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I love watching you brothers grow in the hobby...wish y'all lived closer but your videos are good enough that it feels I'm almost there in person...I've been doing fish for 30 yrs just took a break but getting back at it w a frontosa group 😁
Nice video. Bought two acaras last week after your community aquarium video. They are awesome with cories and angels. Tank(40) too small for an oscar, would eat cories. Acara is off the chart, stealing showcase title from angels. They act like they are glad to see you, just hungry. Thanks for recommending
Awesome feeding routine. My Peacock & Hap tank along with Severum & Oscar tank are currently on Xtreme Big Fella pellets. Twice per week I feed them Northfin Veggie pellets, however the Oscar just spits the veggies out 😂 My guys aren't to the size of needing Monster pellets yet, but they'll get there. Take care Cichlid Bros 😎
That’s a solid list. My top 5 of all time would be Buttikoferi, Jaguar cichlids, pure Red Devils, Trimacs, Red tiger Motas My top 5 in my fish room would be my Jack Dempsey, my male Jaguar, my Gold Saum, my Oscar and my Texas cichlid.
Do you guys ever feed your fish earthworms? I have a Amphilophus Lyonsi that loves them as do the African cichlids. I just do not want them to eat too many. Thanks for the excellent and informative video!
Hey I was hoping you might be able to help, I am just starting my SA/CA Cichlid tank and will be getting all my fish from a small size. I will have 1x Oscar, 1x JD 1x Green Terror 1x Severum and 5x Sveni's. What size would you say to start with and also for around how long? Thanks in advance
For Quinn, the central american cichlids, would the Xtreme community mix flakes be good for centrals? It has krill/suprilina in it. I have firemouth, rainbow cichlid and Honduran red point and pearlscale cichlid (small).
Too be honest any cichlids larger than 6" I think twice a week is fine some grow out tanks once a day is fine but in my experience fish need alot less food than what most fishkeepers do
Lovely looking tank mate I have 5 columbia tetra and 6 small firemouth chichlids in a 20 gal tank is temporary until I find biggger tank one of the chichlids is really aggressive have u any tips on what I can do thanks?
Thanks! The best option would be to get the larger tank asap. Even small, they can be territorial. Otherwise, I’d recommend separating the aggressive one if you can
@@CichlidBros no worries will be getting a big tank soon as thank u for the help.For now I’ve separated the aggressive one he’s still in the tank but in a breeder box I’ll try let the other fish claim a territory while he’s isolating fingers crossed it works won’t be able to get a tank for few days.
I see you guys with all of these tanks set up and my question is how the hell do you manage the electric bill? I had one 120 gallon tank and two 75 gallon tanks running in my home it it drove my electric bill up more than 100 bucks every month. The 120 gallon was running an FX6 and I had each of the two 75 gallons were running 2 Fluval 407's. The 120 had a 300 watt heater and a 200 watt for back up and each of the 75 gallons were running a 300 watt heater. The 120 gallon was main show tank so no sponge filter but the 2 75 gallons had an air pump to run the sponge filters. Even though they were needed for filtration, I like running sponge filters in my tank for the bacteria housing. Now I know I could have just ran one 407 on each of the 75 gallons, but these were all show tanks placed around my home. I like to run a main filter and a polishing filter to get the clearest water. After a couple months of my electric bill being way higher than I could wrap my head around. I dismantled the two 75 gallons and sold the fish to a local fish store for half of their value. It sucked because I love my fish, but that electric bill was hurting my feelings even more. One of the 75 was a discus tank, one was a central american tank with mainly gorgeous severum in it and the 120 gallon that I still have is my Peacock tank. By the way I have 4 severum and 2 frontosa in their with the 16 peacocks and they are all thriving. Says a lot about trying things in this hobby. So if anyone has some info on what they do to keep their electric bill down running multiple large tanks. Id love to hear it. I no longer have the 75 gallon tanks, but I wouldn't mind setting up a 210.
Keep fish that to not require high water temperature. It's the heater(s) that really jacks up the bill. My 75 gallon tank uses a 250 watt heater to keep water temp at @78 degrees in basement temp of around 63-64 degrees during winter months. The heater alone cost 21 dollars a month to run. My electricity rate is 18 cents per kilowatt. My 10 watt LED light costs 43 cents a month to run. My Fluval 305 canister costs 2.07 a month to run. My Penguin HOB costs 1.43 a month to run.
I did actually. Was actually my favorite fish at the time. It grew quick and had a short lifespan (2 years) which I believe was due to the warmer temperatures. With these new Gymnogeophagus, I’m keeping temps low most of the year
New to fish, I've had my fish 1 week now, all small 1 inch, dempsey, e.b. accura. Fire mouths. Convict,geo. Bala shark, pleco I fed flakes first 3 to 4 days I tried a small pellet yesterday, and they seem to not like it.
My geos red heads, EBA and Severum are all about 3 inches, currently feeding extreme krill and spurlina mix as well as frozen bloodworms and fluval color enhancing formula (bug bites), thinking of getting some extreme pewee pellets?! 🤷🏾♂️
Love ur tanks,BUT! ha ha can we get rid of the fake plans? They ruin the tanks and you have lights to grow plants easy,just my 2 cents,(answer)-ciclids don't always eat plants.
