Room spec.

Owner:
Rafal Izdebski and Jason Vance of Vancouver, B.C., Canada

E-mail:
raf@malawimayhem.com
jason@malawimayhem.com

Web:
www.malawimayhem.com

Amount of tanks and tank sizes:
2 x 10 gallon, 1 x 15 gallon, 2 x 20 gallon, 3 x 29 gallon, 2 x 33 gallon, 2 x 48 gallon, 1 x 55 gallon, 1 x 90 gallon, 1 x 105 gallon = 15 tanks in total.

Racks:
Painted Metal racks, hold five tanks in total. Individual wooden stands for all larger tanks.

Heating:
Individual heaters in each tank.

Lighting:
Flourescent tubes on all tanks

Filtration:
Eheim canisters, AquaClear HOB’s, Penguin HOB’s

Electric installation:
Standard household outlets combined with surge protected powerbars

Flooring:
Carpet

Substrate:
Pacific ocean black beach pebble gravel from Bowen Island, B.C., Canada combined with crushed oyster shell from Oyster Island, Howe Sound, B.C., Canada.

Interiors, (plants rock work):
Most tanks without backgrounds, some tanks with Hagen backgrounds of various themes. Rocks from various origins. Some tanks have rocks from rivers, some from beaches, some form landscape suppliers (slate). Some fake wood with Java fern attached some with real wood with java fern attached. Some plastic plants.

What could have been done better?
Central filtration and room heating. Maybe soon to be?

Do you have a show tank in your livingroom?
55 gallon in Raf’s place and 105 gallon, 48 gallon, 33 gallon and rack of 2 x 29 gallon and 1 x 20 gallon at Jason’s place.

Fish

What cichlids do you keep?
Ever changing. Currently keep:
Aulonocara hansbaenschi
Aulonocara rubescens
Aulonocara sp. German Red
Aulonocara chipokae
Aulonocara kandeensis
Aulonocara maylandia
Aulonocara maulana
Aulonocara mamalela
Aulonocara lwanda
Aulonocara sp. Eureka
Labidochromis caeruleus “Yellow Morph”
Cynotilapia afra “Yellow Blaze”
Melanochromis maingano
Otopharynx lithobates
Sciaenochromis fryeri
Sciaenochromis fryeri “Iceberg”
Copadichromis jacksoni
Copadichromis borleyi “Kadango”
Copadichromis mloto
Protomelas taeniolatus “Likoma”
Protomelas steveni “Taiwan Reef”
Protomelas taeniolatus “Red Empress”
Placidochromis phenochilus
Lethrinops marginatus
Nimbochromis venustus
Cyrtocara moori
Dimidiochromis compressiceps

Your favourite fish in the room and why? (only one individual)
Aulonocara mamalela. All by himself in a tank of his own. Perfect fins, perfect colour, perfect fish!

Last fish purchased:
Copdichromis borleyi “Kadango”

Nr. 1. on your wish list:
A group of F0 or F1 Aulonocara chitendi “Type North”.

Maintanace

Waterchange frequency:
30% once a week

Method of waterchanges:
Siphon and buckets. Python system soon to come.

Smart gadgets to help working the room:
Large siphon hose, it makes things go quicker. Towels to wipe up any spills. Razor blade to scrap tough algae and calcium deposits off glass.

Foods for fry and grown fish:
Hikari bio gold pellets, Hikari gold pellets, Hikari excel, Hikari complete, Omega One cichlid pellets, Omega One Super Veggie, Omega One Veggie Flake, Hikari frozen foods: Bloodworms, Mysis, Krill, Brine, Baby brine

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