I'm not new to fish keeping, but I am new to keeping Cichlids. I broke down and got myself a 90g, (finally a big boy tank!), and this video is very, very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you for doing this list. I have a 125 gal community tank with angels mainly and all types of tetras. I recently had to add Blood Parrots because I had them with mbunas and peacocks and they were getting bullied. Thankfully they have acted just perfect in my community tank, eating and swimming, minding their own business. I don’t say they will work in all community tanks but they do just perfect in mine. To finish my tank I wanted to get some blue acaras but I wasn’t sure if they were too agressive. Thanks for the video 🙂
Recently caught onto this channel. Subbed for the great content! Kinda makes me now want to finagle some space alongside my African tanks to set up a South American community.
I have to say my favorite fish at the moment - the Thomasi Cichlid (Anomalochromis thomasi). The thomasi is an amazing cichlid from West Africa with great personality and stunning colors. They stay relatively small and are definitely one of the most peaceful cichlids i've ever kept. They also go great in a planted aquarium and work well in a community. I've also found that they are one of the few cichlids that prefer to be in a group and they almost school together in a larger tank. I highly recommend them to any fish keeper, even beginners as they are very hardy aswell! :)
A Jack Dempsey! Most think of them as very aggressive but in the right setup they can be very relaxed and passive. I love watching my Dempsey interact with my plecos too, he’s always interested in them. That’s my choice!
Definitely a debatable one! We have two Dempsey’s currently. “Jack” is older and very docile, while his son “Jack Jr” is very aggressive. Awesome fish to keep either way!
their temperament varies. mine lives with an acara, catfish and a gold gourami just fine and previously lived with some rainbowfish. hated a jewel cichlid though. thing with a lot of fish is that their attitude varies heavily on the tank size, setup, numbers and personality
Hey cichlid bros, old video I know but I just got into your guys channel and love it. I just setup a tank inspired by you guys and I've had luck with a starry night... or aka paratilapia polleni..
I agree with your choices 100%. I would also add the Cupid cichlid. It is a good choice for a community cichlid aquarium. You mentioned the electric blue acara and I agree but the regular Blue Acara is also a nice choice. My profile pic is of one I have kept.
Do you think red fin coryli (spell?) and green terror would fit in with Severum, Oscar, king parrots, silver dollar, I have 125 gallon tank and I’m fairly new to this. Love these two fish. Had a coryli but ich took him down few months ago. Rest of community survived and are thriving now. Great video 🙏
I have a 75 gal with a pair of Kribs, A pair of Electric blue Acara, fully grown gold severum (hes a giant), half sized Green Severum and 2 leopard Bushfish, they all live pretty happily. I personally think the Bushfish are extremely underrated becoming one of my favorites. i wouldn't put baby fish in the tank with them but that's with most Cichlids. they're awesome to watch during feeding time as they dart around for the food. other then that they are like standing statues most of the time you'll see them in odd areas in weird poses, it's quite fun to try to find them and see how they are posing today!
You did great work on the species profiles and the video was very enjoyable to watch as you knew what you wanted to say. Well done on both the info and the editing. Oh, and the Geophagus fish are something of attention hogs, they kept jumping into the video at every opportunity. Cool fish....
Nice list, tho my experience of the lovable Rainbow cichlid has been entirely different... boisterous brute of a fish. Mines is 6 now and has been in every tank i have😂long live the rainbows👌👍💚
another rather peaceful cichlid is the Chocolate cichlid. One of my easiest STRESS Free tanks is a 280 gallon tank with 4 uaru 4 Panda uaru 4 chocolate, 4 severums and 4 vieja regani
I had an oscar with a green severum in a 55 back in the 90s when that seemed like a huge tank. Both were teddy bears and never acted out at all. Considering a reboot with Angel's and a geo tapajo with Congo tetras.
You guys need to look into the tanganyikan cichlids more. There are a lot of really cool smaller cichlids from that lake like different julidochromis species or caudopunctatus, that stay small and kind of just keep to themselves and the little territory that they stake out in the aquarium.
I keep my severum with an uaru of the same size! They fight a bit at first but after that, They seem to team up and conquer the whole community tank :) nothing hazardous to other fish but they hog the vegetables
Do you think severums would be ok in a aquarium with very hard water we have to use a water softner at my home but I can turn it off for aquarium use. out of the tap my ph is already between a 7.6 to 7.8 want to set up a 125 trying to find fish that will do well with my hard water.
