Troph breeding

[nydobie]

What's the ideal size tank for breeding trophs?

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Ideal?

It depends on the size of the colony and variant. Typically people have bred Tropheus groups in 75g for many years with success. But in my opinion it's better to go with a 6ft tank 100g or greater... Black Species will spawn in pretty much any size tank that the alpha can get under control enough to spawn successfully. Brichardi are the same, Smaller groups of Duboisi have been breed in tanks a small as 40g myself and others and for me Moorii seem to do best in 6 tanks.

[nydobie]

Now you got me thinking, i wanted to run 40 gal breeders to maximize the amount of different variants, but if i go with 75's with only sponges would it still work or am i gonna have to run mechanical filters? Im very weary of only using sponges

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

I think that if you double stacked sponge filters and maybe threw in a single box filter that had bio in half and a refillable carbon bog filling the rest of it, that would do well. May put a medium grade layer of sponge on top of it to help filter a little debris to avoid clogging up the carbon and bio media.