That's really nice of you to say! I've seen much prettier African tanks, but there isn't a lot you can do with the decor if you want to have happy ACs. I hope you get like it soon!
Definitely TB Cichlids. I ordered about 20 fish from him. They were all supposed to be guaranteed males!. Ha! About nine of them turned out to be females. I got refunded for only one of them. Two got killed from too much aggression from the other males. Most of them are stunted. Not growing well. I will never ever buy fish from him again.
Outstanding video, and tank, quite possibly the best Cichlid video I have seen. Love your electric blue Ali, makes me sad as it reminds me of the one that I bought from local fish store, brought it home, and unfortunately, within a couple of days, it had developed hole in the head disease and died. By the way, you do such a nice job with the commentary and the explanations which I truly enjoy as someone who has done mostly Mbuna cichlids. Thanks for this Beautiful assortment of peacocks, haps, and of course Ray the Mbuna.
@CichlidCharmer i have a predator hap tank, malawi hawk, Gar, malawi trout, sand diver, OB eye biter, they should be around the same in aggression right?
@Cichlid Charmer, I love the video. Thanks for showing all the residents of Alcatraz. Beautiful. I have a 65 gallon acrylic called Rock City with all Mbunas. 23 in all. I'm now having a 90 gallon acrylic made which I want to do all male Peacocks. I've been dealing with Imperial Tropicals. I'm gonna go with the 2"-3" guaranteed males. I hope I don't have any problems. I would like to do a total of 12 to 15 in all and two pieces of driftwood to break that line of sight. I'm hoping that it will be beautiful also. Going to subscribe. I like how you give detailed information. Please keep the videos coming. As a newcomer, I really appreciate it.
Thank you! Rock City - cool name 😎. Where are you getting the acrylic from? I rarely have any issues at all with Imperial Tropicals - I bet you’ll be fine.
Have to be careful about that, but if you read reviews on this company, you'll find tons of them about being sent females instead of guaranteed males and poor shipping practices.
Outstanding set-up dude. just found ur channel. That Insignis Hap OB is absolutely beautiful to me. Blue and White with a bit of gold is one of my favorite color schemes. I would love more info on it if possible. Like What Hap and Mbuna cross made it exactly? was all the offspring speckled the same? have any more? lol sorry if that was too much.
Thank you, and thank you for enjoying my fish. Unfortunately he is no longer with us… there was a chlorine disaster a week ago. Full video on it 😭. Very sad time!! Just added new fish, though.
Changing a normal tropical community tank includes angels,gouramis,clowns and a few larger tetras slowly over to a African peacock tank what peacock’s can I add to start the change over hopefully the more friendlier common fish the better
My advice would be to do it all at once. Rehome all the community fish, adjust your pH if necessary with something like aragonite sand and/or crushed coral, and then add 5 or so peacocks at a time. They're just too mean for those community fish and they would probably destroy them, maybe while you sleep.
Wow. I just discovered your channel. Excellent video. I am starting a 135 gallon chiclid aquarium. I will use your list!! Are there any other chiclid sellers, you can reccommed? I noted down snake river. Also what king of substrate is that, it very nice. Maybe it's crushed coral. Not sure. Thanks
Thank you, Gregory! I love Ron’s Cichlids. I also just received a great shipment from Live Fish Direct. Some others that have good reputations are Andre Pitre on fb and black label, but I haven’t used them. My substrate is aragonite. Crushed coral is good in filters, but the edges are too sharp for these sand sifters to use as substrate.
Rick is A Red top aristochromis Lithobates that's why he doesn't have a blaze...they are relative to the otopharnyx Lithobate Zimbabwe Rock aka Z rocks which they are more blue and have a nice yellow Blaze....still a beautiful fish you have
@@Urjfhskioeuwjd a Tanganyikan… I do rather see more of a resemblance to the daffodil. It was sent as a Jalo reef, and I know very little about mbuna. I figured some stripes were coming on, but I suppose not.
@@CichlidCharmer he really is !! I’ve had a lot of the more basic cichlids over the yrs just from local places and once I started browsing around the internet I found a lot really cool ones !
Bronco for the Borleyi Victor for the VC-10 100% that’s a Taiwan Reef that you suspect That’s a red empress just an “ugly” one lol PetCo boy is an albino Dragonblood (strawberry) Fish look great!! Thanks for the shout ❤️
Hi Squatch! So I think I’m going with Boris for the borlyi and Victor I’ve had two suggest, so that’s my VC10. Good solid names! You think that the ugly one is a Taiwan along with the other one that’s a Taiwan? They really look so different. I have considered the orange one to be a strawberry albino, but pics of them don’t look orange. Thoughts? Thanks for piping in!