Hello Cichlids bros. I am starting a new tank. I am working with a 75 gallon tank. I have had oscars before. So, I thought to have an oscar, red severum, chocolate severum and a pleco. I think that could work but I am not sure. Now that I just watched your video of the 10 cichlids you could put in a tank. I want to ask could If I didn't go the direction of the oscars. If I decided to use some of your selection, excluding the disc. Could the rest you offered all fit in my 75 gallon. Maybe 7 -9 different cichlids based on size they will get and bio load. Thanks for any help you can offer. Kenny G.
What is the PH should you keep your tank at when you keep the Ram in and what size tank should you keep the Blue Ram in I got a 10g tank and I like to get me some Blue Ram and what can you keep them with can you help me with this
Awesome community cichlids list. Gold saum is also a good keep in a cich community tank. I have 4 of them with green severums. More power cichlid bros! Hfk
I have a community tank , with 3 Severums,6 Silver Dollars, 4 baby parrots, 1 baby Bella Shark, 3 clown louches , and of course 1 algae eater… another 125 with 15 baby yellow Labs and another 210 that has 2 1 yr old Piranhas that I’m trying to find a home for, because I want to turn it into a Severums Tank…..can you help me find these Severums?
If your local fish stores don’t have any, ordering online is a good option. Imperial Tropicals, tangled up in cichlids, and the Cichlid Shack are a few places I’ve had good experiences with
@@CichlidBros thank you very much I’ll let you know how it all turns out , however I never ordered online for my fish but I’m going to take your advice 🤗 Because I believe you know & have the experience and knowledge of theses fish.
See as much as I like this, my idea of a "community" are things like cichlid or higher end semi-agressive community tanks. As much as I live tetras and trust me I do but I just don't do mixed community tanks of non agressive fish anymore. My closest tank to that is a 150 planted tank with around 130 Cardinals, 30ish oto cats, a blue phantom pleco, 10 khuili loaches and that's it. Not much of a community as there's really no interaction. Just my Cardinals, a bunch of cleaners and one centerpiece fish in my phantom pleco
Oh ya i figured that ur two acaras are female and male. They only do the pushing on rock thing when preparing for a breeding spot. You should put them back together, expect some drama but hopefully you'll get fry out of it.
Geophagus Tapajos isn't a fish, the redheaded tapajos is the common name of the Steindachneri, I was able to find one site that was selling Geophagus Parnaibae as the red headed tapajos. But 9/10 times the Tapajos name is refering to the Steindachneri.
@@noahthorin2476 Yeah there is a lot of incorrect information out there, especially with Geophagus classification. Tapajos, Steindachneri and Parnaibae are three separate species. Tapajos have the common name of Red Head Tapajos, while the Steindachneri has a common name of Red Hump Eartheater. The Steindachneri males get a nice sized nuchal hump and the species stays more tan/yellow than the Tapajos (also a bit more aggressive). The Parnaibae is separate from both, but get far less red coloration and is less common in the hobby
I know that fish classification is a mess but I for whatever reason have not been able to find any formal literature for an actual tapajos species, but thanks.
Love this list, a definite save for me! I love them all and own a bunch on your list! My favorite is the Severum!
Awesome! Thank you 👍🏻
Severums are definitely one of my favorites!
Fantastic video! I've been thinking of starting a cichlid community and this video has been my savior.
Awesome, glad this helps!
Thanks for the awesome advice for Community tank. 👍
No problem. Thanks for watching!
South American Cichlids and Discus are my favourite fish for keeping in my place.😊🐟
Great list 😃 I got some Shell dwellers uploading the video tonight 😊
Great list I guess I’m on par because I own more than half the list yayyyyyyy
Thank you!
Meeee too!
Oh yeah? You pro?
