NBA Coach's Beautiful New Lake Tanganyika Aquarium

In today's video, we visit another NBA Coach to see his new beautiful Lake Tanganyika Aquarium! This big Waterbox aquarium has an awesome natural aquascape to Lake Tanganyika, and it has some young Tanganyikan cichlids and tank mates. I brought over shell dwellers to add to this tank, and it should be a great Tanganyika community tank over time. Looking forward to going back and filming the progression over time!
Damian Cotter is an Assistant NBA Coach for the Chicago Bulls. He was with us during the installation of Head Coach Billy Donovan's aquarium last year. It's awesome to see that there are now two Chicago Bulls coaches with beautiful aquariums!
Coach Billy Donovan's Installation - • CUSTOM CICHLID AQUARIU...
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Thanks again for watching, and we'll see you on the next one!

[@CraigersFish]

Always love seeing well done Tanganyika tanks...

[@CichlidBros]

It got us thinking about setting one up ourselves!

[@CraigersFish]

@@CichlidBros That would be AWESOME. There are not many quality KZbin channels with Lake Tanganyika content. Malawi channels seem to dominate KZbin

[@peedipeedi1506]

Being a fan of cichlid bros and a bulls fan is crazy right now lol

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks for following along with the channel! Big things happening in Chicago!

[@seanaustin8516]

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[@CichlidBros]

Thank you, Sean! Appreciate you following along!

[@seanaustin8516]

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[@jasono4735]

That is a really cool aquarium. Frontosa are such a beautiful fish.

[@CichlidBros]

Agreed! I think we need to get a Tanganyika tank now!

[@jasono4735]

The idea of a frontosa and tropheus tank that the coach had sounds pretty cool. Would love to see that

[@GandOAdventures]

What a nice tank. Tell him to paint the back of the tank black to make everything pop!! :)

[@stupacshakur8279]

Lovely tank! Question I currently have 5 big tetra 2 electric blue rams and 5 firemouth plus 3 oto algae eaters in a 20 gal long tank is that overstocked ?

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks! I would definitely recommend a larger tank. I would suggest at least a 55 gallon with that stocking

[@icedemon1515]

Honestly the 20 long should really only be able to house the 2 electric blue rams.

[@stupacshakur8279]

@@icedemon1515 yeah I’d agree I’m upgrading to a much larger tank this weekend when I’m of work, the 2 blue rams didn’t make it not sure why one died yesterday then the other today

[@icedemon1515]

@@stupacshakur8279 There are always so many factors it could be PH This is the PH those fish need blue ram pH of 5.5 - 6.5 oto's need pH: 6.8 - 7.5 pH Firemouth ranging between 6.5-8.0. I would assume the Rams probably were living in to high of PH and eventually just kind of died due to stress. I mean I am not really there so I don't know, but if I had to take a guess that is what I would say. The only reason I say PH is because the species is the only information I have from what you said, and I feel a tank crash would of killed the otos first.

[@stupacshakur8279]

@@icedemon1515 yeah I was thinking ph but when I had the water tested it was fine the shop that sold the fish said I could add them to the tank and just to do a 25% water change after adding them I had them on live blood worms that’s what I feed my betta he’s in a 30 litre also feed them to the firemouth and Columbia tetra, I contacted the shop they said it most likely died of a parasite in the blood worms and to get frozen from now on, I’m only new to the fish hobby so I don’t know a lot.

[@zsworld6609]

Working your way up! The next "tanked" show, only better

[@CichlidBros]

Appreciate that! 👊🏻👊🏻

[@jillholler7983]

Great video and interview with Coach Cotter!

[@CichlidBros]

Thank you!

[@shivaquatics5459]

Really amazing tank

[@5milemacc737]

Nice I have a 40g with 4 leleupis, 3 julies transcriptus and 1 gold face compressiceps. The julies are nice i'd add some to his tank.

[@twunderaquatics1770]

I am overrun with multies right now. I'd always wanted then and was so excited when I got them. Now stressed due to nobody wanting them😮

[@koryaqua8618]

Coach has style 😎

[@CichlidBros]

🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

awesome video as always

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks!

