green terrors just brought. how to care?

[chase45]

just brought a pair from the pet shop. only 5cm. what environment should they be set up in? what foods any advice helpful

 

[cornbread_5]

they are not as aggressive as the name they eat pellets, flakes . bloodworms and krill, not hard to keep or take care of

 

[flyin lizard]

go to the CA/Sa cichlid forum lots of info for you there.
temps 76 to 80f
ph 7.0 ok

 

[Spiritwind]

Great fish, what size tank do you have? They will grow pretty big maybe 30cm for males. They would need 60 gallons at a bare minimum for an adult pair, if they turn out not to be a pair, and they really fight you will need bigger. Course either way bigger tank is better for them. And they eat pretty much everything.

 

[chase45]

my tank is 12 foot building it from ply. got them in a grow out tank. there only 10cm each

 

[japes]

You just said they were 5cm in the OP.

Shouldn't you have researched this before purchasing them?

Feed a good quality small pellet, I use and recommend Hikari Cichlid Staple, Cichlid Gold, and Cichlid Bio-Gold.

 

[Bderick67]

You just said they were 5cm in the OP.

Shouldn't you have researched this before purchasing them?

Feed a good quality small pellet, I use and recommend Hikari Cichlid Staple, Cichlid Gold, and Cichlid Bio-Gold.

this is what your best bet is.

 

[FSM]

good quality pellets and some frozen/freeze dried stuff occasionally. I use hikari gold, Frozen brine shrimp (BS LOL) and chopped worms from the garden. (except its winter so I haven't found any recently.

 

[killerfish]

so you know there known to be and useually are slow growers

 

[benzjamin13]

Pretty easy to keep cichlid. Excepts just about any food. Grows slow.