Top 5 Peaceful Mbunas - African Cichlids for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
- Mbunas get a bad rep for being aggressive... because they are!
If you keep them in proper ratios, in a big enough tank with appropriate tank mates, you will be able to build a harmonious aquarium.
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Been watching your videos for a number of years. As always, great content.
Thank you for the great tips on Mbunas. I can hardly wait to get my Cichlid tanks set up this summer. I am very glad I found your channel. Cheers for now. 👍
Glad to see the Rusty cichlids on your list ... they were the first mbuna I kept so many years ago :)
Thanks for the great video! Lots of useful information. Getting into cichlid keeping can be kind of daunting with how many species and variations there are out there. This gave me a good starting point for my new tank!
Great video Richelle ; thank you !!!
love your videos!! keep it up!
Hi Richelle, great video! I appreciate your videos especially the ones on Mbuna. My most peaceful Mbuna would be my Pseudotropheus Acei yellow tails. My Yellow labs are pretty chill also. My most aggressive Mbuna so far would be one of my male Rustys. He is territorial and aggressive especially towards the other rustys. I recently added Kenyi, Red Zebra and Cobalt blue so we will see if one of those become the new tank boss.
Very informative video. Years of experience packed in a small video...
Thank you ☺️
Very informative. So many stunning cichlids 🤓
Thank you 😊
thank you so much for the info, exactly what i needed
Very beautiful fish Richelle! Love the Mbuna cichlids
Thank you 😊
Yeah agree your work is appreciated great work😃👍
Some great information and superb knowledge
Thank you 😊
Thank you so much ❤ the video
Best cichlid channel.. You are so knowledgeable..! Thank you. To bad I live in Arizona, I would love to visit your store, keep up the good work……
Thank you 😊
Hello Richelle, I wish I would have saw this video prior to me getting the Auratus. It has been in the time out tank a number of times. Thanks for the info.
Awesome video
Awesome information.
I much prefer mbunas to haps.
Good info. Just subscribed.
Thank you :)
Merci beaucoup.
Thanks 👍
I set up a 1.5 meter aquarium with 40 mbunas with a good filtration and a rock aquascape. I think I achieved the natural environment within the tank thus they are very enjoyable to watch and to keep, I wouldn't choose the word agressive but excited as for their behavior.
Auratus in Mexico is commonly called/named "Caramelo" in the hobby, wich is hilarious since that means candy, guess sarcasm was in order when locally naming it here....such a "sweet" fish. great video.
LOL … so sweet, he’ll make the other fish,s teeth fall out 😂
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I've had different fish through the years but have become fascinated with Mbunas. Doing my research before starting a tank for them.
Thank you so much for the information. What size tank
Great day from Egypt
Great info and you are very cute.
Hey.. I've been looking everywhere for an mbuna video. Thanks. Have you ever kept a pearl gourami with any mbunas? Do you think it's a good idea? what's your opinion on that?
I have had a handful of African Cichlids over the years... I have an empty 90g that I hope to have running soon, and stocked up by the end of summer. This video will he somewhat helpful, as I won't be stocking the more agressive species in the first batch or two as I have mistakenly done before...
My most aggresssive fish have been a large bumblebee, a couple Kenyii , and of course the Auratus that I have had... any Auratus I get in the coming years will either be in a species only tank, or added as small juveniles to a well established community of larger Mbuna. I will definitely let the yellow labs get well established and large before adding any others... likely will do blue ones second, then some others maybe next year... any suggestions on commonly available species that would go good added to a group of yellow labs later? Most of the ones listed here aren't ones I commonly see in my area...
I would be interested getting advice on avoiding hybrids during breading. As I understand mbuna are unlikely to cross breed if they are sufficient numbers and look different. I currently have yellow labs and demosoni who pretty much ignore each other and any aggression is usually kept within species. I would like to bring a 3 variant into my tank, do you have any advice... or is 3 species a bad idea. I usually remove holding female to separate holding tank. Main tank is 300l, rocky with fine crushed coral. Thanks.
Very interesting and helpful video!! Could any of these be kept with peacock cichlids?
Oh yes! All but the Cynotilapia at the end :)
I have 75gal that I am setting up to be a cichlids tank and I would really like make it a community tank, this information is very helpful. One question, should I introduce one species at a time? If so, how long can/should I wait between introductions. Guess there is more than one question. Finally, can I have plants in the tank, what kind are best? Thanks again. Most helpful.
Merci et salut depuis L.A.
I love you Rochelle❤️
The one you said you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole I have 2 of those in with 10 other mbuna cichlids they are fine but I have ALOT of hiding spots for them all seems to keep the peace in that tank.
