Well I have a 125G cycled and now ready for something...

I have never kept fronts and was leaning towards getting a colony of WC Mpimbwe in there. I am still undecided on this as this will be my show tank, just like all other tanks in my house. I am not sure if front will like to be in a living room tank, I dont know if I will like the action or lack there of that will be going on in there.... help me you here hehe.

Another option is to get a malawi peacock, haps show tank. I used to have one like this long time ago and well.... there was a reason why I got rid of all the fish. I decided that I prefered to watch fish rather then just look at them...

What do you think I will be doing with fronts??? Watching or looking???

Please feel free to give me any other ideas.

I have a 90G with utinta, paracyps, enantiopus.... so dont really want another tank like this..... but was also thinking about 30 Kitumba and 7 or so featherfins...

Can you tell I am really confused??? dumb dumb

here is my two cents.....i have had fronts and had a colony not wc. Once the dominent male gets established i found he spent most of his time in his cave and the females did most of the swimming. However, after a while the whole colony decided that they were going to lay around and not do much swimming. I still have my large males and have had him for well over 5 yrs he's beautiful and cant aprt with him. His largest females is also with him they dont do a ton of moving but when u see a fully grown adult male front with his fins trailing behind him swimming in a larget ank its an amazing site. If you are looking for tons of movement and action i woul suggest something else (tropheus perhaps)

I agree with Adam on the tropheus.

If you want hyper activity, then choose Mbuna! Giggly

They will give you plenty action to watch and then pull
your hair out over! On the Floor Laughing

Well I had tropheus for over a year and now want to try something else. Just want to make sure that what I pick wont bore me to death.... and seeing others ppls frontosa tanks make we want to try...

How about Featherfins?

They have always intrigued me and are on my to do list one of these days.

Featherfin Profiles

Good Luck with your decision! Cheers!!!

Well Tom, if you never had Frontosa you have to get it out of your system. A nicely aquascaped Frontosa tank sure looks good and it appears that you have your mind already made up. However, as Adam mentioned already, there will not be much action in this tank. Yes, they are beautiful looking fish but .........
All I can suggest is to try them and make your own experiences.

So Klaus... why did you get rid of your colony?? I forgot.... and no I dont have my mind made up yet... but frontosa tank was on my mind for a long time.

My g/f is pushing me to get all male "pretty" looking show tank... but I dont know if I just want to look at the fish. I much much prefer to watch... example of that my SA tank with geos, cupidos, loaches :)

IF Klaus were to tell the truth he'd admit that he got rid of the Fronts because its like watching grass grow. I know I just hit a nerve with a few, but like Klaus says, their initially great to look at, but they don't do anything. I got so bored with mine that I put them outside in my Koi pond for a few months every summer to try and get them some personality. But that didn't work, so I too lost them. They are majestic and regal but if you are the type to get bored watching the paint on the wall fade faster than the damn fish move then try something else. Like was mentioned, feather fins are incredible and there is nothing more impressive than a 6 foot tank full of cyps. (I've got over 300 in one). But if you want some real fun and a really nonstop impressive tank, fill it full of Petros. Its a challenge to keep them from killing eachother, but give it a try.
markw

i have had my wild group of kapampa fronts for over a year, and yes there very nice but not to much action. the dominent male stays in his shell most of the time... i just love them and i have the room so i figure why not. Depending on how much you want to spend, it costs alot of $$$ to setup a pretty malawi tank if you go with the high quality i see you are asking for on pn. usually 40$+ per fish and it will take a bunch for the 125g to look full. its all up to you tho. my current show tank is a 220g with mearly a breeding group of 8 peacocks and a trio of red empress and im happy lol. looks very understocked but the peacock males are very beautiful along with the red empress male, and i never have fighting this way and i get 100 fry a month lol. its all up to what you personally like to see. most people would call my showtank very boring, but alot more naturally done in terms of stocking i guess.... im just rambing on here... good luck,
brad

Tom, I could not describe it any better then Mark. The only time there was some movement in that tank was when my two big males started to fight. However, the only person who would love to keep them are beginners in photography because they just don't move and it is easy to get good pictures of them (Mark couldn't even do that).
To answer your question, I got rid of mine because I was bored with them and I wanted to set-up an SA tank.

Now Mark's idea of a Petrochromis tank sounds great to me. There are very colorful variants on the market right now. Drooly Drooly

Unfortunately the only downsize to Petros is to get some nice variants, you need to sell you're house to pay for them. But then again, what's money for anyway?

I am a big fan of the petros, one of our LFSes has some great ones for $20 a piece. Made me want to buy them and build a bigger house. dumb dumb

Anyway, another option for bigger with more personality would be a venustus group and then add a few mbuna groups for a splash of color.