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Some helpful tips on feeding your Cichlids.

Fish Guy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:46:47 +0000

Provide different type of foods for your cichlids, Giving them a variety of food type will give them all the nutrients they need in sufficient amounts.

Be sure to give live foods on your Cichlids on just a small amounts, especially if the fish havent eaten a live food for quite some time, Tendencies that might happen is that the fish might gobble up a food and may become overfeed causing the fish to have some intestinal problem and in some cases could kill the fish.

You should vary the fish food or morsel size depending on your fish size, so the bigger your cichlids are the bigger morsel the fish can eat. Small or baby fish should only be given with a food no larger than his eyes, you may increase the food size as the fish grows.

Fully grown cichlids should only be fed twice, Feeding it more than that does not help the fish instead it just may cause the aquarium water to get polluted and also make the fish overfed.

Baby fish can be fed 4 times a day, Feeding them this often is necessary to help the fish grow faster.

Give the fish a food as much as they can consume within 10 minutes.

Arrange a day of fasting each week for a fully grown Cichlids

Turning off the filter while feeding the fish so that no fish food will get suck will help keep the water quality at its best.

A pair of Jack Dempsey Cichlids

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The Natural Environment of Cichlids.

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:44:04 +0000

The Natural Environment of Cichlids.

Loose Rocks, Rocky Shorelines.

A rocky shoreline is the underwater zone of steep, rocky banks, such as found primarily on lakes Tanganyika and Malawi. Such a shoreline is characterized by a big rocks piled on top of each other. . The way the rocks have come to rest creates innumerable caves of various size, into which the cichlids can retreat when they sense danger. This type of littoral zone is the typical habitat of algae eating mouth brooder such as cichlids of genus Tropheus

Sandy Bottom and Muddy Bottom.

Muddy bottoms usually occur at inlets where rivers enters a lake and where floating particles carried by the moving water settle. Here , too, cichlids , such as Triglachromis otostigma, are found.

Shore With and Without Vegetation.

Shores with dense vegetation and small, shallow bodies of water filled with plant growth also are environment that cichlids have adapted to. Several Pelvicachromis species, for instance, use such regions as a regular habitat and as an area of retreat.

Photo Credits: www.thetropicaltank.co.uk

The Cichlids Family

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:00:48 +0000

Most cichlids are characterized by beautiful colors and markings. Even within the same species different shades and patterns can develop a phenomenon that is called polymorphism.
There is such a variety of shapes and sizes among the many cichlids species that even experience fanciers of aquarium fishes often are surprised. Thus, the “giant” within the family measure from 28 to 32 inches (70-80cm), whereas the smallest members are fully grown at as little as 1.4 inches ( 3.5cm).

The body shapes of various species also vary tremendously. Most cichlids have typical slender fish shape, but in different species this shape can be vary from “normal” to “pencil shaped” a few species are high backed, that is, they have steeply arched backs; and some, like the popular discus fishes, are almost completely round and flat.