The Mbuna Aquarium - Lake Malawi African Cichlids
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Mbunas, are the perfect fish for beginners. Their colors are flamboyant, breeding is easy, they are robust and, above all, intelligent.
In this video, I explain everything you need to know to set up your Mbuna aquarium
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0:00 Intro
0:42 What is an Mbuna?
1:44 Compatibility, behavior, habitat
4:35 Breeding
7:32 Diet
9:55 What species are Mbunas?
12:12 Outro
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🌎Konings, A., Tanganyika Cichlids in their Natural Habitat: goo.gl/5Sg1qB
🌎Konings, A., Tropheus their Natural Habitat : goo.gl/zj6dpT
🌎Konings, A., Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat: goo.gl/DgQ3Rd
🌎Konings, A., Back To Nature : Malawi Cichlids: goo.gl/FxBXfa
🌎Konings, A., Back To Nature : Tanganyika Cichlids: goo.gl/xyoy5w
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Beautiful video
One thing I’m still a little confused about: should the fish that are herbivores eat molluscs, crustaceans, fish meal etc? My mbuna fish food seems to contain some of those too as well as spirullina and vegetable matter.
@@thepurpletortoise5794 Mbuna main diet is more vegetation based which is strange considering they don't have many plants in the natural habitat.
When I see a videos like this,you just think how amazing nature really is to provide everything nature does to these fish we have to work so hard to mimic it! Thanks for the videos you really explain well.
Excellent video Rochelle! Very organized and useful content. You have served the Mbuna Cichlid community well! 👏🏻👏🏻
I really enjoyed this video , in particular the way you explain everything in Detail !
Thanks for sharing and I’ve decided to Subscribe for more of your Videos 🙏🏼
I’ve never kept Cichlids but hope to soon. I found your video very interesting and well presented. Thankyou for making and sharing this nice production.
Enjoy your interesting video, very helpful. Thanks Richelle!!!
I just got some mbuna today for my new tank!
Love this video. You speak with such love and joy for your vocation. Wonderful and useful information. I hope people will be generous with their aquascapes.
Thank you
Amazing video, thanks for posting.
Hi Richelle. Great info as always. Thanks for sharing
Hi Eric. Thank you for your comment. :)
This is a very engaging and informative video. Thank you!
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it 🥰
Nice video! Loads of information and well delivered. Switched to African cichlids about a year ago and I love them, so much to learn about them.. awesome fish!
Thank you. 😎
African cichlids are the best
Very informative video with personal insight that I really appreciate. Thank you!
Very smart and well explained. Learned a lot!
I've come to really enjoy your channel. Thank you for the information.
I'm glad you like it. Thanks for your comment.
Always great advise!! Thank you.
you are so smart and informative. i love your content. and i love my mbunas!!!
Great information! Ty for sharing!
Loving the video
Great job on the video, I love mbuna!!
Thank you :D
Amazing and informative video. Thank you for explaining about Mbunas so well. I am about to embark on a journey of keeping african cichlids for the first time and I will greatly benefit from this. :)
I'm glad you liked the video. Good luck on your new journey 🥰
Your videos are so helpful I just got African cichlids as a present for my 75 aquarium I mostly only had catfish types and loaches so this is my first time keeping cichlids so I’m just reading and looking up on RUclips just trying to learn as much as I can
That's the best thing you can do. I'm glad my videos were able to help you 😊
Great information, thanks.
Great video ! Subbed from Alberta . Thanks!
Thank you for this video. I have been watching a lot of videos on how to start a cichlids tank. I'm moving in to the cichlids world from planted tanks. Your videos are most helpful than the other videos. I'm in Toronto. I'm going to checkout your website. I hope you ship to Toronto.
Excellent video!!!
Thank you :)
Great Video. Getting back into it after a 10 year break. 32 gallon, leaning towards Labs, Demasoni and/or Afras.
Thank you :) Welcome back to fish keeping. We can never stay away, no matter how hard we try lol. Those fish are always swimming in our brains.
Wow you are explaining beautifully
Yes. This was a great video. Great references.
Thank you 😀
Great content. You’ve earned a new subscriber
Thank you
Love your channel
You are awesome! Great info! Love the passion... 💗 Thank You! Subscribed! 👍
Thanks for watching :D Welcome to my channel!
QuebecCichlides 💃
Great video...Very informative...ty
I love your video, I’m researching what cichlid to put in my tank and I’m sure I’ll find out from watching your videos 😁 from Ontario
Thanks for watching :D I have 2 other videos similar to this one in this playlist. It's mainly african cichlids but I'll be doing more videos in this series soon.
