SMARTEST, MOST Beautiful, but Most AGGRESSIVE Fish: Central American Cichlids

[@CabanasBeats]

i love american cichlids. everyone seems to be obsessed with crappy african cichlids. americans are so much more interesting to look at & their personalities are awesome.

[@thomashamilton2761]

You gotta check out the african x s american chiclids most of the hybrids colors will blow u away

[@jacksonrieb1231]

For sure, my favorite tank on KZbin. Thank you for continuing to upload!

[@MakoyUnggoy]

It's always good to see how everyones getting on in the various tanks you keep!

[@LB-eb1pk]

Hey man just want to say your success with a large CA community has inspired me to give it a shot. Keep it up brother it’s just you and maybe a couple other people doing this thing!

[@FreeSwimmer]

This is a very detailed video. It helps me with future thoughts and plans with the 300g i recently built and stocked. I have a mix of South and Central in it. Several of the same fish as you.

[@bhelm252]

ty for this it was very informational. like the setups as well

[@JG.6768]

If you didn't mention the substrate, I wouldn't have even noticed. The fish are so beautiful, and they are the largest focal point in the aquarium. That's my dream Tank size the 300 to 350 gallon aquarium. Would you recommend acrylic over glass for a tank that size? All your tanks are beautiful!

[@dwsdarius]

Thank you, acrylic at this size is so much lighter than glass, it only took two guys to move it vs glass that probably would need 6 or more guys. For that reason I'd choose acrylic over glass, just be very careful when cleaning algae from the panels because its scratches very easily

[@MyHomeExperiments]

I agree, CA group is also my favorite and I find them to be most entertaining. Your festae, bifasciatus and that peacock bass with the hump look amazing.

[@dwsdarius]

Thank you!

[@jaycee4525]

Beautiful setup and fish! 🔥

[@dwsdarius]

Thank you!

[@twasbrillig33]

The pike as always 😍🥰

[@Daveaconklin]

The quickness I click on this lol glad to see ya post, brother. Thanks for the update!

[@crumtv3067]

Gorgeous fish.

[@awcm1507]

very nice tank

[@thewaterdenken1213]

Absolutely love this tank and it's inhabitants, love central American cichlids, the veja family is just beautiful

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

beautiful batch of fish. especially the vieja

[@okapi323]

The coloring on the queen of the of the tank is so interesting. Stunning fish.

[@gowthams2865]

What is the variety of this queen fish !?

[@harrisonhanson2998]

After watching this I think I’d like to make my larger tank more natural looking.

[@moonlightman7885]

stunning fish

[@coolfinsaquatics590]

My boy u back ❤✊🏾

[@stoneysscapes7544]

Hey Darius , It's definitely an EZ 8 !!! Tanks are always so healthy and interesting in every area, especially like the way you hand selected the hardscape . That reminds me of something Cory had brought up over some of the recent Aquarium CO-OP short video's which are just really condensed from some older videos , like the one showing how to start the siphon + techniques on the gravel vacuum !!! Have you ever considered something like that? You totally could do that with the video where you went to look for driftwood and so many other GREAT videos that might be a good idea to make a good short and see if it is worth it??? ♤♡◇♧

[@Gilsfishroom]

Love the Argentea!

[@1980ify]

That Paratilapia Polleni is too good to be Real

[@dt45er]

Nice tanks and awesome collection of cichlids bro. Post more videos when u can

[@CichlidsWithAttitude]

Beautiful specimens

[@stvnivan]

well done, please keep continue your content especially for the 350g (south/central american cichlids)

[@anggr4549]

Love the veija

[@kingdommind1266]

Cool video I didn’t know fish have hierarchy, is it like this in the wild ?

[@thewaterdenken1213]

Any advice on where to obtain some of these would be greatly appreciated

[@murilomonteiro6674]

beautiful tank! what food do you offer to the fish?

[@deathbyfishtanks]

Hey, what did you call the fish at @9:08? It’s my favorite of all your fish.😁

[@dwsdarius]

Red terror cichlid, mesoheros festae

[@carltalley5598]

Gorgeous tank, I like Red Terror, the Bredohri, Midas, and the Dovi, what diazepam tank is that I am very surprised no killing…

[@chico6085]

More videos like this bro 🤣 he doesn't respect the black belt 🤣🤣🤣 hilarious but a very accurate statement

[@ВиталийЛюбитель]

Супер рыбы! Спасибо большое за видео!

[@phillymanpete]

Slammin Tank!

[@jsaquaticX]

[@atharvsawant7190]

I am from india, i loved to see a beautiful vieja collection. Soul satisfied, i have multiple verities of vieja in collection also. I feed them 3 types of hikari food And shrimp once a week. What do you feed these adults? Please share i like that thickness and shape of your fish. Thank you in advance 🙂

[@gowthams2865]

5:05 can you please name the cichlid name !? I never heard of

[@dwsdarius]

Pearsei cichlid

[@bayou504ctcL9]

Loving Dat Madagascar female Polleni cichlid she very beautiful, what's her size ? n my favorite central cichlid is the Argentea 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 they all look amazing

[@ryanrogers8211]

Regarding your American tank I think it looks great. I’d suggest adding 1-2 inches of garden soil and 6 inches of sand on top. Then plant heavily with hearty plants halfway into the sand.

[@CabanasBeats]

wouldnt they just get eaten?

[@NateJ-c8x]

You could use a tile bottom.

[@wabalaka1565]

Dude, want to be ugly by choice. What a Chad fish😂

[@oscardean6351]

That’s a beautiful male feaste I have one, he’s only about four or 5 inches. I am still hoping he’ll turn out to be a female. Do you know how soon they are distinguishable Darius because the females are so stunning aren’t they 👍🫠

[@havik7069]

Something tells me that they're small Jaguar cichlids are going to be the bosses when they get bigger

[@dwsdarius]

They are females so size and aggression is limited. If I had males, definitely.

[@sergiocorrea1235]

Wooow beautiful peces

[@HarrisonHanson-hy7or]

Meh I have a solid collection of SA cichlids but their honestly not all that beautiful & neither are these for the most part. I think I’d have to get into salt water fish for that more beautiful image.

[@MagnaRads]

That 350 looks great on camera gonna last a long time

[@MagnaRads]

There are also scratch sand paper kits you can use in a stocked aquarium