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Yay!!! 🤗
I have one of your ‘cichlid geek’ Tshirts and I live in the UK. Is this the furthest your tshirts have been bought from Quebec?
I have the electric yellows and Acei. My Acei are the most "colorful" with their happiness, they dance ALOT when you watch them. The yellows are skittish but very curious. I keep them all in a 110Gal mixed tank that ranges from Jack Dempsey's all the way down to julis.
You're fantastic, it's a good thing I'm down in Idaho, you would need to chase me awat
I have a tank of lab perlmutt, rustys and saulosi. I prefer the dwarf mbuna just because I dont need an absolutely massive tank for them. When I get a 5ft tank I'd like to maybe add maingano in.
Hi I just got ten yellow lab juveniles to raise and eventually breed I plan on ordering 8 to 10 more but some of the ones I received have white trailers on there fins instead black I haven’t seen any red eyes could these be hybrids
You should talk about the Labidochromis Joanjohnsonnae, this one is more peaceful than the 5 species you talk about
Ngara are fantastic-I have 2 beautiful matt black fellows,
Wow
Could you talk about lamprologus sp?
I have rusty and yes very peaceful.
Hi Michelle,
I would like to know more about Mbuna Cichlids. Is there any other way to get in touch other then here in RUclips?
I don’t offer consultations but have many other videos on the sibject
I was really expecting Saulosi to appear on your list, they stay small and have about the same temperament as the Rusty's in my experience
Can I add any 2 frm these to a 10 peacock tank for 45 gallon?
I have a peaceful beautiful bumblebee Mbuna. I’m guessing it’s because it’s just him (not really sure if it’s a male) and a peacock in my 55 tank that grew up together in the same tank in the store. The peacock has been the tank boss since we brought them home in December, 2020.
Just 2 fish?
How about hongi cichlids? Try to get details about this mbuna but didn't get any..
I have an Auratus Male (Golden Mbuna) and he is NASTY! He is currently in his own tank because if I put him in my 55 or 75 Mbuna Tanks he just starts killing. Any suggestions on what to do with him?
"peacefull" for those who have not kept mbuna before, by peaceful she means amongst mbuna family. They are not corydoras peaceful - at least with my experience lol. So long as you are observant of their behaviour on a daily basis and intervene when necessary. I have some aggressive species and when there's a fish being beaten badly I won't remove that fish, I remove the alpha for two weeks and once I return the alpha back into the tank he is no longer the alpha. The downside of this method is that the new alpha can end up being worse but eventually he will either submit to original alpha and on two occasions I found him dead. I experiment around and found the most successful way to tame aggression is to remove the top two alpha for two weeks and rearrange the tank. When I return them back into the tank I do the oppsitite of what experts suggests and will return them early in the day so the entire tank is aware of their return. They will get beat up but within a week or two they return to the top spot. The peace will last for several months before I intervene again. The odd thing is the alphas (red zebra and kenyi) have 3 females each and breed all the time but none of their fry ever survives. The red top hongi and demasoni have quadruple their numbers into adulthood in the 3 years since I set them up. So I've lost two maybe three as I'm unsure if that one died from aggression causing fatal injury or stress. Get them as juveniles and let them grow up together in the tank and remove excess males and you will have a tonne of entertainment with these guys.
I have a full grown Williams mbuna and he’s the sweetest fish in tank mixed with peacocks and haps all about the fishes personality
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Why is my PH, KH, Alkalinity and Water Hardness high in my 40 gallon (Glofish)fresh water fish tank?
How can I differentiate mbunas and peacock cichlids
Can you mix Peacock and Mbuna?
This video reminds me I never did start my mbuna tank. The first club auction in the Los Angeles area is this Sunday, so maybe I'll find one of these and start my collection. (I'll have empty space as I hope to sell a few hundred Calico Red Bristlenose plecos) I have always liked those caeruleus... but I also like P. saulosi..... I need more tanks!
I've got a acei/yellow lab/snow white mix, and of all the groups, the yellow labs have the most internal aggression. I'm assuming there has to be more males in there, it's just hard to tell who's who except the fully colored up male.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing 😊
Would you say pseudotropheus socolofi are relatively peaceful?
Definitely the yellow lab is the most peaceful.
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when you bought your first cichlid before doing propper research (i thought i did, but didn't knew about really agressive mbunas).
I ended up with some auratus as one of my first cichlid species. The females are fine but the male is the devil on earth for all my other cichlids. including the female auratusses. they also breed quite often which is kind of a double edged blade.