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Amazing thanks heaps for sharing your knowledge with the world.
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it :D
Very informative, great video :)
Love Mbuna as well!
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Great video very interesting
you guys are doing an amazing job!!!!!!
Thank you😊
No, no, she is spreading misinformation
Great job keep them coming☺
Thank you :D
Very helpful. Thx.
Thumbs up great information good job
+COOPER'S CICHILDS Glad you liked it. Thank you 😊
I just set up a 75 gallon mbuna aquarium and I tried to get less aggressive mbuna. I went with 4 groups of 7 species. They are all 1" -2" juveniles. I went for lower aggression and a good diversity of color. Here are the groups:
Pseud. acei
Labidochromis caeruleus
Iodotropheus sprengerae ''Rusty"
Chindongo socolofi
The Chindongo socolofi are the largest but don't seem aggressive at all. Eventually they will be the smallest species in there so it is probably good they have a bit of a head start. I am looking forward to watching them all grow. They are already fun to watch.
Great info..nice video like always..
Thank you Angelo :)
Awesome video just coming over to the dark side of cichlids just researching if I was to go peacocks or mbunas videos very informative and well spoken, plus your gorgeous :)
She looks like an alien wtf are you talking about, clearly you haven’t had much experience with women or you’re fat idk 😐
Wow very imformative! Didnt skip any!
Thank you😊
great video, very good information and thanks for sharing...
Thank you for your comment :) I'm glad you liked it.
Good job Richelle! :)
really enjoy your videos
Thank you 😊
Just subbed nice info Thanks
great video
Very very informative!! Thanks 👍🏼
Thank you
Super video ! Merci pour les infos.
Ça fait plaisir :) Merci pour le commentaire
Wow what an amazing video so informative great information of all the videos on RUclips that I’ve seen yours are the best You can tell that you love cichlids African cichlids that is in me and you really seem to know your stuff
I didn’t mean to say I know my stuff I meant to say you know your stuff that was a typo
Thanks for your comment Steven. I got what you meant😂
Nice video...beautiful the lake Malawi i dived in these places.
That must have been an amazing experience. Where did you dive?
@@QuebecCichlides Hi,it's great to dive.I've been to many places...beyond in Italy,many times in Egypt(red sea)Tanzania(Zanzibar)Malawi(for my passion for cichlids),Madagascar,Cuba,Dominican Republic,Haiti,Belize,Mexico(also for cichlids)Maldives,Philippines,Vietnam,Cambodia,Thailand(where i did underwater driving).In Malawi i was in 1999 the digital world was not at beginning,i have a lot of slides underwater and above and 8 hours of video fotage with 8mm video camera....i have known Stuart Mr.Grant.Do you have a cichlid shop?
Thank you 👍
Very good information.
Thank you.
Nice information about that fish
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.
Bonjour! Je suis ici dans Alberta. Mon Francaise est tres malade!😁 But sometimes I just have to try. Nice to see a Canadian here in the Hobby.
I wish one of the shops here was here on RUclips.
Love your videos. So informative. Love from India.
Thank you 😊
Realy very nice video.
Thank you.
Très bien fait.... merci!! J't'encore nouveau avec les cichlidés, jusqu'à présent j'ai des apistos, des anges et des xingus, en communauté avec beaucoup d'autres. Quand c'est le temps, je saurai où regarder.
Bienvenue dans le hobby :) Je suis contente que tu aies aimé le vidéo.
J'ai plusieurs articles sur mon site web à propos des cichlidés.
Bonne lecture :
www.quebec-cichlides.com/articles/
Nice fishes💛
Thank you so much for sharing your information and experience! I’m trying to learn more about cichlids as most of what I know is on the planted side. (If I could make one suggestion that’s purely an aesthetic one: the music is lovely but could be turned down just a touch)
Oh yeah... This is an old video.😅 I turned it down since then.
Excellent RUclipss thanks. I'm beginning fishtank person :)
Merci pour les infos
Ça fait plaisir :) Merci pour votre commentaire.
Fantastic information. A very well presented and accurate video. Glad you hit on the hybrid issue/problem.
I have footage of Malawain fish setup in large, natural displays. Feel free to use if needed for a future vid. Cheers.
Thank you so much!!!
I'm working on my next installment of this series on Haps.
This video is beautiful. If you don't mind me using it, I'll give you a heads up in the Hap video ❤️️
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QuebecCichlides Thank you and you have my permission to use any footage I have on my RUclips channel for your quality and educational videos.
You are ssooo aaweesome !!
