I have a yellow with black horizonal stripes. One of them has started to turn gray. He started to have electric blue between his black stripes. Have you or any of the guys know if this is normal or are they sick? Thanks for your help.
Hutch
Many of my fish lose there color, half there color the front will be ok and the back half is barly there…what’s up?
I have two African Cichlids that were kissing and then swimming around in circles…Are the kissing or fighting?
I have an African Cichlids, but so some reasons she is head down in the tank . And I dont know why ? Is she sick ? She is just face first into the pebbles, but she is still breathing ??
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I have two cichlids already, and i believe they are mating,i just recently bought another cichlid and put it in the tank, the fish are very agressive to the new fish, will this change? Is it okay that i put this fish in there.
i have had an african cichlids that is about 2 in. long for about 3 yrs. he was not eating and i noticed his “throat” was a bit swollen. i looked in his tank today and noticed about 8 brown pellets. i took them out and they were soft. when i crushed one is was [...]
The most common problems from a beginner cichlid hobbyist is identifying if there cichlids is male or female. It is difficult or even impossible to identify the gender of non breeding individuals. As a fish lover, we would like to know if our cichlid is male or female but it is not easily to differentiate [...]
I was wondering why the fish “shake and vibrate”? I just got my tank and the fish are amazing.
The introduction of the predatory Nile perch (Lates niloticus L.) into lakes of the Lake Victoria basin (East Africa) has coincided with the decline or disappearance of hundreds of indigenous fishes. Densely vegetated, hypoxic wetlands may protect prey species by limiting Nile perch exploitation; however, chronic hypoxia may also limit colonization by threatened fishes. We [...]
Color pattern is a central feature of cichlid fish behavior and evolution. Hues from red to yellow to blue, in conjunction with stripes and bars, decorate cichlid bodies in a bewildering array of species-specific combinations. The brightest and gaudiest individuals are usually male. Cichlid colors are believed to confer mate recognition signals and are thought [...]