Although the male in my eyesore, his offspring is very peaceful (as far as auratus and African chichlids go). I have a few generations scattered around the tank which just mind there own business. once I even have been able to separate a pregnant female, resulting in 30 youngin'. they were together for quite some time. They even showed schooling behavior and rather little territorial behavior.
however i would never buy an auratus again hahaha
Is it OK to keep a single mbuna in a species only tank? Would it affect its color?
They are best kept with other fish. They are not solitary
How many African cichlid can i put on my 75 gollons fish tank?
I believe the white tail acei are actually a different species. Pseudotropheus elegans .
Merci. J'ai hate d'avoir mon aquarium!
Where can we email or chat for some help for a stock list and order some fish ? Im from toronto
You can send us a message on our website, it’s in the video description
Just set up a new tank 50gallons with 10 yellow lab all juvenile 1/2 inch in size to hopefully watch them grow,want no others
Hope it works
Advice welcome
Can you have like 3 of each type in one 49 gallon tank?
Sure
Can I keep them in a 60gal high sided? How many?
This is what tank I have and have the same question. Did you move forward with this?
@@amandahepler8582 hi no. currently neons a few other tetras. Use to have peacocks and mbunas. And they hit the sides chasing each other around. But red empress peacock is like a bigger fish. Mine is high sided but think it is like 50-55. Also note that they swim around rapidly and in some cases they don't sit still.
The pro cared tanks I think have been tested to get rid of bullies..and might have mostly females..not sure. One good thing is they are hardy fish. Always chasing though.
I find julidochromis to be fine with my mbuna as they are all grown up
How about Ram /Mbuna
8 gallon tank tank idea cichlids fish
Regarding "Pseudotropheus acei" and the pronunciation. A retailer here in Sweden (he's from the west coast) calls them "Pseudotropheus okay" . It's hilariuos (but I'm easily amused). I hope you're doing okay, by the way.
I can only imagine the conversations at the LFS :
- Here is the Pseudotropheus okay
- I'm doing well, thanks for asking!😅
U look nice today🤘
Do you have a top 5? top 10 list of peaceful Peacock Cichlids for beginners?
Not at the moment ☺️
@@QuebecCichlides So I just made a lengthy post and RUclips glitched, erasing everything I had just typed so I will try again...
I am putting together a list of Peacocks and Haplochromis to go in my 125g tank. My goal is to keep less aggressive fish that stay in the 5" - 7" range with a few exceptions. My list thus far includes: Lemon Jake, Z Rock, Blue Neon, Ruby Red, Deepwater Hap, Flavescent, Giseel, Lethronops Red Cap, Yellow Benga Sunshine, O.B.s and Yellow Labs. One guy said to take the Yellow Lab off because it was the most aggressive fish he ever had in the tank and it attacked everything. Seriously? Can you please verify that all of those fish grow to be in the 5" - 7" (Maybe 8") range? I'm asking because I had a Mdoka White Lips on the list that a website listed as having a maximum size of 7" but a guy in my fish group said his grew to almost 12" (with photo). People in the Cichlid group also debated over the O.B.s with some saying they were too aggressive and some saying they would be okay in the tank.
The biggest debate came from discussing how many fish to put in the tank. I was originally told to put between 20 - 30 Peacocks in the tank. Some people thought this was low and others thought it was very low. One guy said that he would put 100 5" fish in a 125g but that sounds high to me. And I remembered John from KG Tropicals saying to take the number of gallons and divide it in half to get the number of fish to put in the tank. Honestly, that sounds a little high too. So what is the sweet spot? If I just want to put enough fish in the tank to curb aggression, how many should I be looking at? And while I'm asking, can I put multiples of the same type of fish in the tank or should I try to keep them as different as posssible?
And just FYI, I'm currently running two SunSun 704B canister fitlers and two large sponge filters on the tank. When I get the ammonia, nitrites and nitrates to 0 PPM, I will start stocking the tank with around 5 fish per month until I get it fully stocked.
(And now I'm going to highlight and copy this entire post before I try to submit it.... again.)
Where's Chindongo Saulosi. This dwarf mbuna only reach 8 cm. Blue males and yellow females. They can be a bit more competitive within their own species. But are quite peaceful otherwise. I just sold a selected F2 group, good quality is hard to come by.
Yeah I was expecting that one to come up as well
I have around 10 African chichlid in my 3 feet tank. Shall I add few tiger barb schooling fishes around 15 into this tank.
Please suggest.
3 foot isn't large enough for african cichlids 4ft minimum
A lot off the yellow labs in the video are all yellow why?
They are extremely bred because of their popularity so sometimes they don’t have the black line
The Quebec cichlid store, why is it that you do not ship to the United States, Michael from Orlando.
It’s simply too complicated
What's the most aggressive mbuna cichlid?