@@CichlidCharmer the “ugly” one is likely a red empress. I’ve seen them range from mild reds to super reds. The mild reds just look fugly to me 😂 it that albino is more orange and not red (looks red in the video) - then it’s likely just an albino Dragonblood. They’ll be typical albino red eyes and orange all over generally
Awesome love seeing this thank you for doing it! I'm not sure which is my favourite I think if it were my tank it would change everytime I look! One thing maybe to think of with your Yellow Lab, Labs are not 'true' Mbuna, in the sense that they live between the rock and the open water and are slightly more omnivourous than other Mbuna species so mixing them with Peacocks and Haps is often a safer bet than other species like the Mbuna waiting in your 75. Acei sort of fit in this category as well though not as well as Labs - if you ever wanted to try you could probably add more Yellow Labs but you might then have the problem of breeding which you seem to avoid nicely right now.
That is interesting! I have thought about it but dismissed the idea because I thought I would need to add a lot more hiding places, and I don’t want to do that. My daughter would love more Rays though. He’s the only fish she likes 😂
@@CichlidCharmer I've always shied away from Yellow Labs because they seem 'too obvious' but I just don't think they can be beat for such an intense yellow, mellow personalities. They are definitely on my list!
Oh man, I did a terrible job with it! Not enough soap. You have to SPRAY that soapy water on HARD 🤩 Anyway, stick the light toward the front of the tank and it’ll help hide it in the shadows.
Love Alcatraz, my ideas for names, VC-10 Milo from the Zombies movies Milo Manheim, Borleyi Boris Karloff, Rhodi Hawk the Author, and I like Spock for the Star Sapphire. OK my fav from your tank has to be Furc dumb as a box of rocks haha, Moby then Ray. Guess what my news is well I'm tankless yup my son came and got all 6 of my tanks and now I'm kind of sad about it. No more fish here of course you know what I'm thinking hum maybe just one yes just one...Polly!
@@CichlidCharmer Glad you like the names, OK I got rid of the tanks because of all the work but now my house is empty and quiet (I always thought I had silent set ups), so no more, well maybe, but nope well........
Could be a Taiwan Empress I’ve seen them look similar but it’s definitely has some red empress like you said So fluent with the names man. Great job 🙏 …edit didn’t see someone had already suggested that🤘
@@CichlidCharmer haha probably just the subdominant then. They likely wouldn’t have gotten an opportunity for that to happen at a reputable breeder like you probably ordered from🤘
The Dolphins are always one of my favourites when I'm looking at african cichlids, what would be the minimum tank size in your opinion to keep a single specimen? Thanks
@@MakoyUnggoy they get about ten inches so I suppose you could do a single in a 75. I would like a few more feet of swimming room side to side if it were me. I’m that way though. I didn’t get an Oscar for my 180 because I thought he should have more room side to side.
Thank you! The best ones I’ve used are Snake River Cichlids and Imperial Tropicals. If you really want the best, I’ve heard that Ron’s Cichlids and Andre Pitre are fantastic. Andre is on fb.
You can but you have to take a lot of things into consideration. You have to have enough space for them and you need a certain amount of females to every male. The males will certainly be very colorful if you breed them correctly.
I e had fish off and on since I was a kid. These Africans I’m going on three years. This video will tell you all about the tanks: FULL TOUR -- Home & 5 TANKS th-cam.com/video/YQZyrqQcEHc/w-d-xo.html Thanks for asking!
@CichlidCharmer deep water haps are very light blue with some pearlescent hint to them. Gissel black face haps look similar to deep water haps but much darker blue. But you definitely have a star sapphire that is starting to chip. They're slow growers though so it might take a little bit but i see at speckles on yours already. My guess is yours is about 2 yrs old.
