African cichlids driving you insane with their aggressive attitudes? Have you successfully dealt with them to turn them around? What was your trick? Share it with us!
Great video and info. I have 9 in a 66 gal tank. So far so good. Just a little chasing going on. But no big fights yet. A question I do have when I see you tanks. Is what’s the brightness set at on your tanks? I have the Fluval 3.0 plant light on my 2 66gal tanks. Just curious on how you set up your lighting. Thanks
Thank you! Right now I have my Fluval Sea Marine 3.0 set as this: Red 28 Cyan 2 Blue 0 Purple 0 White 8 I don’t need to worry about keeping plants happy though
@@CichlidCharmer Thanks. I’ll give those settings a try. I don’t have plants either. It’s my first Peacock tank. Wish I had a bigger tank. But I’ll feed them well and spoil them the best I can to keep them happy! Cheers
@@CichlidCharmer I tried those light settings. I didn’t have the exact colours as you. But I was close. Seems pretty low. But I like it. I can see it being good for the fish. I also have no plants. But I do have a super red bushy nose pleco in with them. So some algae would be good. I have 9 Peacocks and I’m waiting on a Green Face to top it off at 10. Yes I like my fish and I treat them well. 👍
@@brett_Thorpe that sounds great. So if I want it a little brighter or darker, I just adjust the white by a few percentage points. It doesn’t take much to make a difference
Great learning from you about Chichild, I have a 4/2/2 feet tank with fzone dual inlet cannister but you have clear water, any suggestions or please make a video on how to keep the inlet and outlet and the filter mdeia used and regular practices for cristal clear water like you. I appretiate your help, Thanks.
Thanks! Yes, I have a video on clear water. I am making another with more tips hopefully next weekend. 5 Ways to Get CRYSTAL CLEAR Aquarium Water! th-cam.com/video/oJvnXXVaegk/w-d-xo.html
all i can say you have ALCATRAZ I HAVE ATTICA AND ANGOLA THE WORSE PRISONS IN THE COUNTRY SIX ANGELS THAT ARE BY NOMEANS ANGELS HAD TO SEPERATE ALL OF THEM MBUNA WIRES ARE NOT ATTACHED NO DEATHS BUT ALWAYS BUSY , I LOVE UM YOUR SHOW IS GREAT KEEP EM COMING
Really good tips your the best! I use 2 wave makers. I also use something that I call cichlids sick bays. Although aesthetically unpleasing, it’s a suction cup attached to a 3 inch wide PVC pipe about 6 inch and use zip ties to secure it right at the water line During a chase, the fish being chased goes into it and can turn around but the other fish can’t follow. And won’t. I love it because it keeps my bottom free and nobody tries to claim it as territory because it’s not on the bottom and it’s for everybody to use when feeling vulnerable
Hey, I would love to use some video from your tank with the pipes at the top in my next aggression video. Would you be up for sending some video to me? I would credit you however you’d like to be credited in the video
@@CichlidCharmer yeah I could do that. A shout out would be cool considering I’m a fan but I’m honored I’ll post a video on my feed ….. I posted a 45 second video for you to use that should be helpful… can’t wait four the video!
I stopped my malawi cichlid aggression by rehoming them.. all of them.. 4 years with them and it never failed someone had to own half the tank cuz he wanted to breed, even in an all male tank. I tried all the tips here, a lot of people think overstocking is the key. At one point I had 70 peacocks and haps in a 125, no luck. My mother has a 55gal with like 18 or so, and she doesn’t have this problem. Her trick?.. bad water quality lol. Her nitrates are high, and she feels that’s the key for her. I couldn’t get myself to let my tank go like that. I’ve pretty much had 1-4 frontosa in my set up at any given moment. I’ve replaced all my malawis with small baby frontosa and some petricolas. Will be interesting to see if I have the same issue with them as they get older. Sorry for wall of text! Beautiful tank 😅 cheers🍻
I feel you. I thought everything was great, no aggression worth noting for a year. Then some guys matured and it all went to crap. Still trying things. As you know I don’t believe overstocking is the key. I kind of feel badly for them. They are stuffed in a small box with nowhere to swim off to when things get bad. Maybe owning African peas and haps isn’t such a nice thing to do. Maybe I will do a video on that idea and see what people have to say. Meanwhile I still have mine, but they drive me crazy 🤪
@@CichlidCharmer I’m not sure what the key is, but I couldn’t keep one fish from wanting to breed 350/365 days of the year so I’m trying a different route and appreciating those who manage to pull it off as I personally got sick of seeing it lol.