Thank you
I'm glad you dealt with the issue of bastardized species. One African Cichlid specialist store in the states had an online discussion with his clients and most of them concluded that it was OK to cross the species, not dispose of them as the "humane" thing to do and resell them.
Probably the most aggrieved area, more so than the Mbunas, is with the Aulnocara (Peacocks) species. It's very rare to find a classic Red Shoulder Peacock in good color these days, but there are plenty of nondescript blue ones out there with made up names. Private sellers try to enhance sales by offering "new" species that really aren't. It drives me nuts.
Hi Pal, Thanks for your comment.
Hybridization is a subject not talked about enough and not taken seriously enough.
I often get new clients who show me their "beautiful" tank that's full of hybrids. When I tell them, they always have a disappointed look on their faces. They don't have "real" african cichlids :(
Cool video, i also keep cichlids 👍🏻👍🏻
Good stuff. Subscribed. Honestly I keep different Mbunas together in my 75g. I just don't sell or trade the Hybrids. I let them live their lives if they survive.
This is first video I have viewed from your channel ... You are quite informative, I get it when you say that as an aquarium hobbyist it's up to us to keep the species pure I would like to know your opinion on hybrid fishes like parrot fish and flowerhorn . Thank you
They're not my favorite, but I honestly don't mind it as much as if somebody does random mixes in their tanks and then tries to sell them off as pure breds.
Parrots and Flowerhorns were professionally "created" in a controlled environment.
Thanx
Brilliant video.
Thank you
New to your channel and a new subscriber as well. This was one of the most informative videos I have seen in a long time. I am new to Cichlids and your info was very helpful. Right now I only have room for a 40 breeder. Any help you offer in what to stock and how many will be much appreciated. Looking forward to viewing more of your videos. Thanks in advance for the advice..
Hi John, welcome to the hobby :)
If you liked Mbunas, check out my list. You can inspire yourself with it.
I separated the different lakes and groups, making it easy to spot compatibility: :
www.quebec-cichlides.com/livestock?cat=1
Good video, new subscriber #1,931.... #MightyMbuna. 👍
Thanks. Welcome to my channel 😊
good love
Great video as always and u are gorgeous
Dear Richelle, Thank you for your videos - I love them!
I have two questions about aragonite substrate 1-2 or 2-3mm size:
- Will mbunas be capable to sift it through their gills?
- Is it ok to plant plants in this substrate?
I am new to your channel and so glad I found it. Your videos I have seen thus far are all awesome. I have been debating whether or not to go down this path. I only have space for a 30 gallon tank and I see a lot of conflicting info about Mbuna, Would you recommend the Universal Holey Rock as a good aquascape for them to help control aggression? I really like the look of that and I would also plan to add some individual rocks and/or caves with maybe a few artificial plants. I have never seen the hanging plants you reference but I love that idea. Your thoughts are very much welcome and appreciated.
Bitch never answered 😂
Nice video..i enjoy hybrids tho
Nice vedio
Thank you :)
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Richelle. I always enjoy your videos as you are very knowledgeable and informative. Also have to say that I’ve never heard a Latin identification with a French accent!!
Hi Jim. Thanks for your comment. That's why I write the names down when I say them, so we don't get lost in translation lol.
I learned from the best here in Quebec. They didn't speak english so I learned all of the terms in french. Conveniently, french is closer to latin than english. Technically, I'm saying them right-ish :P
QuebecCichlides yes you are. I love it! I took French in high school and understand a bit still...I work for the NHL and hear a lot from the players who come from your part of Canada.
Well if ever you get in a conversation with the players about Cichlids, at least you'll be able to understand them from listening to me :D
... If ever you talk about cichlids to NHL players though, I hope you mention my store back from their hometown lol.
I have a pre-filter sponge on my canister intake it's like everything I put it on I haven't little particles floating but if I take it off my water becomes crystal clear I do keep the sponge clean I just don't understand what do you think I should do are condo World The Fan will get into the filter like I said that sponge is clean I just have particles floating around when it's on there when it's not my water is crystal clear
I love this video, it is great. I gave it a thumbs up. 👍
I would like to help with the aquascape, the only problem however I have moved away from Aulonocara and went more towards Mbuna. But I might be doing another Aulonocara set up in the near future.
I Subscribed to your awesome channel.
The food I give to the Mbuna and Haplochromis is: Ocean Nutrition Cichlid Vegi Flakes.
I have one question: What Brand of food do you give the Mbuna Cichlids?
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you :)
I'm currently working on my Hap video.