@@MiniMonsters508 well really as many as you want as long as the filtration and water changes can keep the water clean and healthy. HOWEVER, I highly discourage this. A 75 is a pretty small tank for these guys and they love lots of free swimming room. Check out this video where I talk about this: HOW MANY African Cichlids Should You Have in YOUR TANK? | Stocking Guide th-cam.com/video/r2rlEfM39x4/w-d-xo.html
hey maybe you can name the red fin borleyi killer after my dead orange mbuna cichlid if you do that its appreciated and if you don't name him that its fine but 1st comment :D pin pls maybe idk? but yea can u please name him / her killer for male or killet for female and it can be killer as for killer looks because he looks amazing and can you name the smaller electric blue azil casper after my albino mbuna who got eaten :(
Thanks! I kept fish for years (stoneage 70 n 80s). Worked in petshops as a teen. But I'm alitte rusty. I've got a community tank with 3angels . I'm trying to figure out what I can put with them. (They beat up my Bettas and my guppies are almost gone!). Any African cichlids that could get along with them????
@@QE1beth African cichlids would destroy your angels. I would look at some geophagus cichlids. Depending on the size of your tank, some smaller ones like my red headed tapajos would work. If you have a large tank of six feet in length or more you could start looking at some other geophagus options.
Here's mine: Vc10 Venustus Red fin ob borleyi Red fin borleyi Z rock Ob fryeri Electric fryeri Eureka Jake Otterpoint Jake Star sapphire Deep water hap Red shoulder Dragon blood ob Lemon Jake Canary yellow ob Chitimba peacock Ob red empress Albino red empress Ndiwe fire hap Taiwan reef Albino Turkish Blue neon peacock Super red albino peacock Lawanda peacock All in 125 gallon
@@CichlidCharmer my otterpoint almost looks like my lemon Jake. But top dorsal is slightly different in pattern and rest of the fins as well. Picture a yellow eureka, but yellow not that bright. But the fins are so long he's great. And I have the albino Turkis and he's gotten pretty big. One of my first guys in my original 55 gallon. Almost looks like a benga sunshine peacock.
Sorry I thought I answered this. I’ve had good fortune with Snake River and Imperial Tropicals. I’ve heard good things about Ron’s cichlids and Ivan Pitre on fb.
Yep, I'm going with a black background. For my 250-gallon tank. All my other tanks are lite blue. Thanks for the visual. Tank and fish look amazing.
You're welcome, and thank YOU
Thank you! Starting small with a 60 gallon tank but do want African Cichlids, this video was priceless!
Thank you -- glad you found it useful!
This was one joyful videos to watch. I don't know what I enjoyed the most, the fish, the tank or your narration. Keep it up!
Thank you so much, Haroon!
Amazing tank. Love the fish
Thank you!
Love all your Aquariums and Fish!! If you don't mind me asking, What food and Sublaments are you using?
Thank you!
One of the most beautiful setups and tanks iv ever seen, im striving to have one well kept with beautifull fish like yours 💪
That's really nice of you to say! I've seen much prettier African tanks, but there isn't a lot you can do with the decor if you want to have happy ACs. I hope you get like it soon!
Nice fish, nice tank. I've let my big 1 go a bit. Shamed me into a good clean lol 😂
New subscriber here ! Great content. I love that insignis ob. I would love to find one of those for my tank
Thank you!
Nevermind, lol, I just seen them on your page. 😂😊
Excellent!
Yes! Love African Cichlids. Great commentary and editing on the video also.
Thank you!
I hope u answer my questions 😄the rhodi? Rhodi Rhodi Piper? 😄 Love the psycho comedy.. u had me laughing
That's a good one 😂😂😂
@@CichlidCharmer 😄😆
Sounds like TB Cichlids lol great tank
I thought so, too 🧐 and thanks for the compliment!
Definitely TB Cichlids. I ordered about 20 fish from him. They were all supposed to be guaranteed males!. Ha! About nine of them turned out to be females. I got refunded for only one of them. Two got killed from too much aggression from the other males.
Most of them are stunted. Not growing well. I will never ever buy fish from him again.
Great job. Your fish have some amazing color.
Thank you!
Stunning fish. VC10 should be Victor. Phonetic alphabet for pilots and all
Love it - done, Mr Jones.
@@CichlidCharmer hahha Amazing!!
Nice video sir, awesome fish and tank. Greetings and blessings from Curaçao.
Thank you! Thanks for watching from so far away!
Stunning fish and tank here. Beautifully kept! 😍
Thank you! 🙏
Great looking fish; one of my tanks is stocked with mbuna. This video makes me jealous, longing for some peacocks and haps!
Thank you! I’m loving the haps more than peacocks.
Love your tank. And all you're gorgeous fish. Great job
Oh thank you! Means a lot to me ❤️
great tank & inhabitants
Thank you!
