... but once i kept calvus and fronts everything changed... there is something about tangs thats fascinating. ...personality maybe... dunno exactly what... but i am hooked now.

I'm sure you're well aware of this, but I just want to impress upon you again as to how much of an important role you are in so many animals' lives. You alone are the sole reason they have a good or bad quality of life, and I respect all animal keepers who strive for the goal of creating perfect paradises for their pets.

Beautiful species! Thanks for sharing an update on your African cichlids.

just started to watch your videos mainly because i am recovering from surgery. I very much enjoy them. my bday is also coming up and you inspired me to do a nice Tanganyikan tank. thanks.

Happy birthday Rachel love the channel keep up the good work

Awesome tank with supercool Cichlids! Many thanks for sharing Rachel 🤗

Really enjoying your videos lately, Rachel, especially the greenhouse and plant videos. You're looking great and seem to be feeling better, I hope that's true. I know from FB that your family had another setback with the truck wreck but your perseverance is inspiring. No matter what life throws your way you plow through it, catch all the important pieces, and keep moving forward.

That tank is coming together and aging so nicely. Thanks for the update!

Soooo love this giant stone in the aquarium 😍 for sure, love the whole design and the fish selection, but this stone looks stunning here 😁

Really beautiful tank love the large rocks and how it offers a varied look in a hardscape.

Your Birthday Tank is GORGEOUS!! It's totally different than the planted tanks that I am usually drawn to but you have a way to make every just stunning!! Ca-ute fish to boot!! 😍

I’d like to see you do a video about Julidochromis a bunch. They are the next fish I plan to add to my fish room and I am in the process of setting up a tank just for them so that would be great

Nice birthday fish Rachel 😙😙😙

Cool looking can't wait to see how it turns out

Grumpy face Grumpy face Grumpy face oh how we love you Grumpy Grumpy face fishes your are so darn cute with your little grumpy faces! Sorry was singing the little song my head made up while watching them lol. They are beautiful and I can’t wait to watch them grow up.

They are growing well and settling in beautifully. What do you think? More of the smaller african cichlids in the future? Fan mail can be sent to: PO box 146 Manchester PA 17345 Buy me a coffee: msjinkzd.com/about_msjinkzd/support-our-site/ Instagram @msjinkzd Website and stocklist: msjinkzd.com/stocklist/ Facebook: facebook.com/msjinkzd/

Great looking tank, I can't wait to see them in full color.

Wonderful job. You've influenced me to go back to African fish.

I cant wait for your demo in Herndon, VA! We live close to there and have already made plans to go to CatfishCon! Thank you for what you do and for coming to my area for a chance to learn from you in person!

B'day tank coming along a treat!

Such a cool tank👍👍👍

One of my fry damaged his tail and it looked exactly like the damage on your fish - I was really worried that he'd damaged the rays and it wouldn't grow back properly. As always your advice was spot on. Clean water is the best medicine. Daily water changes and he's as good as new! I was amazed how quickly it repaired.

These are something I want to get in the future, I can't ever remember seeing any available in shops though!

i had them all and they are really nice =) best wishes from Norway and keep up the good work =) sending u a big hearth from Norway

You have really sparked my interest in tangajikan tanks and I can not thank you enough for that! I‘m considering a tangajika community setup as a future projekt, so informationen on other fish like Julis or possibly Neolamprologus brichardi oder N. helianthus would be really appreciated :)

The second tank was really beautiful.

Looking forward to seeing them mature 😊

I am really looking forward to watching the development of your birthday tank over the next six months or so, and the first batch of fry will be cause for a glass of celebratory champagne :)

Awesome. I used to have Lamprologus meleagris; meanest fish I ever had, including Piranha.

i dont even have fish but love yours!

Love the Cichlid videos and I'm looking forward to any new species spotlights with them - and any fish in general! I do have a few Cichlids but not enough dedicated tanks to get more of them - and what I got are suitable only to Dwarf Cichlids. I caved in and bought a few German blue rams of which two formed a pair and have already done a few practice spawns. Unfortunately no such luck with my Agassiziis Apistos as the male and female show no interest in each other. I haven't yet dared to venture into African rift lakes territory because water is extremely soft where I live (my tap has around ~67 ppm dissolved solids in total, and GH is only about 3dh). On an unrelated note. You don't happen to have any Badis Badis? I ended up getting a few of them and I'd love to see a species spotlight about them. I heard that they are shy fish but mine don't seem to be shy at all.

i love your videos so much !!!!!!!

Thanks for the nerite snail stocking tip :)

Yes, please do a video on julies! I added some juvenile dickfeldi to my multies tank, but I think they were simply stressed to death by the multies😔 Now, I have just ordered a large group (20+) of nigripinnis from a fellow hobbyist - super excited to get them in this Friday 😃

Nice!

Grouchy Fishkeepers for Grumpy Faces!!!! Rah! Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! WOOT!! Grumpy!!! (That means I am looking forward to all updates about this tank)

Yes, please spotlight additional species...

Hey rachel, can you make a video and talk about how to enhance fish colour... food, water parameter, temperature etc. Thanks a lot! 😀

Greetings from Czech rep. (central Europe) Rachel, first I would like to thank you for high quality content which is so rare these days. Next I want to ask if any of callochromis sp. ever caught your eye? Little fish with huge personality. Next fish is bigger but also nice Tanganyikan beaty Cythopharynx. Best regards Jan

Wld love to have a tank with shelly's, para's, and comp's...maybe someday!

😍

Like i said on a previous video i am planning on making pretty much the same type of tank setup with a colony of shellies , I'm am curious tho as to how you maintain the tank with so much stuff in the tank ie the sheer amount of shells and rocks etc , how do you handle the debris that going to collect in and around the shells knowing that any one of the shell could contain fish and or fry , i know this is a pretty garbled question but i hope you get the question im trying to ask haha

Nice! More,less aggressive, Tanganuikans welcome.

Yea nice fish love the big guys tho

nice Job Rachel, could these be kept with odessa barbs, panda barbs, and kribs? I like your tank with those three and think if compatible these sarine cichlids would add to the colors really nicely if compatible with each other.

L💞VE them!

Any chance of an update on this tank? I'm new to the channel but cant find any more recent ones :(

Happy Birthday. I have been following you for a while. I live in Pa and am looking for Apistogramma. Do you sell them or do you know a good place to get them. Thanks. Much appreciated.

Do you do any other maintenance to keep the shells clean? Or just nerite snails?

What are those food discs you are feeding called? I want to get some!

I want to make a small Shelly only tank...what would be the best size tank for them...I have tanks ranging from 10g to 150g

Which ciclid has largest eye to body ratio

Will those baby sardines be available for purchase, once you're up and running again?

Can I keep lamprologus brevis (6 of them) in a 29 with 6 julidochromis dickfeldi? I was thinking having rocks and shells with aragonite as substrate, and if I can what happens if there’s more males than females or vice versa? Do they just go off on their own and live in their own shells or do they fight

can Mbuna cichlids mix with Tanganyikan?

Did I spy some ity bitty fry at 8:45

Apistogramma please..

Had 8 of these. Every once in a while you would see the males dancing for the females. I even caught the mating dance once. The female spits the eggs and catches it after the male fertilizes it. Then before I knew it I could literally see eyes staring out the bottom of the females jaw weeks later.

Please don't take offense, and I have to say I love you, but..... I would find it very helpful if you would give their common name as well as their proper name Thanks very much

hello

why are you reading a script?