Cichlid Showdown! African Cichlids vs American Cichlids - Which is Better?
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- Hello Fellow Fish Keepers!
In this video we have a little fun - which is better, African Cichlids or American Cichlids? Would love to hear from you in the comments below!
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My favorite 2 species Jaguar ( Central American) and Hemichromis Elongatus (West African) I kept them together for a long time and despite the difference in size the Elongatus held his own .
Can I get my rocks & branches from my yard or hardware store or only from aquarium stores?
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The best Cichlid is the one you own.
Gary M thats right....
I was about to throw fella shade at the African cichlids but my friend being the first comment I make of 2021, I agree with you whole heartily
The most wholesome comment.
Oscar ;) jk the best cichlid is the one you own best comment I would say for sure. The comment should have a lot more likes
Well said fellow fish keeper
Even though I'm African, I actually prefer American Cichlids. They have more research on them and they are more monogamous parents. You could say they also have more personality
from the malawi cichlids maybe yes...from tanganyikans i dont think so
Agreed
South african here , I agree !
I love my Oscar the most because he's basically just a water based dog. The Dempsey is great because of the coloring, and the Convict for that amazing stripped pattern. Basically a water Zebra. Love these guys.
All cool fish!
Oscars are my favourite too
I have a convict a Jack Dempsey and jewels in my tank
I had this exact combo in high school with jewels and blue acara
@@williamdavis9735 The Jewel is an African, so they have different water conditions.
American. Green Terror, Geo's, Apisto's, Electric blue Acara etc
I love Severums, the gold variety is such a beauty.
Zachary360 they are my favorite as well!
Some day (wishing)!!
I also keep severum,gold,large.... In my channel....
Are they aggressive
@@ashleygarnish9995 depends on species
"Two mutations away from being able to talk to their owner." Lol. Some fish are truly smart.
I must use that two mutations away sometime since I have two small Oscars.
I love all cichlids. I've had angelfish, discus, mikrogeophagus ramirezi, kribensis, aulonocara, venustus, copadichromis borleyi etc., and love them all. I do hope to try the longfin geophagus one day.
I like both.
African
-Kribensis
American
-Apistogramma
-Bolivian Ram
-German Blue Ram
I agree. But my list is slightly different.
African
- Kribensis (pelvicachromis pulcher)
- Neolamprologus birchardi
- Neolamprologus caudopunctatus
- Anomalochromis thomasi
American
- German Blue Rams
- Philippine Blue Angels
- Discus
- Apistogramma cacatuoides
- Apistogramma borelli
These are just the cichlids that I like. I like other non-cichlid fish too.
I don’t like kribs they cause more problems than good. They are should not be called peaceful even if they are not breeding...
@@SP-qs4yh I like Kribs.
But you are right they are very aggressive.
Electric Blue Accra - nuff said😉😃😃
Me too
I can't choose either! When I get my own house and I have enough money I would have a 150 gallon peacock/hap African tank and a 125 gallon south American tank. Thats my dream, only 2 tanks, but they would be amazing.
I highly appreciate the fact that you were unbiased when analyzing this topic.
Well done! 💪
Greetings from Costa Rica 👌
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video
So much years of knowledge condensed
I’ve learned a lot
not many videos on TH-cam like this one
😀 Thanks for a detailed video, I thought you'd not go into depth but you did and i did enjoy knowing what fish are possible for the people who have a space constraint.... Thank you!!!!
Central South amrican for me! My favourites being a couple that didn't get a shout out it the video being the electric blue acara and FireMouth Cichlid, underrated fish that dont require a massive tank. However I have admired african chiclids from a far and would love to keep them someday but coming from a softwater area I always feel I would have issues
Beautiful video with so many Cichlids ... Wow , the colors are magnificent .. Tks for sharing
My favorite is a Flowerhorn. As you pointed out they are very affectionate, almost like a puppy, the wife even has grown to love ours.
Hey Jason. My favourites at the moment are Kribensis, but let me explain....I have a breeding pair and it is just fascinating watching them guard the cave. When mum goes off for something to eat, dad will come down to the cave entrance until she returns.
They had about 25 fry and the most bizarre thing ever is watching them take the fry out for a swim and to feed. It's like watching a duck with ducklings following in a line. After 15-20 minutes they all trek back to the cave, and then about 6 hours later, do it all again. Without a doubt the best parenting have ever seen in fish.