Arrested Development (Steve Holt). Thinking of using all the names in that show for my tank :) Thanks from Sweden for an very enjoyable video!
Sweden - awesome! Thanks for watching and for the cool comment!
Outstanding video, and tank, quite possibly the best Cichlid video I have seen. Love your electric blue Ali, makes me sad as it reminds me of the one that I bought from local fish store, brought it home, and unfortunately, within a couple of days, it had developed hole in the head disease and died.
By the way, you do such a nice job with the commentary and the explanations which I truly enjoy as someone who has done mostly Mbuna cichlids. Thanks for this Beautiful assortment of peacocks, haps, and of course Ray the Mbuna.
Thank you so much! I have more videos on mbuna now that I've had them for almost a year now. New video on them coming out this Saturday as well.
Beautiful collection
Thank you very much!
Love your African cichlids haps aquarium. I'm working on setting up an aquarium for just Haps.
I love hap aquariums. I won’t be replacing any peacocks as they retire.
And thank you!
That white OB with the yellow belly is a show stopper
Glad you think so! 🤘
Fabio? 😂
Great upload mate. I’m starting to get back into African cichlids. Fascinating species
Thank you very much, Justin!
Amazing quality videos !!
Most appreciated, Mugger!
@@CichlidCharmerWould you ever get a frontosa
@@muggerb8852 not unless I had a frontosa colony. I wouldn’t add one to my crazy haps and peas.
Nice video !
Thank you so much!
Beautiful and healthy one of the best tanks I’ve seen‼️
Aw thank you!!
Thank you, I'll be getting a sunset hap to add to my collection
Gorgeous fish. They can be a bit aggressive
@CichlidCharmer i have a predator hap tank, malawi hawk, Gar, malawi trout, sand diver, OB eye biter, they should be around the same in aggression right?
You surely got some presidential collection of African cichlids, mate! 🍺
Thank you, sir!
@Cichlid Charmer, I love the video. Thanks for showing all the residents of Alcatraz. Beautiful. I have a 65 gallon acrylic called Rock City with all Mbunas. 23 in all. I'm now having a 90 gallon acrylic made which I want to do all male Peacocks. I've been dealing with Imperial Tropicals. I'm gonna go with the 2"-3" guaranteed males. I hope I don't have any problems. I would like to do a total of 12 to 15 in all and two pieces of driftwood to break that line of sight. I'm hoping that it will be beautiful also. Going to subscribe. I like how you give detailed information. Please keep the videos coming. As a newcomer, I really appreciate it.
Thank you! Rock City - cool name 😎. Where are you getting the acrylic from? I rarely have any issues at all with Imperial Tropicals - I bet you’ll be fine.
I also have two of the orange fish at 17:00 and they also have the albino looking eyes, unlike the black eyes of a red zebra.
I think he was an albino dragon blood
Can you share who you brought them from just so we don't make the same mistake, please?
Have to be careful about that, but if you read reviews on this company, you'll find tons of them about being sent females instead of guaranteed males and poor shipping practices.
Outstanding set-up dude. just found ur channel. That Insignis Hap OB is absolutely beautiful to me. Blue and White with a bit of gold is one of my favorite color schemes. I would love more info on it if possible. Like What Hap and Mbuna cross made it exactly? was all the offspring speckled the same? have any more? lol sorry if that was too much.
Thank you, and thank you for enjoying my fish. Unfortunately he is no longer with us… there was a chlorine disaster a week ago. Full video on it 😭. Very sad time!! Just added new fish, though.
The fish I would recommend to you is Protomelas Taeniolatus Boadzulu aka Super Red empress.
That is a great-looking fish!
Love your content, Klipsch Ref #2 ??
Thank you so much! 🙏 I don’t remember which ref speakers they are, but they are the lower end of klipsch. I have better ones in my office.
Beautiful fish. Where do you get them and rocks. I have ob cichlids and they now just getting old enough to pop color.
These came from imperial tropicals and snake River cichlids. The fake rocks are from Aquadecor. Have fun with your OBs!
Changing a normal tropical community tank includes angels,gouramis,clowns and a few larger tetras slowly over to a African peacock tank what peacock’s can I add to start the change over hopefully the more friendlier common fish the better
My advice would be to do it all at once. Rehome all the community fish, adjust your pH if necessary with something like aragonite sand and/or crushed coral, and then add 5 or so peacocks at a time. They're just too mean for those community fish and they would probably destroy them, maybe while you sleep.