i have one of the African cichlid female she have been alone for a ear and i want to breed her but i am scared because she is so aggressive ,she eat 2 of my big gold fish in the same day so i live her alone intel know for abut a ear 🥲
Nice! With that size you’re limited to the smaller ones. Fortunately there are some really cool small cichlids. Look up shell dwellers and apistos. She’ll dwellers are not so beautiful, but very interesting to watch and they breed like rabbits. The apistos are absolutely gorgeous! I don’t have any experience with them except what I’ve seen on TH-cam videos, so I couldn’t really say how many. I wouldn’t buy too many shell dwellers though. All you need is a male and female and you’ll have a full tank in no time
@@CichlidCharmer Thank you so much, I don't have any plans of breeding but, I was thinking of Mbuna and some peacock chichlids.. if I have to keep those How many are good?
@@CichlidCharmer thank you! Suppose, If I buy 2 inch chichlids, then how much time it takes to grow it fully? So that I can plan for bigger tank that point of time..
@@anandkajave8643 some grow more quickly than others. I think my smaller ones took a little less than a year to max out size. I would suggest waiting until you actually have the larger tank, since things can happen and it might get delayed or not happen. Up to you of course
Hey thank you! My regular feedings are a mix of different sized north fin cichlid pellets, north fin veggie pellets, and Xtreme cichlid pellets, all soaked in garlic guard, vita chem, and seachem nourish. I also usually feed krill and zucchini once per week.
African cichlids driving you insane with their aggressive attitudes? Have you successfully dealt with them to turn them around? What was your trick? Share it with us!
Beautiful tank 🤙
Thanks!
If my wife rearrange the house when i got back i think i could argue that it would raise aggression lol
This is going to help a lot when my cichlids grow up! They are babies right now so there’s not much aggression.
Oh right - they are waiting to unleash their craziness on you. Happy fishkeeping!
@@CichlidCharmer oh boy
Great video and info. I have 9 in a 66 gal tank. So far so good. Just a little chasing going on. But no big fights yet. A question I do have when I see you tanks. Is what’s the brightness set at on your tanks? I have the Fluval 3.0 plant light on my 2 66gal tanks. Just curious on how you set up your lighting. Thanks
Thank you! Right now I have my Fluval Sea Marine 3.0 set as this:
Red 28
Cyan 2
Blue 0
Purple 0
White 8
I don’t need to worry about keeping plants happy though
@@CichlidCharmer Thanks. I’ll give those settings a try. I don’t have plants either. It’s my first Peacock tank. Wish I had a bigger tank. But I’ll feed them well and spoil them the best I can to keep them happy! Cheers
@@brett_Thorpe you’re ver welcome. Have fun with them. You sound like a great fish dad
@@CichlidCharmer I tried those light settings. I didn’t have the exact colours as you. But I was close. Seems pretty low. But I like it. I can see it being good for the fish. I also have no plants. But I do have a super red bushy nose pleco in with them. So some algae would be good. I have 9 Peacocks and I’m waiting on a Green Face to top it off at 10. Yes I like my fish and I treat them well. 👍
@@brett_Thorpe that sounds great. So if I want it a little brighter or darker, I just adjust the white by a few percentage points. It doesn’t take much to make a difference
Great learning from you about Chichild, I have a 4/2/2 feet tank with fzone dual inlet cannister but you have clear water, any suggestions or please make a video on how to keep the inlet and outlet and the filter mdeia used and regular practices for cristal clear water like you. I appretiate your help, Thanks.
Thanks! Yes, I have a video on clear water. I am making another with more tips hopefully next weekend. 5 Ways to Get CRYSTAL CLEAR Aquarium Water!
th-cam.com/video/oJvnXXVaegk/w-d-xo.html
I love this tank and the fish. How many gallons is this tank. It it acrylic? Thanks
Thank you. It’s 8x2x2, 240 gallons. And it is acrylic.
Thanks!!
all i can say you have ALCATRAZ I HAVE ATTICA AND ANGOLA THE WORSE PRISONS IN THE COUNTRY
SIX ANGELS THAT ARE BY NOMEANS ANGELS HAD TO SEPERATE ALL OF THEM MBUNA WIRES ARE NOT ATTACHED NO DEATHS BUT ALWAYS BUSY , I LOVE UM YOUR SHOW IS GREAT KEEP EM COMING
Those are great names! lol. Thank you!
Really good tips your the best! I use 2 wave makers. I also use something that I call cichlids sick bays. Although aesthetically unpleasing, it’s a suction cup attached to a 3 inch wide PVC pipe about 6 inch and use zip ties to secure it right at the water line During a chase, the fish being chased goes into it and can turn around but the other fish can’t follow. And won’t. I love it because it keeps my bottom free and nobody tries to claim it as territory because it’s not on the bottom and it’s for everybody to use when feeling vulnerable
Those are such great ideas! I use the wavemakers, but the getaway pipes sound awesome! Thanks for sharing it.