Best wishes from Manchester, England
I know! They are so interesting to watch!
South american cichlids every day. From discus to geophagus to green terror to Oscar. So many varieties and so much personality
Kind of fall in the same boat as you Jason. My Malawi tank is my favorite tank, so many people think it’s saltwater, but my favorite fish is my pair of Gold Vieja Apistogramma. Great work as always 👍
Hello, just found your channel and I love the Central and South American cichlids...thanks for the great content!!!
I'm still new to the hobby but I'm learning so much from you and the KGT team. Thank you for your willingness to share your knowledge
Thank you! Good to hear
I love this channel it’s so calming lol
Thanks for being here.
Tropheus! I love the colony dynamic of these fish.
vieja synspilum I love mine such gorgeous colors
I've kept south American, central American, lake Malawi, and lake Tanganyikan cichlids. They're all great fish. The most rewarding experience I've ever had with any cichlid was getting wild caught brown discus to trust me enough to eat out of my hand.
That's cool!
It amazing how many different kinds of cichlids are out there. All different colors and looks
I know! You could spend a lifetime trying to keep them all.
your channel and the king of diy channel are my most favourite ones on youtube. i never miss a video since the day i have subscribed.
That's good company to be in. : -) Appreciate you being here!
Thank you for your kind of information
Keep it up my best wishes are always with you
Thats difficult... i love my Malawis, Tanganjikans and bichirs.
But i also love my angelfish and dwarfcichlids.
Great video. Love the Electric Blue Acara and a few of the African Peacock Cichlids
Great video. I've been in the hobby 40+ years and I love both for all the reasons you spoke on. The Red Oscar and the Gold Severum are 2 of my all time favorites. But for about 12 years now I have been breeding tanganyikans and Brichardi ,Leulpi, regani's, man that's where my heart.
Tanganyikans have a way of capturing people!
okay dam, this guy makes such insightful points and I can tell he actually thinks about the topic prior to the video and not just recording surface level babble while on camera. This quality shows!
Thank you! Appreciate you watching!
This satisfies my cichlid obsession. More videos like these please!
Glad I could help. : -)
Love 'em all but I'm an Mbuna and Peacock guy for sure.... Great video....
Electric blue acara are my favourite! The faces they give me..... awww
they are one of the best as far as aggressive goes
I love african cichlids,
Aesthetically they remind me of the devonian period. I named one ancient.
I never knew such small fish could demonstrate so much personality and wit. Very excited I went with my instinct and chose these guys over all the fish in the pet store.
I only guessed by their structure that they would be smart and personable.
Thanks for sharing your love and knowledge for these fish.
Thank you!
20 yrs in & keep both, love both
But do you keep both together and if so which African and American cichlids mix the best?
Green Terrors are probably my favorite but I love all SA and CA cichlids. They get larger and the personalities are awesome.
Jason Great Video!!!!
My favorite has to be the Discuss!
Love their demeanor and powerful quietness. I've had my 2 female Deep Red Melons for about 10 years now. They are very personable and just LOVE coming to the front of the 200 gal tank when they see me. They are both just a little over a foot perfectly rounded out. I only have about 30 Rummy Noses in with them. Heavily planted with 3 Amazon Swords and two large Anubis logged unto huge logs of driftwood. The substrate is all dark brown or black pebble rocks, boulders actually!!! LOL
At some point Joanna is going to want discus. :-)
I'm a fan of American cichlids. One of my favorites is Cichlasoma festa!! I plan on keeping a few geophagus red head tapajos soon. Love the videos. Keep up the good work.
South American anytime. Favourites being Sevrums, Discuss, Flowerhorn and Angels
Two that I learned to love was Amatitlania sajica (T-Bar) and Amatitlania siquia (Honduran Red Point)
I used to be heavy into African Cichlids, but had to be a slave to water changes. When the drought hit California, I had to let it go. I came back into the hobby and got into heavily planted tanks. Now I keep angels and bolivian rams and can go over a month without a water change. Love African cichlids and think they are more fun to watch, but being able to keep plants with the south Americans is a game changer for me.
I am a slave to it lol but I love African Cichlids. A little stressful to keep at times with like you said having to be on it for water changes etc... And the aggression issue at times. Really need extra tanks on hand with Africans for various reasons. And expensive. But love them.