Wow. I just discovered your channel. Excellent video. I am starting a 135 gallon chiclid aquarium. I will use your list!! Are there any other chiclid sellers, you can reccommed? I noted down snake river. Also what king of substrate is that, it very nice. Maybe it's crushed coral. Not sure. Thanks
Thank you, Gregory! I love Ron’s Cichlids. I also just received a great shipment from Live Fish Direct. Some others that have good reputations are Andre Pitre on fb and black label, but I haven’t used them. My substrate is aragonite. Crushed coral is good in filters, but the edges are too sharp for these sand sifters to use as substrate.
Great 👍 thank you so much. I love your aquariums!!
Rick is A Red top aristochromis Lithobates that's why he doesn't have a blaze...they are relative to the otopharnyx Lithobate Zimbabwe Rock aka Z rocks which they are more blue and have a nice yellow Blaze....still a beautiful fish you have
Thank you, angel. I don’t know he looks different to me than the images I’ve found of the red top. You really think so?
19:09 that’s a daffodil cichlid, not a jalo reef mbuna cichlid
@@Urjfhskioeuwjd a Tanganyikan… I do rather see more of a resemblance to the daffodil. It was sent as a Jalo reef, and I know very little about mbuna. I figured some stripes were coming on, but I suppose not.
Where did you get your fercicauda? I’m curious. I also have a 240 and every time I see your videos I think he’s so cool!!
Isn’t he a character? I was given him locally by another fish keeper. I believe Ron’s Cichlids has them. Not positive on that one. Thanks for asking!
@@CichlidCharmer he really is !! I’ve had a lot of the more basic cichlids over the yrs just from local places and once I started browsing around the internet I found a lot really cool ones !
Bronco for the Borleyi
Victor for the VC-10
100% that’s a Taiwan Reef that you suspect
That’s a red empress just an “ugly” one lol
PetCo boy is an albino Dragonblood (strawberry)
Fish look great!! Thanks for the shout ❤️
Hi Squatch! So I think I’m going with Boris for the borlyi and Victor I’ve had two suggest, so that’s my VC10. Good solid names! You think that the ugly one is a Taiwan along with the other one that’s a Taiwan? They really look so different. I have considered the orange one to be a strawberry albino, but pics of them don’t look orange. Thoughts? Thanks for piping in!
@@CichlidCharmer the “ugly” one is likely a red empress. I’ve seen them range from mild reds to super reds. The mild reds just look fugly to me 😂 it that albino is more orange and not red (looks red in the video) - then it’s likely just an albino Dragonblood. They’ll be typical albino red eyes and orange all over generally
@@SquatchsCichlids nice. Hey I am making a video on the coloring up of the borleyi, and making mention of you. Should be in the next few days.
Awesome love seeing this thank you for doing it! I'm not sure which is my favourite I think if it were my tank it would change everytime I look! One thing maybe to think of with your Yellow Lab, Labs are not 'true' Mbuna, in the sense that they live between the rock and the open water and are slightly more omnivourous than other Mbuna species so mixing them with Peacocks and Haps is often a safer bet than other species like the Mbuna waiting in your 75. Acei sort of fit in this category as well though not as well as Labs - if you ever wanted to try you could probably add more Yellow Labs but you might then have the problem of breeding which you seem to avoid nicely right now.
That is interesting! I have thought about it but dismissed the idea because I thought I would need to add a lot more hiding places, and I don’t want to do that. My daughter would love more Rays though. He’s the only fish she likes 😂
@@CichlidCharmer I've always shied away from Yellow Labs because they seem 'too obvious' but I just don't think they can be beat for such an intense yellow, mellow personalities. They are definitely on my list!
@@WillsAquarist I get that for sure. Ray has really grown on me.
Enjoyed it vm! I wonder how you rehome the fish?
Thank you! When I rehome I either sell from fb marketplace or sell to my lfs
how does your black background looks soo dark and good ? it literally pops the fishes so bright ...is it becoz of lighting position or what?
Oh man, I did a terrible job with it! Not enough soap. You have to SPRAY that soapy water on HARD 🤩 Anyway, stick the light toward the front of the tank and it’ll help hide it in the shadows.
