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Guapoteguy291

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So yesterday after doing some calling around I found a place that said they had some juvenile red devils. They agreed to hold them for me till I could get there. After an hour drive the guy leads me to a tank containing two red terrors they were true festae one female and one too small to tell. Wasted trip had to explain the difference to the guy but pretty sure he wasn't picking up what I was putting down.
 
This place has been in business since I've been in the hobby 10+ years at least. I'd say a good 80% of the tank space was to African rift lake species. I was like wow not much CA/SA anymore he says well that's what sells I'd rather sell 10 Africans for someone's tank than one ca/sa plus most people end up trying to return ca/sa and we don't want them. Africans are so much more colorful blah blah blah. Shows the direction the hobby is going and it's sad. Id take my tank down before stocking Africans.
 
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As popular as the Africans are I think many fish keepers end up transitioning to American cichlids sooner or later if they get more serious about the hobby. When I got back into fish keeping not long ago I was dead set on a tank full of mbuna due to how colorful they were and thought it would be silly to have my nice new 55 gallon acrylic tank stocked with only one fish. Once I saw a few full grown American cichlids that had colored up and saw how personable they seemed compared to the Africans I ended up getting a single male GT for the tank which I couldn't have imagined doing a few months earlier.
 
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I've been in the hobby about 4 years. Started with SA/CA. I'm in a few cichlid groups on Facebook, most posts are about Africans. So I figured what the hell, I'll set up a 90 gallon mbuna tank. I got it all done and stocked. Lots of color, lots of activity, but they were dumb as rocks. I'd sit and watch the same fish try and eat the same peice of poop for 20 minutes. Lasted about 2 months and I rehomed them and out a rd in the tank. I gave them a shot, but they aren't for me. If you want a decoration get Africans, if you want a pet get sa/CA. I'm very happy with my dovii and devil.
 
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MonsterFishCreeper said:
As popular as the Africans are I think many fish keepers end up transitioning to American cichlids sooner or later if they get more serious about the hobby. When I got back into fish keeping not long ago I was dead set on a tank full of mbuna due to how colorful they were and thought it would be silly to have my nice new 55 gallon acrylic tank stocked with only one fish. Once I saw a few full grown American cichlids that had colored up and saw how personable they seemed compared to the Africans I ended up getting a single male GT for the tank which I couldn't have imagined doing a few months earlier.
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Same with me except my first tank was angels and assorted tropical fish. The thought of wasting a whole tank for one fish was ridiculous to me. Now I have a 90 with a rd and a 360 with 6 small dovii(hoping for a pair).
 
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meh African Cichlids. African Riverine and Victorian species are the only ones I get excited for anymore, and Frontosas. I did the Mbuna thing and I feel the same way about them....about as exciting as watching paint dry
 
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