My Cichla Room

[bassinmike85]

1x 300g Pond
2x 150g Ponds
1x 100g pond

All house cichla, some have other fish for now with cichla.

Will update this thread with more break down information and pictures and what my plans are with this cichla heaven

IG - cichlaguru
TIkTok - cichlaguru
YT - cichlaguru

 

[danotaylor]

Nice one mate!

 

[dr exum]

like the chair in the middle!

 

[bassinmike85]

like the chair in the middle!

it's really comfortable.

 

[bassinmike85]

Nice one mate!

thank you

 

[bassinmike85]

First Up 150g set up, Air pump/2 sponge filters and 2 heaters hooked up to a inkbird. This houses my 4 pinimas and orinos.



Next is my other 150g same set up just a different light. This one is holding my 1 eyed azul named frankenstein, another azul and my prized semi blind pinima named timmy.





Next is my 100g same as other set ups this one holds 10 temensis, 5 roayl siks or whatever they are calling these hybrids lol and my pair of geos. they were hard to get a picture of.


Last is my 300g powered and filtered by a pool filter/pump. i have temensis, kelberis, orinos, yellow fogos, geophagus, albino aro and a flagtail. i could be forgetting something.









Simple and easy set ups for now. sorry for delay to get everything posted.

 

[danotaylor]

Looking good mate. Quite the collection you have going there!

 

[bassinmike85]

Looking good mate. Quite the collection you have going there!

Thanks Bro. Hopefully some of these bass turn into pairs. Hoping to breed them in the future.

 

[danotaylor]

Sweet. I have heard raising Pbass from fry can be quite challenging. That their feeding requirements for healthy development are super high, and a lot of folks aren’t successful. Is that true Mike?
You seem to have cracked the code for raising juveniles to adulthood.
Is it true what I’ve heard about breeding and raising fry?
What’s your early stage feeding plan to overcome the fry raising challenge for success?
Cheers mate

 

[bassinmike85]

Sweet. I have heard raising Pbass from fry can be quite challenging. That their feeding requirements for healthy development are super high, and a lot of folks are successful. Is that true Mike?
You seem to have cracked the code for raising juveniles to adulthood.
Is it true what I’ve heard about breeding and raising fry?
What’s your early stage feeding plan to overcome the fry raising challenge for success?
Cheers mate

i have successfully bred cichla before. biggest thing was always having live brine shrimp available. i was doing water changes 3 times a day. 10-20% after each bbs feeding. better to keep the water pristine for the fry. keep water temp steady. no sudden big changes. once you get the understanding on how to care for cichla its a breeze. but defiantly a full time job taken care of the fry.