Top 5 Tank Mates for African Cichlids

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Cichlid Bros

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@CreedBratton905 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information. Great video and cool fish.👍

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@zanelampen5288 6 ай бұрын

Awesome list, for something with a bit of presence that will usually hide but demand attention when he's out is a knife fish! My black ghost is about two years old and lives in my African cichlid tank. He smashes the cichlid pellets that sink to the bottom, is big enough to not be messed with, but not so big that when he's doing night patrols he won't harass your cichlids. Hides in his log during the day unless he smells food, and just beautiful to observe his hypnotic swimming style!

@heatherrose92 8 ай бұрын

I just love the cichlid bros! You guys are awesome. Y’all are very helpful

@CichlidBros 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@cichlidman559 Жыл бұрын

I've had good luck with YoYo loaches very active swimmers and good in schooling as well!

@kendrixburriss2121 Жыл бұрын

Same I keep them with my Mbuna and never had a issue

@loganhiatt6101 Жыл бұрын

You have a beautiful tank

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@PULAG Жыл бұрын

I caught wild baby bluegill from the lake and put in with a Jack Dempsey and peacock cichlid and they go together very well

@RyanDahn Жыл бұрын

Another one I think that's unique and can be hit or miss but generally works out for the most part: Blue Lobster/Crayfish. It's a great pop of blue and the african cichlids are generally fast enough to escape any pinching from the crayfish.

@richardmossy5540 Жыл бұрын

You dudes are so awesome.

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@chardaewilson7214 Күн бұрын

I've had really good luck with sengal bichirs with my mbuna

@davejenkins4534 10 ай бұрын

I love that there are Plecos that could work with MBunas. I would love 2 im my tank. Which ones is still to be decided.

@gsellis 4 ай бұрын

You are right, Clown loaches should be nbr 1. What you missed that I have had off and on since the 1970's are Giant Danios. Great dither fish and no issues at all.

@CreedBratton905 Жыл бұрын

Btw, I was planning to get a 75 gallon tank with 5 geophagus tapajos, 1 or 2 severums, and 1 or 2 electric blue acaras. Is there anything else I could put in the tank?

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Maybe Bristlenose plecos or bottom dweller

@CreedBratton905 Жыл бұрын

@CichlidBros Alright, Thank You so much.😊

@CreedBratton905 Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros Also, how many electric blue acaras and severums should I put in there? Should I do 2 of each or 1 of each, or 1 severum and 2 electric blue acaras, or 2 severums and 1 electric blue acara?

@tonyarrington8364 Ай бұрын

For me, fire eels, African brown knife fish, and birchirs works super well in my tanks

@StevenBennett-o9z Жыл бұрын

I keep giant danios with my mbuna and they go together perfectly brings the mbuna out of the rock more

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Good option for mbuna! Maybe slightly less so for peacocks/haps

@cajanir Жыл бұрын

I keep Electric Blue Acara in my mixed Mbuna tank with no issues. People often worry about mixing South American and African cichlids due to water parameters, but IMO that's probably not an issue if you're keeping locally bred rather than wild caught fish.

@ronharper4001 10 ай бұрын

It's all in keeping them well fed.

@Ashley-vs1xh Жыл бұрын

Hi currently have Acara, sev, rainbow cichlids. I'm really wanting mbuna but can't have another tank. Would you say it's do able to have the more peaceful mbuna (yellow labs, acei ect) be ok? Providing I balance that diet??

@johndoll8539 Жыл бұрын

I've had good luck mixing Denison barbs with my African cichlids

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Interesting choice if you can get it to work 🤙🏼

@AnointedMinds_CoachMalachi 10 ай бұрын

Great video as always guys. If I were to get that school of clown loaches you were talking about, the 6 or 7, being that they do get up there in size what size tank would you say I need if I added them to an African cichlid tank?

