Experienced Pbass hobbyists
- Thread starter SOKO
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nice that you are building a 400g
It's going to be hard but you got a few month's maybe even three. That tank is super small! LOL. But as for the timidness. Cichla need space to roam when young the need a lot of cover. So you should add some DW if you can. Also is this tank sitting in high traffic area?
DW - drift wood. Because the tank sit's in high traffic area there going to need to have a lot of cover to feel comfortable. 
Hey SOKO,
You might want to try and give them pellets or frozen bloodworms. It'll be a pain to try to get these guys off feeders if they get used to it too much. And if you feed them pellets, they will recognize you and come out to greet you more than hide. With feeders, they will hunt and don't really look at you as a food source. Also, besides Dithers, the more the merrier with Pbass
But I do agree that the 37g is small, so just make sure you're keeping up on those water changes and provide good filtration for healthy Pbass.
You might want to try and give them pellets or frozen bloodworms. It'll be a pain to try to get these guys off feeders if they get used to it too much. And if you feed them pellets, they will recognize you and come out to greet you more than hide. With feeders, they will hunt and don't really look at you as a food source. Also, besides Dithers, the more the merrier with Pbass
But I do agree that the 37g is small, so just make sure you're keeping up on those water changes and provide good filtration for healthy Pbass.It sounds like your tank is definitely cycling. Based on the reading, I would say that it is about half way there. If you could get some media from an established filter and put that in a cheese cloth bag or filter bag and then into your tank, that would go a long way to cycling your tank faster. That's what I did and it cycled my 300ish gallon tank in about 8 days from scratch. That's my two bits.
