ELECTRIC BLUE ACARAS *A Full Fish Room Update!*

ELECTRIC BLUE ACARAS A Full Fish Room Update!

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Жыл бұрын

The Electric Blue Acaras are blossoming and showing GREAT COLOR in their new home. Let's check on them and how the rest of the fish room is doing after some recent changes. From the Chocolate Cichlids to the Red Terror, to the Betta and the Planted Community tank. Let's check them all out in this full Lap of the Fish Room!
Those who caught the Cichlids & Coffee live stream (7/22/23) and Patreon monthly channel supporters have already seen a first draft of this update. Here's the final video and I hope that all of you enjoy it!
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Lighting of the 300 gallon African Cichlid tank provided by JC&P, Hygger/AQQA and ABESTFISH full spec LED RGB.
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Пікірлер: 36

@MiguelJimenez-by9fh 5 ай бұрын

❤😊 Thanks Very healthy fishs I liked

@robertegan7080 Жыл бұрын

Nice clear video with excellent color with Blue Acar

@gandarafromda951 Жыл бұрын

Good morning chied

@dannyaquatics Жыл бұрын

Good morning hope your having a great day.

@paulneuman6021 Жыл бұрын

Good morning Ben 😊🐟🐠

@jc49fishniner4lif7 Жыл бұрын

I love all the tanks BUT my favorite is the 210👍👍💯 definitely my dream thank

@walterotiepka1460 Жыл бұрын

I have 4 electric blues in my 125 and they all get along a great fish that I find to b very peaceful

@opethmike Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful fish room, Ben.

@BenOchart Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀👍🏻

@Whips_World 11 ай бұрын

Red looks like hes doubled in size since making the trip south 😮

@BenOchart 11 ай бұрын

He's happy having his own condo, LOL

@tetraguytx1705 Жыл бұрын

I also have an electric blue acara (one) in a planted tank full of tetras. Even though I did a lot of research before putting him in the tank, I was still apprehensive about adding a cichlid to a community tank. But he's been in there for months and it's worked out just fine. Electric blue acaras seem to be a lot of fun. They have personality; they're very bratty "water puppies." (And no, he doesn't dig up the plants.)

@BenOchart Жыл бұрын

Yes, acts like a mini-Oscar, playing on the glass and more or less ignoring the tank mates.

@Elysian777 Жыл бұрын

@@BenOchart As long as it's a solo Acara never a problem. Note the school of glass cats and there are some 'accidental' guppies that were a netting accident with a female guppy. I couldn't catch her so ...but they ended up providing live food for the bigger guys in here and I would snag what I could at feeding time- was able to keep the population to about 6. Acara's are big puppies as long as they aren't breeding. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7uHY5yfutPcj58.html

@josephgadway8950 Жыл бұрын

Another great update, I always enjoy your gorgeous fish and tanks! Thank you

@bruce_lero1 Жыл бұрын

Until now, I never compared the activity/shenanigans in an all-male Malawi tank to those that occur in prisons.. 🤔 😂

@BenOchart Жыл бұрын

LOL! For a pack of cigs the Boss will leave you alone🤣🤣🤣

@pathornell7149 11 ай бұрын

Hi Ben I just have a thought for you and your members. Some may already be doing this. I have been watching many videos on doing maintenance on the fx filter family with purge valves. All videos show that water comes out from the valves when removed. Well, what I like to do is remove some water first using the purge valve. When some water is removed this way first, there is no water that splashes out from the top and saves you having to clean up using towels. We will be moving into a carpeted condo and I loved using this procedure when your tank is sitting on carpet. It really works. I hope you try it and give us your opinion on this first step before removing your aqua valves. Cathy

@BenOchart 11 ай бұрын

I stopped using the purge valve because it would wear out and leak ( plus I had to get the canister elevated so water would flow out ). Now I keep my FX-6 in a Rubbermaid tub, so a little water is not a big deal. On carpet I would certainly keep any canister in a tub and use a water alarm, like the Watchdog I show in several of my videos.

@WaterBoysofCFL Жыл бұрын

I have found the EB Acaras to be super friendly unless they are guarding their babies. I started with 4 of them about a year and a half ago in my 150g, I've lost count of how many I have right now but I have around 40 and I've given a few away. I also have green severums, clown loaches, pictus , blood parrots, about 5 bristlenose plecos and Nicaraguan cichlids. I live stream that tank and a shrimp tank every day from 8am est to 8pmest.

@kevinestefan2807 2 ай бұрын

If you start seeing some neon tetras and rummy nose disappear it's because of the Acara 😢 happened to me lol

@BenOchart Ай бұрын

I got them out of there pretty early on.

@kathleendircks5577 3 ай бұрын

First off, your fish are exceptionally beautiful ❤ I would like to get back into this more educated. But I just want one big tank and some species specific smaller ones… and that’s it. But what I see on KZfaq, the most successful aquarists are always moving fish around and re- aquascaping a whole aquarium… Can I get into this and just maintain a few dissimilar aquariums without constantly moving or redoing fish or aquariums?

@BenOchart 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Sometimes we have to move things around for compatibility but often KZfaq content creators are obsessively moving things around to create new content.

@mattbatcher802 Жыл бұрын

The red terror was ganged up on. He would have overcome that and then gone on a reign of terror, but it worked out cause he got taken out. Just another level of violence over the chocolate or Oscars, the salvini is on a similar level, but female.

@antik_adam 9 ай бұрын

What is the Nicaragua fish you mention in tbe oscar tank?

@razinfishes1918 Жыл бұрын

Ben Just this week I had to remove my Electric Blue Acaras from my 180 gallon they actually killed one of my Uaru cichlids that are 3 to 4 times their size. I haven't seen these little guys ever be aggressive and then all of a sudden they decided to be major butt head. I didn't know at first why My Uaru was dead and all beat up never had any aggression issues in my tank. So kept a watch for the next couple days and there it was the EBA where beating up on my other 3 Uaru's so They had to be moved.

@BenOchart Жыл бұрын

Are they paired up and trying to breed?

@razinfishes1918 Жыл бұрын

@@BenOchart they were a pair. But they haven't breed in this tank for over 8 or 9 months. They breed in my 75 gallon but not in the 180. As they were the smallest fish in the tank approx 3 inches. Where all my Sevrums, Uaru's are 7 to 8 inches then 5 large silver dollars. Not sure why they went psycho but each fish have there own personality. I removed the male and left the female now I have peace again.