I am thinking about getting a new addition but I heard there very hard to keep anything I should know
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Thanks for all the good info I knew they were agressive and could claim 600 gal tanks but I did not know the diet or temp basically a heater is useless and room temp will be fine ?They can be difficult, less so, if you treat them with kid gloves.
They are not good with other fish, especially other cichlids in anything other than the largest tanks, say 300 gallons or so.
I got my first beani from baldtaxguy, and they died of ducklips in a summer heat wave (high 80sF).
I have found that they do best with temps in the high 60sF to low 70s, and can take temps much lower. I just pulled mine from my Wisconsin pond, where night water temps often dropped into the high 50s.
Although I have heard they are susceptible to bloat, I never had that problem, and credit it to low temp, low protein, and large every other day water changes (30%-40%)
Mine spawned at a temp around 68'F, and raised a number of fry, that seemed to be prone to killing each other starting at about 1".
They are kept separated from other cichlids, are fed pellets high in spirulina and low in protein.
Here's a female with fry
I've had the male for a little over 2 years, he is now in a 6 ft tank for the winter, divided from a female with eggcrate.