Always a fun topic Jason seems like everyone loves to get involved in this conversation! My preference is American, but I still like African too. I have had both and I currently have Oscars,Severums & a Flowerhorn Tank. In the past I have probably had close to 100 different fish, maybe more?
I love cichlids from both continents. I used to keep Frontosa, Yellow Labs, Kribs and Jack Dempsey in the same tank. I only had a problem when the Jacks started to reproduce and I had to remove them.
Great video very well done thanks for sharing
I love your awesome videos, enjoy them very much.
Thank for your insight info, very knowledgeable and professional.
My all-time favorite Cichlid is Salvini Cichlid, too bad I can't get it here in Singapore.
Thank you for watching!
Being the hobby for 35 years the shift has definitely been towards Africans for many years as being smaller and some of the colors is appealing to most new comers. Heck even at the GCCA swaps you are hard to seed to find centrals. I’ve got lyonsi, festae, and melanura fry currently that I can’t hardly give away but in 30 tanks you won’t find a single old world fish in my house.
Festae are so awesome!
My favorite are South and Central American I have 3 Texas hybrids and they are just stunning to look at.
South/Central American cichlids are my preference so far. I really like apistogrammas, rams, and angelfish.
I'm getting peacocks for a 190 Gallon tank and you just made me very happy. Maybe I could keep at least one Oscar there. I've had Oscars before and I absolutely love them! You don't get more personality in a fish than that.
This is a very good video information on point 💯✔
I've always been an African Cichlid fan over the others. I've had Frontosa, Venustus, as centerpiece fish as well as smaller ones.
cracklingice I love the colour and markings for the frontosa
Fossocromis rostratus I've had many different chiclids over the 45 years of keeping fish and my favorite is the malawi sand diver obviously fully mature.
Demasoni! Best cichlid hands down! Gorgeous and fun to watch!
But mean :-)
I enjoy your contents alot.
Thank you!
I have an 65 gallon african and American mixed cichlid tank. My favorite for personality is my Kobalt Blue Zebra. As far as color I have a Texas that's absolutely stunning, and an orange Peacock with a purple/blue Irridescent shimmer.
Nice, informative vid, someday....right now I am carrying Tetras, but all are beautiful fish...tnx
Those a great too!
American cichlid hands down Dovii, Red Devil, are my favorites. Currently looking for some green terror
Geophagus I love and frontossa and flowerhorns I love em all
Just love all cichlids
Your video one of the best summaries on different cichlids. I own fresh and saltwater tanks. Discus and cichlids are very close on color to salt.
Thank you!
I loved this video! I'm trying my best to do as much research as I can before I finally branch out into owning my very first cichlid! my only issue is that I can't find any videos on the specific species that I want and some of the blogs I've read about aren't very consistent. The species I'm interested in is Neolamprologus tretocephalus! what are your thoughts on them?
They tend to be very aggressive, but very pretty. I actually think they fit in better with mbuna than other types of Lake Tanganyikan fish.
I don't yet own any cichlids, but the ones I have on my wishlist for the coming few years are shelldwellers (in large part thanks to you & your lowboy!), angelfish and maybe apistos or rams to go in a South American community tank. I'm tempted by Oscars, but I much prefer smaller tanks, I don't think I'd want to give up the space needed for the necessary tank to keep one in (twice the size of my largest community tank). But I learned about an entirely new one thanks to this video, and am going to look into Nannacara Anomala - so beautiful!
Those are all great choices.
I'm a planted tank/aquascaping guy, so the central and south American cichlids are the only ones I've kept, but those African cichlid colors sure are tempting.
For me tigar and albino oscar are my favorite. They are big and so interactive.
Oscar's are some of my favorite.
I love the American Cichlids in particular the Bolivian Ram, Whit the exception of Crib's I currently have both and they each have different personalities that like.
My favorites are my Red Devils . They have so much personality!
Great video man! All Ive kept for years are the Africans. Well I actually just started keeping an Oscar tank. I also have a group of Geophagus Tapajos. Even Favoring Africans like I do, I still dont think I could pick a Favorite. There are to many more amazing species I plan to keep in the future. Keep up the great videos, I love them❤
Jason these African cichlids have stolen all my attention. Even my kids noticed lol
They have a tendency to do that. : -)
Great video.
