Our Top 10 Favorite Cichlids!
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Our Top 10 favorite cichlids! We have a wide variety of cichlids, from African to American cichlids, and in today's video, we compiled a list of our current favorites.
We love all of our fish that we keep, but some definitely standout due to their color or personalities. This list is ever-changing, but we think this is a solid top 10!
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Thanks guys. I just watched my baby Oscar grow over the past 6 months. He just graduated to a 55 all by himself. Great content. 🌟🌟
Another enjoyable video - thx Cichlid Bros! The Lemon Oscar is my favorite with the True Parrot Cichlid being a very close second.
Green Terrors will always be #1 for me. Great video. Thanks (as always).
Thanks for watching, Jeff!
Absolutely,💯
How much do they cost?
Wao! Great video, Great selection, those Geophagus Tapajos are awesome!!!
And the Gold Saum, spectacular!!!
Thanks so much!
Discus are my dream. I am currently saving to special order 6 of my favorite discus variants. I knew I had to have them the first time I ever saw a photo of one. I don’t know what it is about them, but they’re glorious and unmatched. Everything about them I adore. I cannot WAIT to get my hands on a big, beautiful shoal of them. My life will then be complete 🥰❤️
Discus is very labour oriented hard back breaking maintenance fish to keep. A very high sensitive fish to keep. A slight variation in temperature, PH level and water TDS will bring disaster in your tank. Also the tank size has to be large to accommodate. Four times with fifty percent gravel vacuum water change is the must routine for this type. Grooming is very essential for this type, so lazy goers beware.
Nice video. These guys are the BTS of the fish keeping hobby.
Great list guys! I enjoy your channel great info and beautiful tanks.
Thank you. Much appreciated 👌🏻
Awesome. Had Bought some juvenile gt from my local shop. Will buy more. Thanks!
Great list, thanks!
Thank you!
Brilliant as always lads 💯
Thank you!
Cool list everyone has favorites mine are frontosa,angels,discus,bollvian ram,vieja,and acaras!
Great cichlids!
Great video, love your channel.
I bought a 125 gallon specifically to have a JD. I also got a few severums and I have to admit they really grew on me. So much so I bought a few more to make it 4 total. Great personalities, and I literally have to push them out of my way when I clean their tank.
Big Red is my favorite fish of yours, he's a good looking fish!
Thank you, appreciate that! Sounds like a great setup 👍🏻
Convict cichlids are by far my favorite. Especially Polar Blue Convicts.
Love it brother . Just got into cichlids with 6 angelfish hope it goes well and I can transition into more cichlids .. but my favorite would have to be the peacock bass 🖤
My fav is the Jaguar cichlid (Managuense). I love their color & their behavior.
I had one but he was really mean
Awesome Video.
Awesome video and Top 10 list. I probably would have put the Oscar as the number one cichlid but that's more because they are my favorite lol. Anyway really cool video and you guys just got a new fan out here. Hope you guys are having a great weekend.
Nothing beats the EBA for beauty- but the attitude!! I love how the Eyebiter is a “Fish that will really catch your eye”-🤣🤣🤣 I also love my Geo Winemilleri, Balzanii, Severums- & I’d love a Panda Uaru! Sooo, hard pressed to pick a favorite!
I accidentally ended up with a green terror only tank. They range from 2-5 inches. They're awesome, very kool to watch and they wear the most amazing war paint lol
I guess you know by now that they can reach 12”-🤣🤣🤣
Mines 12" that's the usual length for green terrors
I totally agree with the Green Terror being #1 . I have a pair that's spawned for me four time and they are amazing. Also have EBA and Silvani that I got from watching your videos. Had them for about two years now and truly enjoy them. Only cichlid I will never own again are convicts.
One of you bros really digs BLUE fish. So do I. Great video fellas.
I enjoyed this vid as I do all of them. I’m a Cichlid sister, and I can give thanks to my teacher, who many decades ago, introduced them to me, by having a tank in the classroom. You guys hold a special place in my ❤️ because of how I was introduced to the hobby. It’s no telling who you are influencing. ❤️❤️
Thank you - really appreciate that! Hope we can inspire more students, just like you were 👌🏻
Yeah, I just got a 75 gallon tank and I now plan to put an oscar in it. It’s gonna be awesome. It’s my first ever cichlid even though I have been in the hobby for 5+ years. They are the ones who inspired me to start saving for the supplies and fish
@@CichlidBros can I put a new Oscar about half the size of the one I have in my tank
Great choice
i 100% agree with Andinoacara rivulatus as your #1! ive had many of them over the years and they rarely disappoint, although a few of them were psychotic killing machines with almost snakehead attitudes. my second is the Faciatus 5 spot banded jewel!
Lovely all youre fish. And nice. Hope someday I got big tank..
Wow. Can’t believe how those fish have grown!