I'm not new to fish keeping, but I am new to keeping Cichlids. I broke down and got myself a 90g, (finally a big boy tank!), and this video is very, very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you for doing this list. I have a 125 gal community tank with angels mainly and all types of tetras. I recently had to add Blood Parrots because I had them with mbunas and peacocks and they were getting bullied. Thankfully they have acted just perfect in my community tank, eating and swimming, minding their own business. I don’t say they will work in all community tanks but they do just perfect in mine. To finish my tank I wanted to get some blue acaras but I wasn’t sure if they were too agressive. Thanks for the video 🙂
Recently caught onto this channel. Subbed for the great content! Kinda makes me now want to finagle some space alongside my African tanks to set up a South American community.
Really appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
Love this video. So colorful, informative and relaxing! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Good information about cichlid community.
Please make a video on jewel cichlids and mbuna cichlids and their maintenance.
Cool. Yes I have had most of these. I'm new to Rams. Just started keeping them this year.
I have to say my favorite fish at the moment - the Thomasi Cichlid (Anomalochromis thomasi). The thomasi is an amazing cichlid from West Africa with great personality and stunning colors. They stay relatively small and are definitely one of the most peaceful cichlids i've ever kept. They also go great in a planted aquarium and work well in a community. I've also found that they are one of the few cichlids that prefer to be in a group and they almost school together in a larger tank. I highly recommend them to any fish keeper, even beginners as they are very hardy aswell! :)
Hard to believe they’re the little cousins of the violent Hemichromis jewelfish and five star general!
beautiful cichlids there cheers and tank looks great, hows your friends now in june, and anyone else have cichlids at home as well?
Thank you. Great video. Exactly what I needed.
A PERFECT VIDEO FOR CICHLIDS AQUARIUM VERY NICE JOB.
A Jack Dempsey! Most think of them as very aggressive but in the right setup they can be very relaxed and passive. I love watching my Dempsey interact with my plecos too, he’s always interested in them. That’s my choice!
Definitely a debatable one! We have two Dempsey’s currently. “Jack” is older and very docile, while his son “Jack Jr” is very aggressive. Awesome fish to keep either way!
Yea my JD’s are super chill.
I have an electric blue jack Dempsey with 10 rainbow fish and have had no issues
their temperament varies. mine lives with an acara, catfish and a gold gourami just fine and previously lived with some rainbowfish. hated a jewel cichlid though. thing with a lot of fish is that their attitude varies heavily on the tank size, setup, numbers and personality
AWESOME LIST!!!!! TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS LIST!!! THANK YOU!!!
This is a fantastic video!!
Thank you!
Totally love severums, Electric blue Acara's & Geophagus Tapajos 💙👍 . saved this video for sure :)
Love your channel!
Thanks for following!
Nice video. I have a the electric blue acara and Geos and couldn’t agree more. I do want Discuss at some point in a dedicated tank.
Hey cichlid bros, old video I know but I just got into your guys channel and love it. I just setup a tank inspired by you guys and I've had luck with a starry night... or aka paratilapia polleni..
Very nice! Thanks for watching!
Awesome vid!
Thanks!
Good list. I like Nimbochromis venustus and never had a problem with them.
For my plant eating red spot sevrums I use pothos with a little black plastic cage for the roots! They still nibble but don't destroy!
That's a good idea! Planning to do something similar soon
Great Vedio
I agree with your choices 100%. I would also add the Cupid cichlid. It is a good choice for a community cichlid aquarium. You mentioned the electric blue acara and I agree but the regular Blue Acara is also a nice choice. My profile pic is of one I have kept.
Do you think red fin coryli (spell?) and green terror would fit in with Severum, Oscar, king parrots, silver dollar,
I have 125 gallon tank and I’m fairly new to this. Love these two fish. Had a coryli but ich took him down few months ago. Rest of community survived and are thriving now.
Great video 🙏
I have a 75 gal with a pair of Kribs, A pair of Electric blue Acara, fully grown gold severum (hes a giant), half sized Green Severum and 2 leopard Bushfish, they all live pretty happily. I personally think the Bushfish are extremely underrated becoming one of my favorites. i wouldn't put baby fish in the tank with them but that's with most Cichlids. they're awesome to watch during feeding time as they dart around for the food. other then that they are like standing statues most of the time you'll see them in odd areas in weird poses, it's quite fun to try to find them and see how they are posing today!
Love the uaru.
In my experience the thorichthys maculipinnis is one of the most easygoing cichlids. Very beautiful as well.
Great video. Have you seen the recent guppy stock at Aquarium Adventure? I picked up some for a breeding group a couple weeks ago.
