Meet the Keyhole Cichlid | Species Profile
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Meet the Keyhole Cichlid | Species Profile
In todays video we explore the slightly timid Keyhole Cichlid!
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0:00 Intro
1:17 Size & Behaviour
1:54 Tank Size & Parameters
2:33 Feeding
2:49 Tankmates 
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We love ours. He's absolutely lovely. ❤
cool
Thanks... I think they are cool too :)
Would a pair then be okay for a 130litre? Informative video, thanks :)
Yes they would :)
Hi there. Thank you for the wonderful video.
My tank is long and shallow and 170cm/5.6 feet long. HEAVILY planted and with endless amount of roots, branches and houseplants/ferns growing out of it with their fine and dense roots. It is really designed for dwarf cichlids in mind.
A lot of cherry and amano shrimps in there. Too many to keep track of really. Do you think African Butterfly Cichlids would pick them off and put a dent into the shrimp population? I don't mind them eating some of the shrimp babies because there's a limit to how many shrimps one "needs" but.... Yeah. What do you and your viewers think?
Hello! My view is that African Butterfly Cichlids would make short work of your shrimp, likely to the point that you would have none left. Shrimp particularly dwarf shrimp would be a primary diet of choice for Cichlids c. 6cm in length.
Even the Keyhole cichlids, which this video focuses on would predate on most small shrimp.
@@BigFishLittleFishAquatics Such a bummer. The tank is perfect for dwarf cichlids but for almost a year amono shrimps and christal red shrimps have colonized the tank, thriving and working hard.
@@HalifaxCollect Yeah, it can a pain when finding a fish to 'mix' with shrimp, there are many nano fish available in the hobby however, so may be worth having a look at some of them :)
Can they be kept with neon and ember tetra’s or are they too large when they mature to adulthood?
9 times out of 10 they can be kept safely with Neon's and other Tetras. There is always the element of risk with Cichlids as they grow to become aggressive. However in my experience I have yet to meet an aggressive Keyhole. Embers I would say are on the smaller scale, and could be considered a snack for a fully grown Keyhole, so long term I'd go with the Neons and maybe a serpae, to give you the red :)
Hello from the South/East, Havering, Essex 🇬🇧. I got one of these Saturday, It's in with my Dwarf cichlids, and I will get another soon. I always buy 1 at 1st 'just in case', it's doing fine.
No one seems to be able to tell me with certainty the true difference between a Dwarf Cichlid & a fish that doesn't grow big but ISN'T a Dwarf Cichlid.
Hooray! Glad it is going well :) Dwarf Cichlids are typically a term for a Cichlid that doesn't exceed 10cm in length :)
@BigFishLittleFishAquatics Yeah but other fish that don't exceeded that size are not classed as Dwarf for some reason. 🇬🇧
@@DavidJHarrisonEssex Yeah, I hear you, you mainly find Cichlids, fish or any animal for that matter referred to as dwarf when another fish/animal that looks similar is larger than the other. Just one of the ways people like to label and classify anything... best thing to do is ignore it and stick to the scientific names and their size :)
Please avoid this black-white gravel. What about Sand? Looks more naturaly.
This is footage from my local fish shop, helps ensure that regardless the type of fish, they pop in the environment.
Gravel is much more sensible when you need to perform regular water changes as sand inherently will just get sucked up.