Great video and tips! And I use to keep electric yellow cichlids and found that rockwork mimicking their natural habitat always helped with aggression and overall health of the fishes. Beautiful tank and fish shots too!

Adding silver dollar dither fish to my central American tank changed the game! I added a red spotted severum to it and my blood parrot "who is the same size" would not leave him alone! Then I added the silver dollars and now it's a peaceful tranquility 😎 I love your guys tanks man. Your 180 is my inspiration

Fired Up Video!!! Thanks for these tips and info. Currently have mbunuas overstock 90 gallon with sump/canister filtration. Plan on setting up an American cichlids tank soon.

Not sure if you guys were watching but JVG gave you a shout out on ESPN. Nice job!

Beautiful fish and tanks 🙌🏻

Love the tips

I came for the Bros.®️ And the Bros came for us!!!!! Wonderful vid guys. You make the world and it’s waterways a better place.

Hi I've kept Malawi chichlids for over couple of decades I've had 300 gallon tanks and medium sized tanks at the moment I have a 5 x 18 x 18 with a few predators and smaller haps 14 fish in total with only a sand substrate I've had these fish together for a couple of years and I can tell you it's a peaceful tank with minimal fin damage I prefer my smaller tank love your uploads 🙂👍👍

All those tips are great advice. Ihave used rearranging tank to be very successful but usually on a temporary basis.The fact is a large enough tank will always greatly limit aggression and reduce though not eliminate predation.

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Thank you for this. It was very informative.

I do a water change every 7 to 10 days in my mbuna tank and rearrange the rocks as well.. It has done quite well for the aggression..

I’m about to take my first venture into a large freshwater set up. I have been a marine Aquarius for 26 years. Obviously many of the points you all made are consistent with fish weather marine or fresh. This tank is gonna be 650 gallons. Fish that I have interest in at this point are a shoal of Oscars, green terror, Jack Dempsey, severums, bichir and perhaps a black ghost knife. I would love your feedback on that list as well as any other fish to consider or possibly take off the list. Also not 100% sure on stocking levels especially when it comes to the Oscars. Really appreciate your guy’s channel!

Thank you for sharing

Great video. Very useful tips !!

Another really helpful video Cichlid bros! 👍🏻👌🏻 A quick question: I have just set up my 90g with (juveniles): 5 Geos, 3 Angles, 1 Eliot cochlid and 4 Acaras. So 11 fish in total. Would it be risky to add any more while I still have the 90g? What’s a safe number of 5-6’’ fish for the 90 given the fish will be in it probably 6 more months? I will be upgrading to a 180g (once our new house I built) at which point I’ll be adding fast growers like the Chocolate cichlid - which I think is an amazing looking water puppy! : )

Lovely tank, may I ask where did you get your plants from. Keep up the good work 👏

Awesome video

I dropped the water temp from 80 degrees to about 77 degrees and it def slowed down the aggressiveness. Not completely gone but a big difference

Question how does a cichlid know what itself look like?

I bought a pair of Blue Acaras to keep in a 75 gallon. The only other fish in the tank are a school or corys which mostly stay on the bottom. One Blue Acara constantly chases the other. It is so frustrating to watch. I'm almost at the point to get rid of the aggressive one.

What I found was, grow them up from babies all together and you’re usually ok

I got my eyes on a 120 gallon I’m definitely getting Jack Dempsey but what else should I put in there?With them

I have a central and south american tank currently set up and my firemouth goes after all the other fish unprovoked. I have added more hardscape and tall plants in hopes of the aggression subsiding..

Can i put together Geophagus Balzanii, Green terorr, El. Blue Acara, and parrot? Thank you. 🐟

i have a severum and a dark night ram in the same tank and they have been getting along until recently, today i noticed them fighting over an algae wafer on the bottom of the tank but even after the wafer was eaten they still would chase each other around the tank. the tank is a 75 gallon. any advice ? (edit) i also have tetras, rainbowfish, cory cats, a pleco and a festivum

Oscars, Severums? Agressive? haha. Not so much. I had a cichlid collection back in the day, in a 110g. Try finding tank mates for a Red Devil. One of the most interesting and beautiful fish, but as it got bigger there was no fish that could survive with it. I don't think any of these tips would have worked. It tried to kill me when I came to the tank; it would ram the glass and you could hear the crack as he smashed against it. So ornery.

Great tips! I believe all fish 🐠 have different personalities just like humans lol quite hard to predict when they go crazy 🤣..like my 9" flowerhorn is ok with the parrot fish but is bullying the hell out of the smaller Oscar pushing him to the corner ..and Oscar not eating for 2 Days now ..looks like I got to remove the Oscar asap ..😅

Wow I was just contemplating this issue as I realized my cichlids were breeding this morning. Guess my lfs will be getting some ladies soon as I figure it out

I’ve literally done everything except finding a new home for them and I have a baby green terror about 2 inches a fire mouth about 2 inches and a convict about 1inch and 3/4 in a 75 and there not getting along there’s marks on all three of them

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I have question about ph and water hardness. My area of the country has very hard water. My African Cichlids do really well. I would love a American Cichlid tank like yours. How do you manage the water parameter for ph and hardness. You have some species that have different requirements in the same tank? Thanks, Nat P.

can i add a pleco alage eater with a flowehorn?

How much do Jack Dempseys and Green Terrors dig and try to rearrange their surroundings?

Lol...Troy did you refer to the aggressor as the jerk?

My Convict Parrot Cichlids ate my dither fish. I had 10 Rosey Barbs. The Convict Parrots were eating 2-3 a night.

Hey i really hope you can help me here because I cant figure it out in google, i just got a Pseudotropheus socolofi and the people i bought it from said it was an omnivore but i keep seeing two different things either it’s just a herbivore or it’s a omnivore, can you please let me know what it actually is and what i should feed it/where i should buy it? Thanks so much been very stressed want to make sure he stays healthy

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What type of fake plants are those in the intro clip? They look great

It’s all about the species , Oscar’s and severums acara are semi aggressive, should not be kept with Red Devils, red terrors Black nasty, black belts these are nasty fish . I do agree large tanks with separate territories

I make a big school of cichlids so the nasty one can’t attack all of them.

I should have watched this video earlier……. I brought home a chiclid. To add. To my mbuna tank……. Next morning he was dead…… his tail was nipped off. Fins nipped off….. they must have bullied him chased him around all night……. Stress will kill

Have you ever tried edge decor with the center open? I did this recently and it totally reduced aggression and nipped fins: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7t0pLhhm6jSgoE.html

Nature does strange shit when placed in strange circumstances, when dealing with such things being a creature of habit will ensure you have no realisations at all beyond shared common knowledge learnt from another purely because you have been conditioned to never question anything your told.

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