If you're interested in the food used in this video, check out the affiliate links below.
- Xtreme Krill Flakes - geni.us/iTAWsN
- Xtreme Big Fella Pellets - geni.us/9Cra
- Xtreme Nice Pellets - geni.us/6ADcc
- Xtreme Monster Pellets: amzn.to/3DdQ6nR
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Thank you, really appreciate that! 🤙🏼🤙🏼
I've been waiting for the feeding video for so long...Thanks guys I got see this..😎🤠👌
I love watching you brothers grow in the hobby...wish y'all lived closer but your videos are good enough that it feels I'm almost there in person...I've been doing fish for 30 yrs just took a break but getting back at it w a frontosa group 😁
Thanks for watching and the kind words! Best of luck with the fronts!
Wow I wish I have a frontosa so jealous
They are literally 90 min from me. I'm sure they have been to Lake geneva. 🤣🤣
This is a great video. Super informative!
Thanks man! Glad it’s helpful 👌🏻
Nice video. Bought two acaras last week after your community aquarium video. They are awesome with cories and angels. Tank(40) too small for an oscar, would eat cories. Acara is off the chart, stealing showcase title from angels. They act like they are glad to see you, just hungry. Thanks for recommending
Awesome feeding footage!
Thanks!
My fish just absolutely love the Xtreme my predictor haps have excellent color and form Xtreme all the way love the video 🙂👍👍
Awesome, had the same experience! Thanks for watching 🤙🏼
You guys are great 👍🏼
Thanks as always Sean 👊🏻👊🏻
Awesome feeding routine. My Peacock & Hap tank along with Severum & Oscar tank are currently on Xtreme Big Fella pellets. Twice per week I feed them Northfin Veggie pellets, however the Oscar just spits the veggies out 😂 My guys aren't to the size of needing Monster pellets yet, but they'll get there. Take care Cichlid Bros 😎
Sounds like a great schedule. They’ll get there soon! Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Great video guys! I’m new to the hobby and I now know I’m over feeding 😮
Good video...love the information about different types of fish
Thanks! Glad it was informative!
That Firemouth is so pretty!
Thank you!
wow, the coldwater cichlids, awesome, i take it they hard to get hold of, never heard of them here in uk fish suppliers or stores
Sorta rare but there were a couple online retailers/breeders in the US that have had them lately. Very cool fish
Thank you for the good info
Any time!
Always love your guy's content.
Thanks for watching!
Some very good information…
Superb video how is your tank crystal
Clear which canister you are using for 180 gallons
Thank you! Currently using a FX6 and a Sicce Whale 500. Links in description if you need them!
I love you 150gallon south tank and how clean you keep it i love it
Super informative!
Glad it was helpful!
I feed mine wild caught shrimp. Dry Krill, tubaflex , crickets, blood worms and cichlid gold by Hakari. My parents kept fish.
Neat. I have been thinking about getting a pair of the Electric Blue Acara... sorta like a bigger version of favorite Dwarf Powder Blue Gourami.
Loved it, great video, who got you three into fish keeping?
Thank you! We always had a cichlid tank in the house growing up. All three of us got into to it much more post college when we had our own places
Top 5 favourite cichlids are
1) Oscar
2) Jack Dempsey
3) Jaguar
4) Gold Saum (Andinoacara rivulatus)
5) True Green Terror (Andinoacara stalsbergi)
That’s a solid list.
My top 5 of all time would be
Buttikoferi, Jaguar cichlids, pure Red Devils, Trimacs, Red tiger Motas
My top 5 in my fish room would be
my Jack Dempsey, my male Jaguar, my Gold Saum, my Oscar and my Texas cichlid.
@@Buttikoferiii that's a pretty solid list and stocking you got 👌🏻
@@torringames thanks, love Buttikoferi but they’re monsters lol
None of the cichlids I’ve had has ever dominated my now late female Butti
Do you guys ever feed your fish earthworms? I have a Amphilophus Lyonsi that loves them as do the African cichlids. I just do not want them to eat too many.
Thanks for the excellent and informative video!
Thanks for watching! Haven’t fed earthworms
I love the green terror I have one I really really hope he gets a nucal hump like yours. Mine has started getting a bump so I hope it keeps growing.
Thanks for this video! Was wondering if you guys have seen that Old Orchard Aquariums shut down. I just found out and it sucks.
Thanks for watching! Heard that recently. Sad to hear it
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Nice! I'm sure that your Severums would love some raw zucchini.
some people recommend soaking the food first. what do you think?
Very interesting video 👍👍👍
Thanks!
awesome video
Thanks!
Excellent
Hey I was hoping you might be able to help, I am just starting my SA/CA Cichlid tank and will be getting all my fish from a small size. I will have 1x Oscar, 1x JD 1x Green Terror 1x Severum and 5x Sveni's. What size would you say to start with and also for around how long? Thanks in advance
i love convet cichlids
Do you recommend an automatic feeder for ciclids.while on vacation?