Thanks! I actually did notice they had a ton of guppies recently. Good stuff
Great list👍🏿👍🏿👌🏿😎
Nice,please make on the list shell dwellers...
You did great work on the species profiles and the video was very enjoyable to watch as you knew what you wanted to say. Well done on both the info and the editing. Oh, and the Geophagus fish are something of attention hogs, they kept jumping into the video at every opportunity. Cool fish....
Thank you very much!
I've found out that trying to keep 4 to 5 adult severums in a 125 sucks, as soon as a pair forms, the others are toast......Thoughts?
Nice list, tho my experience of the lovable Rainbow cichlid has been entirely different... boisterous brute of a fish. Mines is 6 now and has been in every tank i have😂long live the rainbows👌👍💚
Thanks! That’s interesting to hear. Mine have always been great with others, but sometimes you never know with individual cichlids
another rather peaceful cichlid is the Chocolate cichlid. One of my easiest STRESS Free tanks is a 280 gallon tank with 4 uaru 4 Panda uaru 4 chocolate, 4 severums and 4 vieja regani
I’d love to see that tank!
damn, dream tank
In my 75 gallon, I have an electric blue acara with a group of geophagus tapajos. As well as giant danios
🔥🔥 Thxs for sharing
Hi great vid and footage! I was wondering if anyone has any experience keeping electric blue acara with discus?
Thank you! It could be done, but probably not ideal. Temps a bit high for the EBAs and they could bully the discus some
Leatacara dorsinger or curviceps great small peaceful cichlids
Great options!
I had an oscar with a green severum in a 55 back in the 90s when that seemed like a huge tank. Both were teddy bears and never acted out at all. Considering a reboot with Angel's and a geo tapajo with Congo tetras.
Would these cichlids work with a tropical community as well? tetras, angelfish, corys, exc?
I’m trying to start a 40 gallon tank I have two blue acaras. How many and what should I add for a community set up for long term?
Can you tell us where to find driftwood like you have? Thx!
is it the sand subsrate thats making your chocolate that colour
Hands down my favorite is Altolamprologus calvus. It’s Eastern but super rare in the hobby simply cause hobbyist know nothing about them.
How the hell did I not know that angels were cichlids all these years
You guys need to look into the tanganyikan cichlids more. There are a lot of really cool smaller cichlids from that lake like different julidochromis species or caudopunctatus, that stay small and kind of just keep to themselves and the little territory that they stake out in the aquarium.
It’s been on the list for awhile. One day soon I’m sure!
I keep my severum with an uaru of the same size! They fight a bit at first but after that, They seem to team up and conquer the whole community tank :) nothing hazardous to other fish but they hog the vegetables
Would ypu recommend Angels, keyhole chiclids and Geopgagus ?
Yep, would be good Tank mates
Thanks bro
Do you think severums would be ok in a aquarium with very hard water we have to use a water softner at my home but I can turn it off for aquarium use. out of the tap my ph is already between a 7.6 to 7.8 want to set up a 125 trying to find fish that will do well with my hard water.
nice
good luck
Can I keep an Apistogramma with some guppies?
Hello Cichlids bros. I am starting a new tank. I am working with a 75 gallon tank. I have had oscars before. So, I thought to have an oscar, red severum, chocolate severum and a pleco. I think that could work but I am not sure. Now that I just watched your video of the 10 cichlids you could put in a tank. I want to ask could If I didn't go the direction of the oscars. If I decided to use some of your selection, excluding the disc. Could the rest you offered all fit in my 75 gallon. Maybe 7 -9 different cichlids based on size they will get and bio load. Thanks for any help you can offer. Kenny G.
You can try out the polar blue parrot ciclid fish in your Community tank they don’t get that aggressive they are peaceful
My favorites are Oscar and Severum
I have never seen a peaceful Firemouth. I had a friend who had two Firemouth getting along with a Convict cichlid and a Jewel cichlid with a pleco.
been looking for an apistogramma in my lfs but never see any :(
I have an EB Acara what & how many on this list can I keep with it in a 75?
What is the PH should you keep your tank at when you keep the Ram in and what size tank should you keep the Blue Ram in I got a 10g tank and I like to get me some Blue Ram and what can you keep them with can you help me with this
Do I have to buy angle fish in groups?