Hey, I would love to use some video from your tank with the pipes at the top in my next aggression video. Would you be up for sending some video to me? I would credit you however you’d like to be credited in the video
@@CichlidCharmer yeah I could do that. A shout out would be cool considering I’m a fan but I’m honored I’ll post a video on my feed
….. I posted a 45 second video for you to use that should be helpful… can’t wait four the video!
@@Parkbenchaquatics thanks! If you can do 4k that would be appreciated. It should be okay if you can’t.
@@CichlidCharmer sure thing
I stopped my malawi cichlid aggression by rehoming them.. all of them.. 4 years with them and it never failed someone had to own half the tank cuz he wanted to breed, even in an all male tank. I tried all the tips here, a lot of people think overstocking is the key. At one point I had 70 peacocks and haps in a 125, no luck.
My mother has a 55gal with like 18 or so, and she doesn’t have this problem. Her trick?.. bad water quality lol. Her nitrates are high, and she feels that’s the key for her. I couldn’t get myself to let my tank go like that.
I’ve pretty much had 1-4 frontosa in my set up at any given moment. I’ve replaced all my malawis with small baby frontosa and some petricolas. Will be interesting to see if I have the same issue with them as they get older.
Sorry for wall of text! Beautiful tank 😅 cheers🍻
I feel you. I thought everything was great, no aggression worth noting for a year. Then some guys matured and it all went to crap. Still trying things. As you know I don’t believe overstocking is the key. I kind of feel badly for them. They are stuffed in a small box with nowhere to swim off to when things get bad. Maybe owning African peas and haps isn’t such a nice thing to do. Maybe I will do a video on that idea and see what people have to say. Meanwhile I still have mine, but they drive me crazy 🤪
@@CichlidCharmer I’m not sure what the key is, but I couldn’t keep one fish from wanting to breed 350/365 days of the year so I’m trying a different route and appreciating those who manage to pull it off as I personally got sick of seeing it lol.
@@robertjohnston25 understood!
i have one of the African cichlid female she have been alone for a ear and i want to breed her but i am scared because she is so aggressive ,she eat 2 of my big gold fish in the same day so i live her alone intel know for abut a ear 🥲
She would probably be more receptive to a male of her species. Gold fish aren’t a good match for African cichlids.
Rip whoever adopts the crazy fish you returned to your LFS XD
Lol, sometimes a new tank with new fish is all they need to get in touch with their best versions of themselves
Great info, great thumbnail, great structure for the video, the voice over sounds scripted though.
Thanks for the feedback. I will have to try to sound more natural. Always trying to improve.
What size is Zeke and what's his max potential?
Good question! Zeke is about 6" and that's all he'll ever be. They're not a huge fish.
I have 40 breeder, and want to keep chichlids. What do you suggest? What types of chichlids and how many?
Nice! With that size you’re limited to the smaller ones. Fortunately there are some really cool small cichlids. Look up shell dwellers and apistos. She’ll dwellers are not so beautiful, but very interesting to watch and they breed like rabbits. The apistos are absolutely gorgeous! I don’t have any experience with them except what I’ve seen on TH-cam videos, so I couldn’t really say how many. I wouldn’t buy too many shell dwellers though. All you need is a male and female and you’ll have a full tank in no time
@@CichlidCharmer Thank you so much, I don't have any plans of breeding but, I was thinking of Mbuna and some peacock chichlids.. if I have to keep those How many are good?
@@anandkajave8643 I wouldn’t keep mbuna or peacocks in a 40. They need a lot more room than that
@@CichlidCharmer thank you! Suppose, If I buy 2 inch chichlids, then how much time it takes to grow it fully? So that I can plan for bigger tank that point of time..
@@anandkajave8643 some grow more quickly than others. I think my smaller ones took a little less than a year to max out size. I would suggest waiting until you actually have the larger tank, since things can happen and it might get delayed or not happen. Up to you of course
I have never had success with the time out method. Usually, I end up taking the savage to my local pet shop 😢
I hear that. They usually eventually remember that they are savages 😆
What do you feed your fish? They’re beautiful!
Hey thank you! My regular feedings are a mix of different sized north fin cichlid pellets, north fin veggie pellets, and Xtreme cichlid pellets, all soaked in garlic guard, vita chem, and seachem nourish. I also usually feed krill and zucchini once per week.
Very slim chances your fish were injured due to the rocks FYI
Why do you say so?