Probably the big blue one and bubble bee one there all very aggressive except the yellow ones
Only mbuna pacefull is the yellow labs and yellow tail acei
You've never kept rustys then
I have a yellow lab since he was a baby on my community tank, he was good till now he is nipping the other mates 😟 right now he is in jail on breeder box
9:00 I have one of these auratus cichlid and it never bothers any peacock cichlids big or small and minds it’s own business. Maybe I got lucky🤷♀️
Definitely lucky he he🍀
@@QuebecCichlides yes, I saw him at the pet shop with little peacock cichlids and it was just minding its own business and being really friendly
I guess I must be lucky too! I have been keeping African cichlids for over 40 years and I have never had any problems with the Aratus Cichlid!
I had a labidochromis and he almost killed my 10 inch oscar, he relentlessly attacked him over and over and had the other 11 fish that were bigger than him in a corner of the 125. He had to go and he did
My cobalt blue mbuna is an ahole and wants to be alone, he killed everyone even the pleco. Now he swims around alone in a 80 gallon tank 😭 i hate him, but i love him.
Really? I got 2 of them male and female and they are the most wussy fish I got the male is and female are both 5 inches long. The male is afraid of a 4 inch female Socolofi, 4inch yellow lab, and he is the biggest fish there. The female as well. And they are not new fish they were on of the first ones. Between afra and Auratus cichlid are my tank bosses
My tank is only 20 gallon so I don’t think can get these
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My yellow lab was a terrorist. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Miss him😢
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I guess the golden auratus doesn't fit in that group.
Not at all 😅
I am laughing because I had these and they were so pretty. I didn’t think they were too aggressive. But the tank was pretty large. They bread frequently
Did she mean herbivores are more peaceful than omnivores or did she say it right? That’s interesting if the herbivores are the more aggressive type.
I said it right
I'll sub if you supported the truckers?
With respect to Melanochromis auratus ... there are even nastier ones. ANY Petrotilapia will be a berserker. Then there's Melanochromis chipokae, which is a hardcore aquarium terrorist. All of those I would rate as expert only.
Among the other Mbuna that will be well behaved in the aquarium is Pseudotropheus minutus. But be careful with this one, as a beginner can confuse it with the much more aggressive Pseudotropheus elongatus. Make sure you obtain the genuine minutus.
You are probably not going to like me very much. While a person should have liberty to decide what he (including she) should keep and own. I am, personally, against hybrids or artificial breeds or releasing foreign animals into the "wild" unless there is an important reason to do so, such as fighting malaria.
I have successfully kept mean predator or herbivore fish with peaceful fish. Keyhole cichlids with Kribensis & Severum & Convict & Jewel & Ram & Silver Dollar & Black-skirted tetra & Giant Danio & Tiger Barb & Channel cat fish & Venustus without problems. And the Convict pair produced young.
Despite my love of peaceful fish, I have a love of both tanks with a combative environment and mean or tough or predatory fish, I have kept Dogtooth cichlid (Tematochromis dhonti), Trahira (Hoplias malabaricus), Red Devil (Amphilophus labiatus), Jaguar cichlid (Parachromis managuensis), Giant Red Killer Snakehead fish a.k.a. Giant Red Killer "channa " (Channa micropeltes), Texas cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus), Ring-tail Pike cichlid (Crenicichla saxatilis) Jack Dempsey (Roco octofasciata), Bowfin or Choupique (Amia calva), Green Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus), Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) as well as others but not all in the same tank at the same time. I was about 5 to 10 years older than you at that time.
The all leads up to the reason I posted; the very mbuna you hate the Golden auratus mbuna (Melanochromis auratus) that I loved. During that time I had breeding pair successfully raising young in a 75gallon long fish tank. This tank also held a male pike mbuna (Melanochromis chopokae), a male Bluegray mbuna (Melanochromis johanni), a male Maingano (Melanochromis cyaneorahbdos), Zebra mbuna (Maylandia zebra), three Kennyi mbuna (Maylandia lombardi), a male Bumblebee mbuna (Pseudotropheus crabo).
Bare with you?
Did you really just ask me that?
I have an electric yellow lab that is very aggressive and runs my whole tank. I'm having a problem with him bullying my Oscars that are still smaller then he is.
That would make sense. Oscars aren't compatible with African cichlids.
Yeah I saw some people being able to do it and some not so I thought I would try. I took the bully electric yellow out and put him in a breeder tank and the Oscar is doing so much better with the other peacocks firemouth and Africans. Actually the whole tank is doing better without the bully electric yellow and they're coloring up now.
The biggest issue with this video is that you overuse the fish’s technical name and not their common street names. It wouldn’t hurt to speak both names for the fish. Just a suggestion