Cichlid Care

Will my parrot fish have babies?

Kolton wants to know: I have a pair of tattooed Lipstick parrots and I have heard that they have to be crossed with another cichlid for them to hatch. I was wondering if anybody can tell me if this is true or not and if it is what kind of ciclids can put with them? [...]

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Cichlid Breeding?

Anonymous wants to know: I have a jewel cichlid and it looks like she is about to lay eggs. I don’t have any other jewel cichlids in that tank, but i do have other various types of African cichlids. If she does lay eggs will any of the other cichlids fertilize the eggs so there [...]

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When do dragon blood peacock cichlids let the babies out of their mouths?

little T wants to know: It’s been about 3 weeks since she started holding. I was going to put her in one of those breeder boxes and save some of the babies but I wasn’t sure when I’m supposed to put her in there. Please help I don’t want the babies to get [...]

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How old should Blue Acara Cichlids be when you give them to a pet shop?

Angela L wants to know: My pair of Blue Acara’s had babies and they are about 6 weeks old now. This is the first time they have had babies. At what age can you sell them?

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how long is an african cichlid pregnant?

jvmkml wants to know: my cichlid has babies in her mouth and she has been holding them for about 16-19 days. I can see the babies in her mouth as she cannot close it entirely. Just wondering when I should expect her to spit them out. They are already moving around in [...]

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what is the max capacity of 10gallon aquarium?

mustafa d wants to know: I have african zebra cichlids. they just had babies. I have probably 40 of them. they are getting big. what should I do?

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What should my temperature be for my Convicts?

Arya F wants to know: I have two African Convict Cichlids and i dont know what my water temp should be. It is set at 79 right now. Please help, they might have babies soon!

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What can i do for my fish. African Cichlid?

torresraulg wants to know: So i have had this fish for two years now. She had babies maybe more than twice(not sure). I woke up today and she was all bruised up. A whole side seemed she had scrapped herself against something or maybe the other fish beat her up really bad. She could barely [...]

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How many cichlids can you have in a 20 gallon tank?i have two firemouths in them right now?

Mr. Firemouth boy wants to know: i was planning of getting a Jack Dempsey. both firemouths are babies like 1-2 in, hoping two get a Jack dempsey same size. of course in the near future i would plann to move the fish as they grow up.Any suggestion, ideas or anything i need to know please [...]

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My mom has African Cichlids can they live with aquarium salt?

Christina K asked: How can you tell male from female? and they are like digging the rocks up around the walls of the aquarium why? And she has some kind of bottom feed in the tank its not an algae eater, can it have aquarium salt and if the cichlids decide to have babies will [...]

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