Nice video as usual...Question what are those Yellow ones with black spots?.
My pair of blue acaras and my pair of pelligrinis were long time faves. I also really like kribensis.
Those are great fish!
I really love my mbuna tank. But... I've always wanted oscars and y'all have me in love with that altifrons!
The Electric Blue Acara are my favorite. They are very peaceful and colorful.
This video is about South America vs African Cichlids only. Not blue fish. SMH
I’ve loved and kept many cichlids. On the American side I’m particular to Geophagus and Severum. If I had to limit myself to one location though it would have to be Lake Tanganyika and if I could only keep one species it would be Altolamprologus Calvus. That Arganteus (sp?) at 3:30 though is a seriously gorgeous fish.
Amazing video great African fish
Thank you 👍
Ive gone through lots of phases but lately I really like angles because you can have plants, they are hardy and have great personalities : )
For sure - plants and angels are a nice mix. :-)
Im an international cichlid guy, I love oscars and green terrors, But I'm a fan of frontosa and milawi eyebitters, also can't forget the tilapia species from asia. Also individually I prefer american cichlids, but I prefer african cichlid tanks
To me a big part of the difference is the environment they are found in ( and what my tank will look like): logs and maybe plants vs rocky reefs
Never owned a ciclid other than Angels. Never expect to either but your videos are tempting me.
They are really cool. : -)
I have tried the Africans but have been keeping South & Central American cichlids and for many years. I love the personalities and how friendly they can become. I keep Vieja, Chocolates, Nicaraguam, Neon Blue Acara, Geo Tapajos and they all eat out of my hand, I love them. Although I do find the dwarf cichlids and smaller ones like rams are more skittish
I have some synspilum growing out right now that I', excited about!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics sadly mine is mating with my Nicaraguam which i gather is wrong ggrrr
I like Lake Malawi Africans. I currently own my own group of them and it’s like a reality TV show in my living room. They are just a joy to watch. When I first got them, they were much like puppy dogs always at the glass begging for food, but as they grew older, they became more interested in each other. I’ve successfully been able to raise up 3 fry in my main tank. It’s really an amazing tank to watch.
Everytime I go to feed mine, it's like they have never eaten a day in their lives!
jalo reef and metriaclima aurora is my favorite.
I prefer the American cichlids, the mellow smaller ones are very fun to keep in a group. Lots of plants and rocks, a few rams with cory cats and maybe some inverts roaming around. That's my favorite
I use to be fanatic about CA cichlids. Most of them have great personalities like you mentioned. But they do need a lot of space. For that reason, I am keeping mainly African cichlids now. Great video btw!
Yep, that about sums it up. :-)
I’m an American guy, I would have to say my favorite fish is my big male Parachromis Managuense
Love those too!
Love mine too and my Dovii 🐠👍
That shirt is dope...I wanna pick one up for myself 👍👍 I like both btw lol
Thanks man!
Fossochromis Rostratus aka the sly fox is my all time favourite.
I am in love with South/Central American cichlids. I am planning a monster fish tank now. Cycling a flowerhorn tank now.
As far as my favorite its really hard to say. Oscars for personality and Vieja synspilum for color and body shape. I am new to the Maskaheros you showed. That one is amazing as well. Like I said, I love new world cichlids.
I had a tank full of borleyi kidango,, awesome beautiful Lake melawai cichlid,,,
I love my Green Terror GS and Tiger Oscar with Convict
U can see by my name 😂what I like a prefer..African cichlids...big variety and colors
I love Malawi they are way more smarter than the rest. Actually a research paper was done on them which proved they are actually a super advanced freshwater fishes.
Haps: Fossochromis rostratus
Peacock : Lwanda
Mbuna: yellow labs
These are my favorites
I had a bunch of fish that I was told they was called banded cichlids.
Beautiful white Pearl body's, with a few black stripes across the body.
With 1 black stripe across the eye, and a dot at the tail fin.
They was small, and had baby faces.
C & SA all the way!!! I love their body shape, colors, and that pugnacious personality!
Haven't kept cichlids yet but very interested in apistogrammas lately.
I love the alunacara maylandi and alunocara stuartgranti
I like them both,and i don't know why people fight over these.Both are accessible to some extent and diverse.You can even mix them ,depending on the species or group.