[@Andy-px1mj]

Stunning tank mate.

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks for watching!

[@davidenkob3795]

Nice tank. I propose black background

[@CichlidBros]

I think it looks good with the backlight on, it just wasn’t working that day. I usually prefer black though

[@seansquill8773]

🤩 wow! Such a cool down to earth guy… love the tank and the scape! I will do Africans again at some point 💯 Great video my bros !!!

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks, Sean! It was awesome to hang with Damian and check out the tank. Definitely made us start thinking about a Tanganyika tank!

[@ajiarofah7633]

Lov this 👍👍👍

[@antoinehage3762]

Beautiful tank, hope to see it again when the fish are bigger!

[@VinnysAquatics]

Looking good 👍👍👍

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks!

[@frankieroman5314]

Beautiful aquarium indeed

[@CichlidBros]

It was cool to see for sure!

[@sirwilliam7988]

Water box for Ballers. Literally.

[@CichlidBros]

Haha 👌🏻

[@65FullMoon83]

Just subscribed because "you guys know how to get things!"

[@sheilabruin-blake9507]

Yes it’s gorgeous like all the others

[@CichlidBros]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@brentclodgio7040]

WOuld love an update on fish growth, etc....

[@eelcog]

You do need way more shells though 😱

[@dinodinosaur2930]

Yes ... 1️⃣

[@jasonsingh5293]

African cichlids very beautiful fish i wish i the space for a big tane but i don't i only have a 75 Gallons with about 8 sevrums of different colors and i happy my fish is happy and my looks Amazing thanks for sharing cichlids bro's 👍👍

[@CichlidBros]

Thanks for watching!

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

have you ever kept ellioti cichlids before. i got a small one today which i love

[@CichlidBros]

We've kept many firemouths in the past but not ellioti yet. Would like to at some point

[@mattmaurer9458]

WB for the win. Looks familiar 7225

[@CichlidBros]

Definitely a quality tank

[@jaydobbyn3975]

Do we have an update on this tank?

[@paulg7964]

Fronts will love those shellies... Any bets on what fish will jump into the carpet first. I'm voting on the comp.

[@CichlidBros]

He said he had a lid coming … and the Shellies do just fine in a proper set up

[@paulg7964]

@@CichlidBros Key phrase "proper set up" Large fronts eat at night. A colony of Neolamprologus brichardi or splendens are nasty enough to co habitat in a rock pile. The colony will be kept in check naturally. My fronts shoved the escargot shells around and my shellies slowly disappeared.

[@nathancardinell6666]

Can you keep Shell dwellers with peacocks?

[@CichlidBros]

I wouldn’t recommend it. Once peacocks are adults they’ll likely pick off the shellies

[@johnmoquist4303]

Add a black background please. It will hide the wires and the fish will stand out

[@dondiggydon]

He should add some Cyprichromis Leptosomas!

[@CichlidBros]

I think he was going to add some!

[@paulg7964]

Open top tank. Your kidding right?

[@wendyhood1006]

No quarantine the fish ? Straight into his tank 😳

[@CichlidBros]

They came from my aquarium…

[@wendyhood1006]

@@CichlidBros that’s good 😊 sorry

[@CichlidBros]

@@wendyhood1006 all good!

[@bissonx1]

What type of lights do he have

[@CichlidBros]

AI Prime Lights - amzn.to/35yWwA8

[@MatthiasBruder-xn1ik]

It calmls me down seeing that you also have this annoying cyanos in your tank, Dude! I think shelldwellers and espacially the snailshells are "magnets" for the cyanos...

[@rara5212]

Everything super nice, but dude the kabels.... quite distracting

[@christopherbohdan6960]

Scape is just ok. Lack of a background and seeing all the wires an equipment takes away from any “natural” look.

[@CichlidBros]

I don’t think he’s done adding to the tank. Also the background is foggy grey but it also has backlit LEDs that come on and change colors

[@fishroom6457]

Paint the background people

[@CichlidBros]

It is a fog grey background with an color changing background

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

A bit bare and not very interesting apart from the fish IMO.

[@CichlidBros]

Once the fish grow, it definitely won’t be bare. Will try to film updates later on