Tq 😊
Love Alcatraz, my ideas for names, VC-10 Milo from the Zombies movies Milo Manheim, Borleyi Boris Karloff, Rhodi Hawk the Author, and I like Spock for the Star Sapphire. OK my fav from your tank has to be Furc dumb as a box of rocks haha, Moby then Ray. Guess what my news is well I'm tankless yup my son came and got all 6 of my tanks and now I'm kind of sad about it. No more fish here of course you know what I'm thinking hum maybe just one yes just one...Polly!
Those are great names! I especially love Manheim and Boris. Now you need at least one tank, Polly! One or two! No more than three or five!
@@CichlidCharmer Glad you like the names, OK I got rid of the tanks because of all the work but now my house is empty and quiet (I always thought I had silent set ups), so no more, well maybe, but nope well........
Ferc II for the win!
Excellent choice!
Could be a Taiwan Empress I’ve seen them look similar but it’s definitely has some red empress like you said So fluent with the names man. Great job 🙏 …edit didn’t see someone had already suggested that🤘
I sure didn’t order a hybrid, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get one 😆. Thank you!!
@@CichlidCharmer haha probably just the subdominant then. They likely wouldn’t have gotten an opportunity for that to happen at a reputable breeder like you probably ordered from🤘
@@Parkbenchaquatics he actually did come from a good source, so probably like you said - subdominant.
What is it you feed these guys to get such stunning colours??
Thank you for asking! Watch this: What, When & How to FEED AFRICAN CICHLIDS (Peacocks & Haps) | Color BOOST!
th-cam.com/video/-eLM-q-Q1oY/w-d-xo.html
And I also feed Ron’s Cichlid food now.
@CichlidCharmer Thanks for the info. Will try the mixing. I am new to Ciclids and mine are just small (1-2"). Looking forward to them colouring up!
The Dolphins are always one of my favourites when I'm looking at african cichlids, what would be the minimum tank size in your opinion to keep a single specimen? Thanks
Hi there! Do you mean a single dolphin alone in one tank?
@@CichlidCharmer yep!
@@MakoyUnggoy they get about ten inches so I suppose you could do a single in a 75. I would like a few more feet of swimming room side to side if it were me. I’m that way though. I didn’t get an Oscar for my 180 because I thought he should have more room side to side.
Love your aquarium, what breeders do you get your fish from?
Thank you! The best ones I’ve used are Snake River Cichlids and Imperial Tropicals. If you really want the best, I’ve heard that Ron’s Cichlids and Andre Pitre are fantastic. Andre is on fb.
Thanks for the reply, that borleyi is perfect. Can I ask where you got him? Thx
I’ve ordered about 10 from Ron’s Cichlids 🔥one of best around
@@TuggerrrNutzz Pricey, but worth it from what I hear.
@@Phil-fx7yzsorry I missed this. I bought the red fin borleyi from Snake River Cichlids.
Hello
Would you recommend mixing males and females peacock cichlids?
You can but you have to take a lot of things into consideration. You have to have enough space for them and you need a certain amount of females to every male. The males will certainly be very colorful if you breed them correctly.
Even on Google, it's quite difficult to identify a certain cichlid i have. I still dont know. Any recommendations on a good source to use?
It can be tough. Google fish ID all African Cichlids. That pulled some good poster type displays.
From how many years ur having this fishs and may i know wat is ur tank sizes
I e had fish off and on since I was a kid. These Africans I’m going on three years. This video will tell you all about the tanks: FULL TOUR -- Home & 5 TANKS
th-cam.com/video/YQZyrqQcEHc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for asking!
Red Empress looks like sunset variety?
It wasn’t specified that it was.
If you can’t say anything constructive, grow a brain.
17:20 is a red empress OB
Yes!!! You’re good. Really good. Thank you!
Lithobates eill still color up im thinking
Your deep water hap is actually a star sapphire
He’s pretty old… over a year. You really think so? I would expect some speckles. He does look a lot like my sapphire though!
@CichlidCharmer deep water haps are very light blue with some pearlescent hint to them. Gissel black face haps look similar to deep water haps but much darker blue. But you definitely have a star sapphire that is starting to chip. They're slow growers though so it might take a little bit but i see at speckles on yours already. My guess is yours is about 2 yrs old.
@CichlidCharmer my buddy breeds star sapphires and i got one from him, slight smaller than yours.
@@damson2809 well I appreciate your help! I didn’t even consider the sapphire since I had no idea it can take years to chip!
Some red empresses need a lady and dark substrate.
