The obligatory stocking opinion question

[misterted]

Most of you are familiar to me from the other forums but I just registered here so...how's everyone doin'?

Anyway, I posted this on CF and didn't get many responses except for one from Spyder so I figured I would try it here:

I've been thinking about getting rid of my 125G, 75G and 29G and mixing all the species of Mbuna together in one 265G tank.
I know I can keep most together but am not sure about the following:

PS Daktari Hai Reef (Yellow Males)
PS Demasoni (Blue Barred)
PS. Zebra Long Pelvic Gara Galleriya Reef (Blue Barred with Yellow Top Male)
PS. Saulosi (Yellow Females and Blue Barred Males)
Cynotilapia Afra Jalo Reef (Blue Barred with Yellow Top Male)
Labeotropheus Fulleborni Katale
Labeotropheus Trewavasae Mphanga

What do you think? Can I keep those together in the same 265G?
The reason I think I can is because there are plenty of females of all species and because its a massive tank.

I don't think I would have aproblem with any of the females, just the males.
Does anyone see any potential problems with this?

There are other species of Mbuna in addition to this but I think I'll be OK with those.

Curious to hear your opinions.


Thanks,
Ted

[why_spyder]

Labeotropheus Fulleborni Katale
Labeotropheus Trewavasae Mphanga


Ted, how different are the females of these two species? These would be the two species that I would be most worried about mixing as I fear they have too similar of females.

[EMTBMIKE]

The labeotropheus will cross breed.

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

Most of the fish have similar marking's and from the same family. Unless you really love each and every one I'd start with a couple of your favorites and trade with others to make a more harmonius mix since your starting from scratch. It could be an awesome show tank.

[misterted]

The F. Katale females are OB's and they are blacks and yellows.
The Trweavase females are pinkish with some light OB but they look nothing like eachother and neither do the males.


Will they crossbreed?

What about the rest?

[EMTBMIKE]

They will still crossbreed.

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

In tank's hap's breed with peacocks and most of the ps. males with court most of the ps females. It's not going to be easy to stop the unwanted spawning.