Cool vid guys!!!
Very nice looking set well done
Thank you!
Beautyfull video. My favourite is aplochromis venustus
Also I love the background on your tank the rock look. My tank has a permanent blue. I bought it from someone. It’s a 75 gallon
excellent work fellas
Thank you!
My favorite has to be the Firemouth. The intense red coloration and they're gill flaring among the other fishes makes them so unique.
Those were all beautiful but my favorite one is the 1 you started off with The electric blue akara
Nice video 👍👌🙏.. thank you
Love my jack Dempsey so happy he made it so high on your list.
My all time favorite cichlid is the bumblebee. So much spunk and personality in a small package.
I kept lake Malawai cichlids as a kid. Flowerhorns (or “Luo Han”, in Mandarin) were all the rage as a fish that symbolises luck, and I had NO IDEA until now that they were cichlids. In Asia, Flowerhorns are advertised and discussed quite differently and separately from the other cichlids.
Great video! Loved the breakdowns and fully agree with #1. But blood parrots with their beautiful color and personalities...they didn't make this list?!? I love my 2 BPs and GT.
Hi,very Nice fish!!!
Thanks!
I’ve got to say out of all the cichlids my turquoise Severum has got to be my favorite
Bolivian Rams are the cutest things and have some pretty neat behaviors. They never get any love in these lists and I think they are amazingly.
Love Oscar's, Flower Horn, Green Terror & Jack Dempsey....but all time favorite and didn't make your list is the True Festae aka Red Terror. A beautiful fish!
I absolutely love the electric blue acara💙🐟🐠
Same! They’re amazing fish!
Hmmm, this is a hard list to come up with as there are so many I love. I'll have to think about this and compile my list.
C. festivum. Good community fish for a medium size cichlid, had C. severum, plecostomus in same tank. Deep body, diagonal black stripe, beautiful breeding color.
Wonderful videos...for me hands down Oscars
Gotta go w the Discus. Their extremely challenging I currently don’t live in an area where I can offer them the correct ph levels in the water I have. But they are such a rewarding go big or go home fish. They thrived where I was w em originally however soon as I moved water conditions changed & I literally watched em all wither away d die on me. Devastated but still love em
It's Sevrum as I love how it's easy it is to keep them and offcourse their colour and personality.
I’m from the uk some times i struggle with the accent so yours is a golden ? Love the your fish
Electric blue Acara are my fav! I just got mine to spawn :)
The electric blue acara is very pretty also. And flowerhorns are awesome & I do have them. Their biggest downfall is their a one fish tank. Which makes for Alota wasted space. I love my 2 Jacks. Ones super dark the others almost see thru. So wow no discus or angels made your list.
Green Terror and Flowerhorns are the best!
Love them!
Great presentation.. My favorite cichlid all cichlids from lake Tanganyika.
My favorite fish is the jewel fish, Jack dempsey, and peacocks
I have 2 jewels and a jack Dempsey
Great video, even better teamwork!! I'm trying to decide on doing a cichlid tank again or semi-aggresive freshwater with Arrowana, Arnate bichir, green terror, 2 iridescent sharks, red terror maybe a cichlid or 2. Always loved the look and personality of firemouth cichlid. Mbuna cichlids or gorgeous but are aggressive. Peacock cichlids are always very gorgeous, but less aggressive. Fyi. Thanks guy's.
Please be mindful that Iridescent sharks grow VERY fast and can reach lengths of 5 feet
Happy to own your top 2 picks..haha
My King Kong parrot cichlid is full of personality! Not always pleasant, lol, but funny!
Jack dempsey, oscar and flowerhorns are charming ciklids
Awesome Video my favorite 2 Cichlids are Jack Dempseys and Convicts.
Thanks! Great choices 👌🏻
I just recently picked up an Electric Blue Acara, after watching this video cool fish.
I got two Jack Dempseys.
I love my Electric Blue Jack Dempsey!
Favourite Cichlid I own is my Cuban-
Cichlid I would like to try keep is the Vieja Argentea. Your Green Terror is amazing.
Can’t believe the Salvini didn’t make too 10!
Very nice! I’ve considered getting a Cuban recently. The Salvini is great, but has been pretty frustrating/aggressive of late. Still an awesome fish tho!
I currently have German Blue and Bolivian Rams. There's so much personality in a small package. I've had Frontosa, Jack Dempsey and yellow labs in the past and I absolutely loved them all!
Can't go wrong with any of those!
@@CichlidBros can't forget the Kribensis, too! Soooooooooooooooooo much attitude in a little fish!
The black widow Frontosa and Peacock Bass are my favorites.
Agreed with your TOP 1 :)
Amizing vídeo brou!!!!
Thanks!
Electric blue acara are my favourite then the true blue acara. Both gorgeous fish.
