Welcome to the addiction known as Tropheus. Tropheus are crazy, the next thing you know your smallest tank in the House is a 115 gallon, and you have no TV or Stero. You gave all that away to make room for more tanks. :wink:
In a 90 gallon you can keep about 20-22 fish that will reach adult size without much a issue as long as the filtration on the aquarium is 7-10X turnover if your using canisters and hang on the back (HOB) filters. If your going to use a wetdry, and with Tropheus I really think wet-dry's are better suited for them, make sure your pump and overflow box has the capacity to turnover the tank atleast 4-5X per hour.
So a 90 Gallon would need about 630 to 900 GPH (canisters/HOB's) of filtration or about 450 gph capacity if using a wet dry and pump combo.
There are sources of Wild Tropheus from the Southern Part of the lake and from Tanzanian Coast. Most of the Northern Tropeheus and Congo Tropheus is a very rare collection these days due to political reasons in the region.
Tank raised and pond raised Tropheus is availible in the US of almost all the collected species in the last 10 years. So there is a good to large selection of them, you just got get with a breeder or a online dealer. There is a lot of good online dealers that support this site, look at the review section for mail order fish, and start looking.
In the meantime, read as many posts in this forum about their food, care, and aquarium setups. If you got more questions just ask, someone will answer them.
Take care,
Geoff
In a 90 gallon you can keep about 20-22 fish that will reach adult size without much a issue as long as the filtration on the aquarium is 7-10X turnover if your using canisters and hang on the back (HOB) filters. If your going to use a wetdry, and with Tropheus I really think wet-dry's are better suited for them, make sure your pump and overflow box has the capacity to turnover the tank atleast 4-5X per hour.
So a 90 Gallon would need about 630 to 900 GPH (canisters/HOB's) of filtration or about 450 gph capacity if using a wet dry and pump combo.
There are sources of Wild Tropheus from the Southern Part of the lake and from Tanzanian Coast. Most of the Northern Tropeheus and Congo Tropheus is a very rare collection these days due to political reasons in the region.
Tank raised and pond raised Tropheus is availible in the US of almost all the collected species in the last 10 years. So there is a good to large selection of them, you just got get with a breeder or a online dealer. There is a lot of good online dealers that support this site, look at the review section for mail order fish, and start looking.
In the meantime, read as many posts in this forum about their food, care, and aquarium setups. If you got more questions just ask, someone will answer them.
Take care,
Geoff
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