I don't have a date for the upload yet as I only have the table of contents written down😂
(You gotta start somewhere)
The Aulonocara video is already up. Check it out, it might inspire you 🤓
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I have found all your videos so helpful. Im limited due to space but what would be better for yellow labs and maingano's... A 40 breeder or a 55? I know the 40 actually has more surface space while the 55 is taller. Which one do you think would be better? And how many can I stock in it? And last question... If they're juveniles, how long can I keep them in the tank before having to upgrade them to a larger tank? Thank you so much!
I own a group of tropheus canary cheek. They are an algea grazer from lake tang.
I just bought a yellow lab can i feed it pellets for goldfish?
There are so many conflicting opinions online regarding tank size for african cichlids. what cichlid would be fine in a 38 gallon tank?
Hi, I been watching your videos on here and love the mbunas fish you have and would and would love if any way I can order fish from you? If you sale them, I live in Ohio and your in Canada if I'm correct? I would like or know what website you have so I can order some.
I have a 40 gallon breeder tank with 4 juvenile yellow labs ....what other fish I can put with them and how many ?
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Hey how many mabunas cichlid can I keep in 25 gallon tank??
@quebeccichlides I have a 90 gallon Cichlid tank and have a few questions.
1) I have 35 Mbunas, 1 Jewel and 1 Plecostomus. Is that going to be too many fish for my tank?
2) can I add some catfish, Peacocks and a Giraffe?
3) with this many fish how often should I change the water? I’ve been doing about a 30% change once a month.
4) Two weeks ago I added a dozen live plants. So far they’ve completely destroyed two of them. Should I give up on plants or will they eventually leave them alone?
5) I have a Rio 2500 submergible pump, I would like to know if you can recommend a battery back up that will keep my pump running in case power goes out when I’m not home?
Thanks for your advice!!!
I know you are speaking on mbuna's but OB Peacocks are some popular fish and are not frowned upon. They are hybrids.
Exactly, so are flowerhorns. Frankly, the hybrid argument/guilt trip is asinine.
Dopada mi se svaki tvoj video.Sve pohvale .Da li mogu da te zamolim da snimis video o Pseudotropgeus Demasonima?To su mi omiljene ribe
Hi Milan. That's a great idea for a future project. I noticed that I talk a lot about them throughout my videos. I too think that they should have their own spotlight like I did with the Labidochormis caeruleus.
Here is a very short video I made last december of P. demasoni. I had a whole aquarium full. ruclips.net/video/xTJi5ywMhIk/видео.html
QuebecCichlides slazem se sa tobom .Ocekujem od tebe video o Demasonima 🙋
Hello thats a nice set up....
had a query regarding mbunas.Since you are an expert...
What are the reasons for sunken belly in mbunas....??they are eating but sunken belly not going...
What can be done?? I feed my fish twice a day.....dont want to over feed and encounter issues...
Would be great if you could advice...
That can either be
- unhealthy cheap food that doesn't fill them up.
- Age
- Females that breed a lot get skinny
- parasites due to poor water quality
i like your mbunas richelle
Thank you :D
I have a few hybrids in my tank but not worried about it because i dont sell or give away my fish...and they look fine to me...still colourful and interesting.
+MELODY MUNRO Hybrids can happen. Don't worry about it 😉
What kind of hybrids are they?? What crossbred?
I have yellow lab, red zebra, yellow tail acei , afra cobue, Pseudotropheus perspicax and rusty's in the tank. My tank boss is a large Hongi and I think they could be his ...or they are the offspring of the lone afra cobue...my yellow lab females seem to be the ones who have the hybrid fry....the hybrid fry are dark blue with darker stripes..there's probably 5 or 6 hybrid fry in there - maybe more as I have a lot of rocks. I have never sold or given any away. I'm a bit of a softy. If a fry is smart enough to survive then I will try and give it a good life. I still get fry that look pure as well...I just enjoy them all.
Ditto! But I respect her opinion on hybrids.
Great Video,
Question, I have a mature mbuna 55 gallon tank with adults & 1 jack dempsey. How long do any new juvenile mbuna fish need to be at to safety add to tank?
Hi Michael,
Sorry it took so long to get back to you.
Every tank is different. If the fish are big, wait until your juvies are at least 2 inches long....even then, that might be cutting it short.
This being said, this size will work for some and not for others.
Add the fish in schools, move the decorations around and, most important, look at your tank.
In the beginning, the fish will run after each other but if it doesn't stop and you think it's dangerous for your fry, move them back to the growing tank.
QuebecCichlides thanks 4 reply.
Unfortunately one juvenile was eaten. Ready for next time.
Hi Richelle,
What is the daily protein requirement for Mbuna, Peacock? My question includes herbivore, omnivore, carnivore daily protein requirement.
Check out this video for your answer :
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