5 Great Cichlids for Community Tanks and 5 to Avoid
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hi All,
Today I wanted to help out beginner fishkeepers out there to avoid 5 of the worst, most terrible community cichlids that beginners buy and instead offer up 5 alternative cichlids that will work out great.
Hope this helps!
Enjoy!
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Apistogramma
1:34 Convict Cichlids
2:11 Angelfish
2:58 Mbuna
3:53 Bolivian Rams
4:53 Jaguar Cichlid
5:38 Blue Acara
6:29 Jewel Cichlid
7:32 Kribensis
8:45 Flowerhorns
9:37 Additional Tips and Tricks
11:04 Outro
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I would also add Keyhole cichlids as Great Community tank cichlids, very docile and very charming :)
Keyholes are super friendly and will greet you at the front of the tank, with that being said when they pair off things can get hairy. my male keyhole killed another female that he wasnt paired off with. when talking about cichlids I find it important to keep in mind that we're talking about nice for a cichlid, not a guppy or tetra. cichlid nice is still pretty rough by other fish's standards
Great vid mate! Would love to see more vids like this!
great video mate. Shot very well with some great footage. Thanks mate
Hey Blake! Lovely video! Hope you have a great weekend!
Excellent video. Bolivian ram is one of my favourites and a great alternative.
Great info! Thank you!
Very good video as always. 👍😊
To your point about Apistogramma, my single male Apistogramma Trifasciata gets along perfectly in my community tank with Green Neon Tetras and Corey Cats! Great video! Thanks!
I have 2 Bolivian Rams, 1 Electric Blue Acara, 1 Krib and 1 Angelfish in my 65 gallon community tank. They are a good part of the community and pretty peaceful .
I have a 40 gallon breeder tank and wanted to stock it with 1 Electric Blue Acara , 2 Bolivian Rams , and 5-6 Tiger Barbs. Do you think this would work?
more tiger barbs, small schools are really nippy@@MrSeshs
Great informative video Blake!
Thanks mate
I've always been big fan of having angels and rams as center piece and then getting some tetras and bnp/ottos/catfish to create a nice south American tank
This is a perfect video, thanks sir
Awesome video 👍👍
Love it!!
Thanks Blake that was very informative and useful never imagined such a thing as a jaguar cichlid, they look like they mean business
Glad it was helpful!
Love my neon blue acara - So personable. Comes up and says hello every time I come up to my tank. Gets along with all the other tank mates. LOVE THIS FISH. (thanks for that idea)
I love my acara too. Just a guts and I need to be careful my clown loaches get a feed of the treats
Other peaceful cichlids to consider in a community tank, are severum 8in, maroni 4.5in, festivum 4.5in, discus 7in, guianacara 4in and blue dempsey 6in. Just one per community tank
Someone in my area bred WAY too many convicts because every store near me had a tank full of them.
I asked an employee and she said that a guy came in with a 5g bucket full of them, left it in the fish area, and walked out.
🤣 thats crazy
Does that count as generosity, or littering?
The stores won’t buy them lol
great vid
I have a fully planted aquarium, my maintenance is cleaning the filter ones or twice a year and the "prefilter" on the intake when ones every other month. I mostly only top off water level and only do water changes when parameters are rising or to get rid of tannins.
Hi Blake what about the Princess Chiclid just like the look of them Thx mate
Great video thanks-can you keep different types of cichlids from this list together? Like Blue Acara and Kribs/Bolivian Rams?
I prefer not to but many do
@@BlakesAquatics thanks!
I've got a pair of Bolivian Rams and a pair of Super Red Viejita Apistos, along with some dwarf neon rainbowfish, Honey and Thick-lipped gouramis, tetras, corys, and even amano and cherry shrimp. Everyone seems to get on fine (though its heavily planted and lots of rock and bogwood hardscape so loads of places to hide).
Did your Bolivian rams eat ur cherry shrimp because I wanna get the rams so bad but the only thing stopping me is the chance that they would eat shrimp
Hey man i love the video! Quick question can i keep a single angelfish in a 40 breeder?
Sure can 👍
It still blows my mind that jewel cichlids are a species of African cichlid I just found that out a few years ago I grew up with them and I always thought they were South American because I only ever seen them with South American and Central American cichlids💯
Good thing they’re from Western Africa. The conditions there are comparable to Central and South America as opposed to the Rift Lakes. I recently found out there’s a green version of the jewel cichlids, never seen them in aquariums. Only greenish I seen are the 5 star general cichlids which are west African and part of the jewel family. If you ever want a jewel for a community, the least aggressive of the jewels are the Turkana ones. I got 1 in my 75 Gallon with Blue Acaras, Roseline Sharks and Some Cichlasoma species. So far so good
I have a 90 liters (dunno how many gallons) planned especially for Ramirezi with schooling little friendly fish (Ember Tetra) and Corydoras panda, well one day a couple was creating a nest in the sand (or at leat i think it was, a hole), one unlucky and incautios Corydoras panda swam too much near it and they killed it, poor fish, they can be territorial too, greetings from Italy
My krib RIP was nippy asf but not a complete terror. Replaced him with a marlieri julie.
Great vid. You don't mention keyhole cichlids , which are a great beginner cichlid. In a community tank, is it better to have a couple of females with each male apistogramma? A lot of the breeding projects with apistos on the net seem to show only a pair.