@CichlidBros 10 ай бұрын

I’d recommend a 125g or larger. Clown loaches do grow slowly tho!

@turtleguy485 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you said clown loaches! I have a school of clown loaches in my peacock tank and love it!

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@bryanw3233 9 ай бұрын

I have some larger Buenos aires tetras (6) about 18 months old or so with 2 mbuna and 2 cory catfish over 2 inches and they all get along fine. It's a 60 gallon 4 foot long. If anything the mbuna see me and fly at each other. Very rarely.

@mdfaizan2412 Жыл бұрын

I am big fan bro 😊

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Thanks for following!

@OGBarry16 7 ай бұрын

Could bigger rainbow fish go well with yellow labs?

@LamontEverage Ай бұрын

How big is the tank behind you and what kind of cichlids are they ?

@fredlesson 2 ай бұрын

I keep one rainbow shark with my mbunas, it works well, and they are also algae eater

@CichlidBros 2 ай бұрын

That's a decent option. Should work most of the time

@Trill_life 6 ай бұрын

How many red tails can you put into a tank with them?

@vnukvelesov Жыл бұрын

Красивые рыбы 🐠👍🔥

@MrEvilmitch 11 ай бұрын

I have the Synodontis Multipunctatus in my Mbuna tank they get bigger than petricola though

@ranjanty 10 ай бұрын

Hey Guys, I have a 55 all mbuna tank and was wanting to get a bottom dweller. My problem is the mbuna stay on the bottom too. They rarely get above 6 inches from the bottom. They wont come to the top when I feed, they wait until the food gets close to the bottom before they go after it. Is this normal for mbuna? I find them to be skiddish also.

@desmondjohnson412 Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@miguelcintron7048 Жыл бұрын

I love ❤️ how my petricola looked in my African Cichlids tank , I had 6 in my 220 and I got caught them eating the slime coat of my Malawi Hawk and it was dead a week later. I thought 💭 it was odd since I had them a few years and never seen it before and a month later caught them doing it to another fish and pulled them out and gave them to my LFS

@HajiSaleemUddin 2 ай бұрын

Can keep electric ell

@undyingtricstar8390 Жыл бұрын

how do you not get algae on your decor?

@beat_2008 Жыл бұрын

All cichlids can go along with each other, the only thing you need to look for is age of the fish and the aggression level like if convicts and jewel are semi, they can live but if its like a convict and an auratus, then that should be taken into consideration

@kylemendoza8860 11 ай бұрын

What are some Good loaches for a peacock tank?

@CichlidBros 11 ай бұрын

clown loaches

@tearthemtoshreds8037 Жыл бұрын

I recently set up an mbuna tank. I heard that plecos can live together with mbuna so I dropped my pleco into the mbuna tank. But it seems that mbunas are nipping at the plecos fins and causing considerable damage. So at this point I'm guessing my only option is to take the pleco out. Is there anything I could be doing wrong possibly? Everyone else's plecos seem to be doing fine with african cichlids.

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Possibly adding a few more small areas to hideout for the pleco. Sometimes it just won’t work out though

@ianm659 Жыл бұрын

Try bristle nose pleco

@tcchilling2511 Жыл бұрын

Can we put mbuna with bichirs?

@CichlidBros Жыл бұрын

Full grown bichirs might eat the mbuna unless they are adult size

@faizy1808 7 ай бұрын

can we add red tail catfish

@CichlidBros 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t

@DjPosey3 Жыл бұрын

I tried , that rainbow,convict,eb acara,gold saum, gold garami, Honduran red point and they all got shredded up! I currently have a blood parrot and Salvini that's doing fine, My firemouth is struggling and my Nicaraguan is either a serious bully in some of my tanks or gets his but kicked in another tank so I can't find a good fit for him so I currently have him in a 40g Hexagon by himself.. Finnaly got my hands on a few clown loaches That i thought would do fine in my 55g juvie tank but 2 of them disappeared within 5 hours