Chocolate Cichlid | Care Guide & Species Profile
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Today's video is a care guide on the Chocolate Cichlid (Hypselecara temporalis). Also called the Emerald cichlid, the Chocolate cichlid is an awesome South American cichlid to keep.
They are relatively peaceful for a large cichlid, and they can be tank mates with a variety of cichlids and other fish. They have great personality and color, and I would definitely recommend them - as long as you have a large enough tank size!
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Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week!
A few great food options for Chocolate cichlids below. We've used these for years.
- Xtreme Krill Flakes - geni.us/iTAWsN
- Xtreme Big Fella Pellets - geni.us/9Cra
- Xtreme Nice Pellets - geni.us/6ADcc
I have a male gold Gourami and female Opaline Gourami I will add a single male festivum cichlid
I love that you do this series. It's really informative and I like that you focus on one species at a time.
Thanks for watching! Glad it’s helpful!
Yum chocolate Cichlid for Valentine’s Day
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I had one for about 9 years in my 180 got along great with my 2 oscars ,green Severum& bala sharks
Great video, I like the look of the juvenile more than the big boy. Great info
Thank you!
Just got a chocolate cichlid today 🐟‼️
Awesome!
Such a cutie pie 🙂🙂🤗🤗🤗
Quickly becoming my favorite. Just picked up a juvie. Was super shy and was getting picked on in my qt with new severum, gt and catfish. After two days it’s the tank boss 😂😂😂 enjoy it now until he he’s into the main 135 😁
Nice looking cichlid.
Thanks!
chocolate cichlids are pretty cool
Agreed!
Hey man your fish tank is magnificent! I would like to keep a chocolate cichlid no doubt in the future possible a 300g amazon biotope for sure specially with all the tank makes you mention , I keep the smaller cichlids like the acara and such. Great content keep it up!.
Thank you! I’d definitely recommend a setup like that. It’s a great choice!
So sweeet the way u say "chocolate" cichlid hehe
Had a beautiful one named Bobo. She was nearly 11 inches, weighed 1/1/4 lbs and had a nuchal hump. Sadly died from bacterial cysts. Bobo could change into every color except blue and white.
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Thanks! Appreciate it
I have one too they have great personality. Mine is blind one on his right eye but it's cute how he tries to figure out where his food is. Once he finds it he darts like an oscar.😂
Recently added a 2” chocolate to my 125 gal. Can’t figure out why he stays at the top and won’t swim with the other Severums and Gouramis. He also swims erratically fast back and forth. Don’t see any disease or anything.
There fine with small fish in general too, just gotta have some big peices of bog wood for hiding places in case the chocolate gets into a mood but mostly there fine, same as Oscar's I have 2 40cm (15 inch) Oscar's and there in a tank with heaps of fish ranging from 5cm - 10cm (2inch - 4inch)
Love your tank a fish question I live in the Chicago area where did you buy the chocolate cichlid?
Thank you! I actually ordered this guy online at imperial tropicals since they’re sometimes hard to find in the area
He is on my list, the only fish that you have that I'm not considering is the Tapajós, but the Severum,(4) chocolate, (1) electric blue acará,(4)Bala shark(4) and perhaps rainbow fish (2) and Oscar(1) for a tank in meters (1.6 meters length) and 50 centimeters width and height that we'll be 400 liters of water, what do you think about this?
Sounds like a great setup. It might be a bit tight once the group of Balas are adults. But overall a great tank
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Do you know where they have them on a regular basis in the Chicagoland area
I’ve seen them at aquarium adventure occasionally. But nowhere seems to have them consistently
can you share the growth rate of your chocolate cichlid? I've had mine for 6 months, only grew from 2 inches to about 3.5 inches, wondered was it expected
Hi Troy been following you guys for while now I'm just about to purchase a choc cichlid what's the rough growth rate as the one I'm getting is juvenile so will go in a grow out before going in my 150 with my long finned Oscar and a friop of severums and acaras.. Thanks Chris
It’s pretty quick. Not as much as an Oscar’s but maybe more like the severum
@@CichlidBros awesome.. Thanks
I have a chocolate cichlid my son named Big Show! Ha
Great name!
Ahhhhhh my chocolate cichlids just had babies!!!!!!!!! Helpppppppp
Cute little bastard
My red spotted serum terrorised my chocolate chilclid
I love mine. Fun to watch them eat. They also grow fast.
Wow that 180g tank is awesome! I bet that tank cost a fortune. I keep African cichlids and community tropical fish. You got me itching to start a South American cichlid tank! Love that gold severum and the geos especially. Nice tank all around.
Thank you!
I had African cichlids South Americans are so much better friendlier more personality and bigger
Do you think Oscar’s or Chocolate Chiclids have better personalities? I’m not sure which. Way to go
It’s close, but I don’t think much beats the Oscar
Great fish! Completely agree with everything there. I’ve got one about the same size and age in my 125 that gets along great with the Severums, Geos and Oscar in the tank.
Hey so my tank with severums, my 125, I had a chocolate, when my tank crashed, he was the only one who died, about 3 years old, so later I got another one and after about 4 years it got swollen at the vent, quit eating, i had to put him down. Just bad luck? are they weaker than others like severums
I have a chocolate cichlid that's about a year old or so but hasn't grown more then 4 inches and it's in a 110 gallon so I'm confused
I don't know but you can't for the love of god get this fish in yhe uk. Iv tried for a long time including a lot of Internet search
Great video. Thanks! What are the different tank mates in this tank?
Thank you! I have a few severums, Geophagus, an Oscar, a true parrot and an electric blue acara
Great info packed video ❤
When I was a kid my Dad had a gold saum that would take pellets out of your fingers and follow me back and forth when I would walk around the tank.
Very nice
green terror ok in a 125 with severums or too risky?
Would likely work out fine
Can you do a care vid for the various species of guianacara.........awesome fish almost invisible in the hobby.
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