I like the wildtype form of a species.
My favorite cichlid is Cyphotilpia Frontosa. I have a colony in a 180 gallon. Mine come from collection point Kitumba.
Hey that was Aquarium Adventure!!!
Haha yep! I live close by and go there often
My favorite is the Midas cichlid and also Severums
Good Stuff....Angelfish....Hoorah!!
My friend got me into this hobby but he recently got a 150 gallon with discus, severums, and 3 blood parrots don’t know how but he did it
I have an Electric Blue Acara and a key hole Cichlid, there like puppy dogs when I clean inside their tank they follow my hand around the tank around.
Some of the Cichlids that i got are 2 Oscar cichlids, 1 Red Devil, 1 Salvini cichlid, 1 Redhead cichlid, 1 Zebra tilapia, 6 Jack Dempsey cichlids, Many Convict cichlids, 4 Blood Parrot cichlids, 1 Cuban cichlid and a Red Dragon Flowerhorn cichlid
I got three firemouth's I love them.
After seeing ur green terror I also bought 1 setting up a 120 gallon
My 10 favorites cichlids are: Ornatums, Escondido, Grammodes, Umbee, Festae, Chancho, Beani, Red Jewel, Stalsbergi (True Green Terror), pink Convict.
eba are my fav...i kept them in my planted aquarium...
Awesome
Midas cichlid currently but I'm looking to purchase a trimac cichlid pretty soon
My Cuban Cichlid pair and my Srd Flowerhorn pair.
Livingstonii, it started my love for Malawi’s, I love it’s unique behavior and hunting strategies in the wild.
That’s a great one. I picked one up a few months back and he’s been climbing my ranks!
@@CichlidBros yeah he is good looking fish, I love it, mine is the only fish that will eat from my hand. Lol
I bought a Livingstoni a year ago and he was about 2 inches long. Hes like 6 or 7 inches long now and amazing colors. Problem is he is to big and aggressive for my 75 gallon tank
i have oscar girl and 6 tapajos :) amazing fish
My current favorite, a year after setup, is the Rusty cichlid, think it’s colors will keep popping if keep tank right.
Electric yellow for me, but the JD is right behind. Idk very many of the others. I have seen some awesome 1s. None other mentioned on this video aside from the JD.
Got one tiger Oscar and one red Oscar i enyoy your guys fishes
Oscar are boring because when they finish to eat they will sleep
@Small Wagon your just wrong
Does Planted tank recomended for Chichlids? I have 67 gallon tank with drift wood, jave fern, anubias, grass and moss.
I Love Your Oscar Bro, I currently have Hundred of Blue Polar Cichlids in my 3 20Gallon Tanks I'm planning to sell then and upgrade my Tank to 100 Someday and buy some oscar and flowerhorn😍
Jack Dempsey and Jewel fish are my two favorite cichlids
I got a question I saw petco had a flowerhorn and was wondering 1 can a flower be in the tank with other fish like a convict and a electric blue jack Dempsey. 2 can they be in a 55 gallon
Great presentation however you just added to my frustration . I am a novice fish keeper with a 150 gallon tank . But do to lack of experience to don't how to utilize it . I have holey honeycomb rock and sand .I would like to use different levels of tank bottom middle and top . Maybe you can give me some suggestions to put in tank and how many . It would be much appreciated .
hi i have a question for you, i have two convict cichilds , but my question si why they never come out from they cave, i changed the cave from rocks and is the same thing is all the time inside the rocks, why is that
Never kept them, but I really like the body plan of rams.
Hi ther hey yall tanks look beautiful an the fish's have question wen fish tweaking what do that mean is there anything wrong with the fish and I had some fried in a 10 gallon
I always liked the cherry red zebra and the blue brichardi.
Xingu I Pike, Zebrina Pike, Parachromis loiselli, and Altolamplogus calvus, German blue rams!!!
How u going Mate?
Can you pls make some more videos on the Balzani? These fish need to get famous.
Red Dragon Cichlids, I have 2 of them & 3 Blue Acara,s. 1 fluro blue & 2 grey & black who are starting to mate.
Any top 10 favorites or recommendations list for 2022.. im trying to binge watch your playlists.. 😅
We have a few! Here’s one: Top 10 Favorite Central American Cichlids
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@@CichlidBros thanks
My favourites is the Oscar .. but im looking into others because cichlids have such character :)
My two favurite cihlids are German Blue Ram and Oscars!
Brother Alec, consider a Red Fin Borelyi!!! When they “transform” they’re amazing. I got mine a year ago at 2” and he’s a good 5 1/2” now and he just recently evolved into a beautiful specimen! Couldn’t imagine my 125g without it now!
Noted! I’ve thought about one for awhile, as it’s taken awhile for the haps to grow and I have been wanting more color. Maybe soon!
Had one also and they are a must.