Excellent video, extraordinary fishes and lit music.

Super video!Je úžasné vidět některé druhy cichlid, které jsem kdysi odchovával v akváriích, volně ve své domovině.Diky. 👍

Schöne Verhaltensweisen bei der Brutpflege der Buntbarsche. Genial! Gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut. Sowas kennt man ja sonst nur vom Aquarium. (Die Musik habe ich allerdings nach einer halben Minute auf Null gezogen.)

Excellent job! I enjoyed every second.

maaan!those little ciclids are the babys of the large one??they are veryy cute!!

Well.... maybe some incredible extreme natural aquariums? Genius! Just Genius! I wish I was this smart! I'm lovin this. Please! Please! Give me some pieces of this! Incredible camera... aquariums... or not? This is master quality stuff. Absolutely the best I've seen in the sense of natural.

Hace 9 años de ese video, hermoso ver esos bellos peces en si estado natural! Un saludo desde Costa Rica!!

This is freakin awesome!!! Fantastic!!!

Stunning - great footage!

Incredibly genius! Obviously not an aquarium. I would love to know the techniques in filming so many wonderful fish. Simply amazing. Philua Fishfoods

Beautiful video! Thank you.

Fantastic. Is that a Blue Acara I see near the beginning? Love all that parenting. Damn it's tough to be a parent there with all those lurking mouths around. Think I saw some swordtails and convict cichlids too. Plus a variety of tetra species. My favourite was the black and white one, gorgeous whatever it was. This is a great video on how to furnish our aquariums, sand/wood/rocks, throw some leaves in for good measure ;)

Nice vid

i never see some of these cichlids till now, good job

Love ciclids

great footage. thank you

@zrudicka01 Is this video yours??? Do you know in which river from Panama was it shot???? Really cool!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

wow nice videos of the brooding process!!

belli una meraviglia

Lovely 😊

aww man, what is this Hypsophrys nematopus?!?! I want my Neetroplus nematopus back!!!!!

Very cool video. How did you shoot it? Were you swimming with the fish? I have cichlids and it's great to see them in their own habitat. Thanks!

...awesome document...

cool!

in about 9 weeks i am going to Costa Rica, i really hope i can see some cichlids there

Hi! Thanks. Yes, the first fish is from the Blue Acaras group. The name of Blue Acara is reserved for Andinoacara pulcher (formerly Aequidens), but there are three species hardly distinguishable in the Blue Acara group (Andinoacara pulcher, A. latifrons and A. coeruleopunctatus which is in the video). The "black and white" is Hypsophrys nematopus (formerly Neetroplus) and is called "Poor Man's Tropheus" pointing out the coloration typical to African genus Tropheus...:-)

Pure joy!

Great video! Nice fishes! Funny music. The other fishes beside the cichlids are not less interesting. There are salmons Astyanax and an other sort with red fins. What is it? In the part Costa Rica you can see a sort of Poecilia or Xiphophorus with various coloured dorsal fins. What is this? Would be very kind to tell me. I keep Xiphophorus heleri and X. variatus and Amatitlania. The viviparians are most interesting for me. Thank you for the nice film and some informations.

Love it..

great job and thanks for sharing. I did enjoy. Alex O

Hi, thanks! Fish at 2:12 is Tomocichla sieboldii and at 8:08 is Theraps irregularis. The name of the fish is always in the beginning of shots for the species.

excellent video, what type of molly is at 2:43? was there any plant life if so what type?

Hi, no, Green Terror is Andinoacara (formerly Aequidens) rivulatus from the pacific coast of South America (Peru and Ecuador). These are Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus from the group of Blue Acaras, the relatives belonging to the same genus...

Zuzana vase video je neskutocne. Velmi zavidim ak ste to filmovala sama. Popis ryb, lokalit, no prosto parada. K dokonalosti mozno chyba uz iba uplne presny popis lokality pre fajnsmekrov a milovnikov biotopov.

Very good video. But what were you thinking withnthe music. My god thats aweful

nice

Great video and thanks for sharing! In the Costa Rica chapter, can you identify those bright red and black finned mollies that seems to occasionally appear at 2:30 to 3:00 until the Dovii show up?

Precioso

would anybody know the species name of the mollinesia with red dorsal fin in the video at 2min 37secs?

cichlids are such an unknown species it amazes me, i only recently found out about them and am now officialy addicted! i now own 3 jewel cichlids (bimaculatus) one jack dempsey, and one very bad salvini male who is in a tank on his own as he almost killed poor jd

Wonderful! Can I ask where you filmed the Costa Rican biotope? Very nice work!

@GoliadX yes, it is mine, thank you:_). Shots from Panama originate in tributaries of the river Tuira (A. coeruleopunctatus and A. calobrensis), and from Chririqui province in north-west (T. sieboldii)..

wow! cool video, i´m from Panama, and i have a pair of cichlids, but don't know what kind are... looks like jack dempsey but small and colorless... someone can help me? greetings!

the fish at 7:31 is Vieja synspila (Pareneetroplus synspilus)

were all the other parrants for the babys

Hello Zuzina. 4.00. minutes, where is the Costa Rica, what kind of waters ? Which town ? Exactly where is this ? Do you remember ? Can you help me

great footage, thanks! Do you know if anybody breeds/sells the hypsophrys nematopus in CZ or SK?

Is that a green terror?

it is still Blue Acara, Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus...

Never seen the dude @-6:48 before?

awesome. but the music :DDDDD

what about salvadorean fishes?

The music 🙈😬

whats the fish at 0:21? i have one in my fish tank, haha

Really cool video! Love how Cichlid moms look after their young!! Check out my cichlid videos of my Electric Blue Johannis in my 60g tank...thanks.

Great vid.. but please change the music!? :)

Excelente video, asquerosa música!! 🙁

man cichlids breed like rabbits

I turned the music off!

Very nice fishes...horrible music.