How do you determine the amount of food per fish?
For Quinn, the central american cichlids, would the Xtreme community mix flakes be good for centrals? It has krill/suprilina in it. I have firemouth, rainbow cichlid and Honduran red point and pearlscale cichlid (small).
Too be honest any cichlids larger than 6" I think twice a week is fine
some grow out tanks once a day is fine but in my experience fish need alot less food than what most fishkeepers do
Yep, I’d rather lean that way than feeding more often
What about mbuna tank?
Lovely looking tank mate I have 5 columbia tetra and 6 small firemouth chichlids in a 20 gal tank is temporary until I find biggger tank one of the chichlids is really aggressive have u any tips on what I can do thanks?
Thanks! The best option would be to get the larger tank asap. Even small, they can be territorial. Otherwise, I’d recommend separating the aggressive one if you can
@@CichlidBros no worries will be getting a big tank soon as thank u for the help.For now I’ve separated the aggressive one he’s still in the tank but in a breeder box I’ll try let the other fish claim a territory while he’s isolating fingers crossed it works won’t be able to get a tank for few days.
Nice, good luck!
Hi
About how many peacocks and haps would you keep in a 75-gallon tgank?
Probably 15-20 range but none of the big predatory haps
Sir can I feed beef heart to my African cichlids?
I see you guys with all of these tanks set up and my question is how the hell do you manage the electric bill? I had one 120 gallon tank and two 75 gallon tanks running in my home it it drove my electric bill up more than 100 bucks every month. The 120 gallon was running an FX6 and I had each of the two 75 gallons were running 2 Fluval 407's. The 120 had a 300 watt heater and a 200 watt for back up and each of the 75 gallons were running a 300 watt heater. The 120 gallon was main show tank so no sponge filter but the 2 75 gallons had an air pump to run the sponge filters. Even though they were needed for filtration, I like running sponge filters in my tank for the bacteria housing.
Now I know I could have just ran one 407 on each of the 75 gallons, but these were all show tanks placed around my home. I like to run a main filter and a polishing filter to get the clearest water. After a couple months of my electric bill being way higher than I could wrap my head around. I dismantled the two 75 gallons and sold the fish to a local fish store for half of their value. It sucked because I love my fish, but that electric bill was hurting my feelings even more. One of the 75 was a discus tank, one was a central american tank with mainly gorgeous severum in it and the 120 gallon that I still have is my Peacock tank. By the way I have 4 severum and 2 frontosa in their with the 16 peacocks and they are all thriving. Says a lot about trying things in this hobby.
So if anyone has some info on what they do to keep their electric bill down running multiple large tanks. Id love to hear it. I no longer have the 75 gallon tanks, but I wouldn't mind setting up a 210.
Keep fish that to not require high water temperature. It's the heater(s) that really jacks up the bill. My 75 gallon tank uses a 250 watt heater to keep water temp at @78 degrees in basement temp of around 63-64 degrees during winter months. The heater alone cost 21 dollars a month to run. My electricity rate is 18 cents per kilowatt.
My 10 watt LED light costs 43 cents a month to run.
My Fluval 305 canister costs 2.07 a month to run.
My Penguin HOB costs 1.43 a month to run.
Which auto feeder do you prefer?
I like the one from Eheim
Hi Troy, Have you ever kept Gymniogeophagus Balzani?
I did actually. Was actually my favorite fish at the time. It grew quick and had a short lifespan (2 years) which I believe was due to the warmer temperatures. With these new Gymnogeophagus, I’m keeping temps low most of the year
When your fish are juvenile or younger around 1 to 3 inches would you suggest feeding twice a day or is once sufficient.
Once is probably okay, but twice for juveniles works well
New to fish, I've had my fish 1 week now, all small 1 inch, dempsey, e.b. accura. Fire mouths. Convict,geo. Bala shark, pleco I fed flakes first 3 to 4 days I tried a small pellet yesterday, and they seem to not like it.
Takes time to get used to them and they have to be big enough plus it depends on brands I’ve had some brands they just won’t eat.
the cold water geo how big do these get thxs
Not too big. About 4-5 inches
What's the food at 2:57 all the way on the right? They don't look like flakes
Xtreme krill flakes
Hey someone is giving away some convicts can I put them in a 20-gallon long? If so how many can I put?
Here you go! Convict Cichlid | Care Guide & Species Profile
ruclips.net/video/gVuiSQnZNrY/видео.html
My geos red heads, EBA and Severum are all about 3 inches, currently feeding extreme krill and spurlina mix as well as frozen bloodworms and fluval color enhancing formula (bug bites), thinking of getting some extreme pewee pellets?! 🤷🏾♂️
I’d recommend! It’s a good sized pellet for them even as adults
Have you guys ever heard of people successfully keeping Shell dwellers and peacocks?
Love ur tanks,BUT! ha ha can we get rid of the fake plans? They ruin the tanks and you have lights to grow plants easy,just my 2 cents,(answer)-ciclids don't always eat plants.
We only have fake plants in tanks that have plant shredders, such as the severums, silver dollars, and haps