Ours have been alright up until recently. The Festae isn't trying to kill them just yet, but he's pestering them more than normal. They have bonded with each other and team up on the Festae when he gets ornery.
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Ours have been alright up until recently. The Festae isn't trying to kill them just yet, but he's pestering them more than normal. They have bonded with each other and team up on the Festae when he gets ornery.
Ours have been alright up until recently. The Festae isn't trying to kill them just yet, but he's pestering them more than normal. They have bonded with each other and team up on the Festae when he gets ornery.
Thanks good to know there is some hope for it to work. I am raising 4 oscars at the moment hoping a pair will form and will rehome the other two. I plan to reintroduce the male festae in a month or two and see if it goes any better. He is completely chill to other american cichlids....
He's chill for now. Ours was pretty tame and didn't bother anyone until he went into breeding dress for the first time. All bets were off after that. We can't keep anything smaller than he is, or anything that looks even remotely similar to him. He's kind of a pain...
It will show similar colors but not as intense as breeding dress.
Now granted my fish are paired so there is always a male and female together and that in itself may improve their colors, but even then you can definitely see the difference once they start to spawn.
My profile pic is my male on an ordinary average day. They were not spawning when that picture was taking.
Now granted my fish are paired so there is always a male and female together and that in itself may improve their colors, but even then you can definitely see the difference once they start to spawn.
My profile pic is my male on an ordinary average day. They were not spawning when that picture was taking.
Planning on purchasing single juvenile festae in 125gallon juvenile tank. (Jag, breidohri, argentea, carpintis and Cuban ) and eventually moving them all to 350gallon 8ft tank. Should I get the festae smaller then the rest or bigger? Thoughts/experience
The Festae is a slower grower than majority of the other species you have mentioned.
I personally wouldn’t mix the fish that you have listed. 1. The Festae is a South American species and the rest are Central American, 2. The N. Tetracanthus (cuban cichlids) does not have to compete with other cichlids in their natural enivorinment so I personally have found them not to do well with other cichlids and to be easily stressed/ out competed for food. Even in a 350G tank it is not 100% that this mix will work. The species you listed are known for their aggression and depending one male/females if two pair up and attempt to spawn you will be looking at major aggression issues.
Agree with the above.
To put it anthropomorphically....putting those species together is like taking the most alpha gang leaders of Cuba, Mexico, Honduras or Ecuador etc etc cramming them together in a tiny cell and expecting them to sit around and sing Guantanamera..
As I mentioned 125gallon then 350gallon 8ft tank!. It comes down to : Tank size and the individual fish ?
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