I've kept kribensis in community tank. They are peaceful when not spawning.
Be wary when they have fry - when the fry go for day trips around the tank (with parents escorting) the parents will batter anything that gets near them.
So true
Everyone misses a really great cichlid for community tanks even down to a 10 gallon the Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis (T-bar) is a sweet little fellow only gets 1.5 - 2 inches and have a really sweet disposition. Small and nice enough to even live with neons and similar sized fish.
Sure but good luck ever finding them. At least in Australia where I am im sure they arent even in the country.
@@BlakesAquatics Very true I lucked out recently and my LFS had them. He was selling them as unknown apistogramma. Sometimes they come in with shipments of 'normal' apistos. If you ever luck into seeing one at a store grab it, they are the most laid-back cichlid I have ever seen.
What is that fish on the right hand side near the plant pot when your showing the blue Acara?
The less blue one? Also an acara just not a neon blue acara.
What other cichlids can you keep with a pair of apistogramma nijsseni (dwarf panda cichlid male and female) please?
Hey Blake, I just recently removed some koi from my fish tank cause my father thought it was good idea to put them in my planted community tank for some reason. Which allow them to almost completely destroy all my plants while bullying all my smaller fish to the back of the tank while also consuming some of the small fish I had before. I want to know should I consider getting some angel fish for my 75-gallon tank if I still have a Vampire Shrimp and I am planning to add in Orange Dwarf Crayfish? Or it's a bad idea due to possible issues of the Angel Fish wanting to eat either one.
Crayfish will shred up plants so you know. Angels are great in a 75 but the other stocking ideas could be problematic
I never really thought much about Cichlids in community tanks maybe just because I always assumed they were all aggressive or I had fish or shrimp or snails that would likely get eaten by 90% of Cichlids.
100% of cichlids will eat those things
I've got 2 f bolivian rams with nerite snails and a bamboo shrimp, balloon mollies, black tetras and reasporas. The rams 99% ignore all of them, except one female bullys the second ram. That same ram will chase the bigger mollie away from cichlid pellets. Otherwise, no issue.
One you missed ... Anomalochromis thomasi from West Africa. This is as close to a "pacifist" Cichlid as you will find anywhere. Lovely breeding colours, and aren't even bad tempered when breeding.
Next up - Laetacara curviceps. A small and peaceful South Amercian that *really* deserves to be far more widely available.
And, if your community tank consists of larger fish (e.g., Denison's Barbs, Congo Tetras, Clown Barbs or some of the 6 inch Rasboras), then Keyhole Cichlids are a good choice.
Good call x3 👍
i have a dwarf blue panda apisto and its so peaceful. dosent bother any other fish or plants
Can u keep more than I cichlid in the same tank example Apistogramma and a Bolivian and maybe a dwarf cichlid or angel
Its possible, I currently have a black ram, apisto co existing, the first week was a battle between the 2 but now the apisto is the alpha and not fighting between them. They are thriving now im just wondering if a pair of kirbensis can live with them
Hey Blake know I'm late to the party and you might not see this message, but looking for one more fish to add to the tank. Have a 24 gallon tank with 12 pygmy corys 12 neon tetras and a starlight bristle nose pleco. Pretty new to the aquarium world but loving it and really want to add the one last fish in since my planted aquarium can take it with its filter. thank you for any help. Looking right now at a agasizzi black ram and a koi betta but still have nightmares I will wake up if I get one of them and half my fish will be gobbled up or hating their lives since it's very peaceful right now
Koi betta would be a nice touch. Seems you want something a bit bigger as a centrepiece. Id skip the ram maybe an apisto borellii
I will be rehoming my pair of Kribensis this week. I've tried to keep them in an 35 gallons community tank, but they bully my 11 cory duplicareus...and anything that bully my corys goes bye bye.🧐
Fair enough 👍
What if a flowerhorn pops? Could it survive?
Hi. Do Bolivian Rams suit community tanks with tiny fish like Guppies or would they eat them?
They will probably eat male and juvenile guppies
@@BlakesAquatics oh darn. They are so pretty. Thanks for the reply though 😄
What size tank is good for a Apistogramma i only have a 10g tank can you help me with this
15G minimum for a pair. You could maybe do a solo fish in the 10
Can black and German Rams be in the same tank??
Yeah theyre the same species just a diffeent colour variant
Is there any apistogramma I can add in a 15 gallon community tank? Just one male
Yeah plenty. Borellii and agasizzii are 2 good options
Is it possible to keep Apistos or Kribs with albino corydora?
Corys are little known enemies of apistos. In the wild cories always raid apisto eggs. I prefer to have only 1 type of bottom dweller
@@BlakesAquatics darn I keep finding fish I love and they are all bottom dwellers haha. I already have the cory’s and am upgrading my tank size for them. Really wanted some Apisto’s or Krib’s. The search continues for a centerpiece fish! Thank you for the reply.
My experience is angelfish are like bettas They are aggressive but they’re only aggressive towards their own kind They’re just not as aggressive towards their own kind as bettas are💯
They killed my brother his German ram cichlid @angelfish
Can you keep comet goldfish with a blue acara?
No acara will shred goldfish fins
😂if I were a cichlids without my morning coffee… I’d probly be something like a red devil amphilophus labiatus .☕️☕️☕️= peaceful community!
Me too 🤣
I love parachromis but it’s just not worth rolling the dice😂
Fair 😅