Pygmy sunfish , scarlet badis, multies, birchardi, and many other tanganyikans
What about the festivum?
Another great choice!
German cichlids are great too
you listed it as soon as I posted this comment XD
Will the different types (color morphs) of Severums interbreed?
often they will
Isn't the key hole cichlid in the acara family?
Next list do the top 10 species variants of the apistos
I would say any congo river or nigerian river african Cichlids would fare very well
Apistogrammas are beautiful but what type is that
Mine is a macmasteri
@@CichlidBros ok thank you my dad loves them and I want to get him one
Question peu ton mettre des acara avec des discus
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Spotted Silver dollars
its funny you say to keep shrimp away, I woke up this morning with my cherry shrimp In my juvenile firemouths mouth.. lesson learned
When the new tank set up ?
Video should be out in the next week or two!
what is the background fish at 2:00 ?
Tetras
Awesome community cichlids list.
Gold saum is also a good keep in a cich community tank. I have 4 of them with green severums.
More power cichlid bros! Hfk
eletrik blue jack demsey
speak about shell dwellers
Why dislike
Yellow labs
I would advise against keeping discus with rummynose tetras. Discus might eat such tetras and choke on them and die.
Never had that issue. They are great tank mates.
Discus fish are very difficult to keep folks. Be aware.
Now discovered the Channel you Missed the shell dwelling Cichlid. Neolamprologus multifasciatus
Welcome to the channel!
How about chocolate cichlids?....
Do you sell and ship them?
Nope, sorry
Where can I buy them?
I have a community tank , with 3 Severums,6 Silver Dollars, 4 baby parrots, 1 baby Bella Shark, 3 clown louches , and of course 1 algae eater… another 125 with 15 baby yellow Labs and another 210 that has 2 1 yr old Piranhas that I’m trying to find a home for, because I want to turn it into a Severums Tank…..can you help me find these Severums?
If your local fish stores don’t have any, ordering online is a good option. Imperial Tropicals, tangled up in cichlids, and the Cichlid Shack are a few places I’ve had good experiences with
@@CichlidBros thank you very much I’ll let you know how it all turns out , however I never ordered online for my fish but I’m going to take your advice 🤗 Because I believe you know & have the experience and knowledge of theses fish.
See as much as I like this, my idea of a "community" are things like cichlid or higher end semi-agressive community tanks. As much as I live tetras and trust me I do but I just don't do mixed community tanks of non agressive fish anymore. My closest tank to that is a 150 planted tank with around 130 Cardinals, 30ish oto cats, a blue phantom pleco, 10 khuili loaches and that's it. Not much of a community as there's really no interaction. Just my Cardinals, a bunch of cleaners and one centerpiece fish in my phantom pleco
Oh ya i figured that ur two acaras are female and male. They only do the pushing on rock thing when preparing for a breeding spot. You should put them back together, expect some drama but hopefully you'll get fry out of it.
Uh! What about a green...terror... in community tank
Love the Green Terror, but sometimes can be a bit aggressive in a community tank. Awesome cichlids if you can get that to work though!
Bred discus for 10 years
Bro
umm my man, your read headed tapajos ARE the Geophagus Steindachneri
Nope. I have a female Steindachneri in this tank and can assure you that the group of seven are Geo Tapajos
Geophagus Tapajos isn't a fish, the redheaded tapajos is the common name of the Steindachneri, I was able to find one site that was selling Geophagus Parnaibae as the red headed tapajos. But 9/10 times the Tapajos name is refering to the Steindachneri.
If I'm wrong feel free to correct me but what I'm finding is supporting this.
@@noahthorin2476 Yeah there is a lot of incorrect information out there, especially with Geophagus classification. Tapajos, Steindachneri and Parnaibae are three separate species. Tapajos have the common name of Red Head Tapajos, while the Steindachneri has a common name of Red Hump Eartheater. The Steindachneri males get a nice sized nuchal hump and the species stays more tan/yellow than the Tapajos (also a bit more aggressive). The Parnaibae is separate from both, but get far less red coloration and is less common in the hobby
I know that fish classification is a mess but I for whatever reason have not been able to find any formal literature for an actual tapajos species, but thanks.
rainbow cichlid is a very aggressive cichlid !!!