Possibly a Red Empress/Taiwan reef hybrid
Perhaps!
my borleyi red fin didn’t like my yellow fin (namalenje😢)
Hey what website do you use to buy your fish?
Good question. Mostly Imperial Tropicals and Snake River Cichlids.
Thank you, and btw how many cichlids can I fit in a 75 gall for over stock
@@MiniMonsters508 well really as many as you want as long as the filtration and water changes can keep the water clean and healthy. HOWEVER, I highly discourage this. A 75 is a pretty small tank for these guys and they love lots of free swimming room. Check out this video where I talk about this: HOW MANY African Cichlids Should You Have in YOUR TANK? | Stocking Guide
th-cam.com/video/r2rlEfM39x4/w-d-xo.html
These specimen are amazing !!!!
I am definitely going to figure o it a cool name for your Red Fin !!!
Thank you, and please do!
hey maybe you can name the red fin borleyi killer after my dead orange mbuna cichlid if you do that its appreciated
and if you don't name him that its fine but 1st comment :D pin pls maybe idk? but yea can u please name him / her killer for male or killet for female and it can be killer as for killer looks because he looks amazing and can you name the smaller electric blue azil casper after my albino mbuna who got eaten :(
That sounds like a great name! Definitely considering it, Hector!
Aka as red kadango
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@@Miggswaggermansfishes yessir
Which company sent you the female and wrong species. Does it rhyme with schmampa ray pichlids?
😂😂😂😂 omg that is funny! It was actually an extra - everyone else was perfect so no problem. It wasn’t who you think it was, but a good company.
vikings used to farm Greenland .... climate change and all.... united kingdom also was able to grow citrus in the past... guess it used to be warmer
Illegitimate Child looks to be a Tangerine Tiger
I appreciate that! His daddy was an OB.
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Thanks!
Steve Holtz from arrested development
Well done, Luis. Well done.
Where are you from btw ?
Idaho
The one eyed unamed fish should be named count bisbing after the one eyed ufc fighter
Good name. I’d never remember it though 🤔
Spock's a good name.
Thank you! One of my favorite characters and my guy has stars on him, so… 🤩
Thanks! I kept fish for years (stoneage 70 n 80s). Worked in petshops as a teen. But I'm alitte rusty. I've got a community tank with 3angels . I'm trying to figure out what I can put with them. (They beat up my Bettas and my guppies are almost gone!). Any African cichlids that could get along with them????
@@CichlidCharmer I'm a trekkie too.
@@QE1beth FINALLY! You're the only one who's admitted it so far 🤭
@@QE1beth African cichlids would destroy your angels. I would look at some geophagus cichlids. Depending on the size of your tank, some smaller ones like my red headed tapajos would work. If you have a large tank of six feet in length or more you could start looking at some other geophagus options.
Here's mine:
Vc10
Venustus
Red fin ob borleyi
Red fin borleyi
Z rock
Ob fryeri
Electric fryeri
Eureka Jake
Otterpoint Jake
Star sapphire
Deep water hap
Red shoulder
Dragon blood ob
Lemon Jake
Canary yellow ob
Chitimba peacock
Ob red empress
Albino red empress
Ndiwe fire hap
Taiwan reef
Albino Turkish
Blue neon peacock
Super red albino peacock
Lawanda peacock
All in 125 gallon
That’s a great selection! I always wanted a turkis, but never in stock. How’s that otter point? Is he a terror?
@@CichlidCharmer my otterpoint almost looks like my lemon Jake. But top dorsal is slightly different in pattern and rest of the fins as well. Picture a yellow eureka, but yellow not that bright. But the fins are so long he's great.
And I have the albino Turkis and he's gotten pretty big. One of my first guys in my original 55 gallon. Almost looks like a benga sunshine peacock.
@@CichlidCharmer wish I could show you the tank
@@CichlidCharmer my venustus has really been popping the blue alot more since being in the 125. The vc10 has been popping more blue little by little.
@@dennispeleg7843 Two beautiful fish, it sounds like
Boris
Are these all males? That's what you're supposed to with African Cichlids right? Have a male only tank because they're aggressive towards females?
After watching the entire video I know the answer.
Also you have no females so lithibates might be waiting for a lady.
Love your aquarium, what breeders do you get your fish from?
Sorry I thought I answered this. I’ve had good fortune with Snake River and Imperial Tropicals. I’ve heard good things about Ron’s cichlids and Ivan Pitre on fb.